KINGDOM COME

JAY-Z
KINGDOM COME

1. Prelude - (produced by Ghettobot)

2. Oh My God - (produced by Just Blaze)

3. Kingdom Come - (produced by Just Blaze)

4. Show Me What You Got - (produced by Just Blaze)

5. Lost One - (featuring Chrissette Michelle, produced by Dr Dre)

6. Do You Wanna Ride - (featuring John Legend, produced by Kanye West)

7. 30 Something - (produced by Dr Dre)

8. I Made It - (produced by Dr Dre)

9. Anything - (featuring Usher and Pharrell, produced by Neptunes)

10. Hollywood - (featuring Beyonce, produced by Scyience)

11. Trouble - (produced by Dr Dre)

12. Dig A Hole - (featuring Sterling Simms, produced by Swizz Beatz)

13. Minority Report - (featuring Ne-YO, produced by Dr Dre)

14. Beach Chair - (featuring Chris Martin, produced by Coldplay)

Jay-Z is back from "retirement" with a new album packed with guest appearances from Beyonce, Usher, Pharrell Williams, John Legend and producers such as Just Blaze, Dr. Dre, Kanye West and The Neptunes.
The album itself is not bad at all, at first listen, and improves the more you hear it. A lot of credit goes out to the producers and artists as they really helped to make this a good album. Which I'm sure is what Jay-Z intended.

MY ALBUM RATING: 7/10

Catch the video of the first single 'Show Me What You Got' in the Musik Media Section

Casino Royale

I thought it was about time to include some films in the blog. I begin with the new James Bond film of Casino Royale. James is played by Daniel Craig who doesn't seem like the typical James Bond. Despite beating Clive Owen and Colin Farell to the role, he was greeted with an anti-Craig protests because of his 'ugly non-James Bond look'.

In my opinion the film is actually very good. To my surprise from start to finish it was action packed with car chases and explosion following the trend of other 007 movies. But this had a touch of 21st century and looked amazing. As for Daniel Craig, he was a very convincing actor pulling of a lot of athleticism and quiet frankly looked good for the part.

My Rating: 8/10

AKON - KONVICTED

AKON

KONVICTED

1. Shake Down

2. Blown Away (feat. Styles P)

3. Smack That (feat. Eminem)

4. I Wanna Love You (feat. Snoop Dogg)

5. Rain

6. Never Took the Time

7. Mama Africa

8. I Can't Wait

9. Gangsta Bop

10. Tired of Runnin'

11. Once in a While

12. Don't Matter

Akon returns with the new album Konvicted after his success with his debut album Trouble. The album features Eminem in the the first single 'Smack That' and Snoop Dogg in his second single 'I Wanna Love You'. It also sees the return of Styles P who featured in his debut single Locked Up.

I actually like this album, nice beats and productions with some nice choices guest appearances. It has a couple of slow tracks which we know he can do following 'Lonely' from his first album

MY ALBUM RATING: 7/10

SMACK THAT (REMIX) - AKON (FEAT. FAT JOE, BUSTA RHYMES, CHINGY) 8/10

Catch the video in the MUZIK MEDIA section

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This would include music videos, music streaming.
I may also include film trailers or anything I find interesting so keep visiting for updates...

FAT JOE (FEAT. LIL WAYNE) - MAKE IT RAIN

FAT JOE (FEAT. LIL WAYNE) - MAKE IT RAIN

Appearances from DJ Khaled, Scott Storch, P. Diddy, Birdman, Terror Squad

Listen to the remix with Trina in the Muzik Media Section on the left hand side

Fat Joe - Me, Myself and I

Fat Joe

Me, Myself and I

1. Pendemic (Prod. By Streetrunner)

2. Damn (Prod. By L.V.)

3. The Profit (w/ Lil' Wayne) (Prod. By DJ Khaled)

4. No Drama (Clap & Revolve) (Prod. By The Runners)

5. Breathe And Stop (w/ The Game) (Prod. By Nu Jerzey Devil)

6. She's My Mama (Prod. By Streetrunner)

7. Make It Rain (w/ Lil' Wayne) (Prod. By Scott Storch)

8. Jealousy (Prod. By L.V.)

9. Think About It (Prod. By Scott Storch)

10. Hard Not To Kill (Prod. By L.V.)

11. Bendicion Mami (Prod. By Streetrunner)

12. Story To Tell (Prod. By DJ Khaled)

Once again the main single 'Make it Rain' is produced by Scott Storch, the song is quiet catchy with Lil Wayne doing the Chorus. The video is a typical hip hop video with money, "bling" and of course women. It has several guest appearances from DJ Khaled, Birdman and P. Diddy.

This Album is really not bad at all. It doesn't have a lot of other artist featuring in the songs apart from Lil Wayne and The Game. Production wise StreetRunner & Grind Music each do 3 songs, Scott Storch & DJ Khaled do 2 songs each and The Runners and Nu Jerzey Devil each do a track.

MY ALBUM RATING: 8/10

UK TALENTS

Left To Right: Ghostt, Alizay, Keisha White, Soundbwoy Ent, Cassius Henry, Boya Dee

The UK has really developed this a lot in the past few years, and although many still don't have record deals, they are producing some really nice stuff. Different Genres including R&B and Grime have really blown up and with the launch of ChannelU and help with myspace, these artist have been able to promote themselves.


Click on the artist name above to visit their websites.

Listen and Watch Songs upcoming soon... stay tuned

URBAN NEWS

Jacob & Co. Sues Scarface

Jacob, the Jeweler, known as Arabo has filed a lawsuit against the Legendary Houston rapper Scarface over items purchased a few years back. The lawsuit thought to be around $37,000 in compensation for payments that was due from Scarface. The court case comes after Arabo, was arrested in June on charges that the jeweler had assisted Detroit's Black Family Mafia launder more than $270 million. The case continues...

http://www.hiphopgame.com/news.php3?id=1454

THE GAME

In other news The Game showed he doesn't need 50 Cent or Dr Dre to sell albums. His second album, The Doctor's Advocate sold 358,988 copies, topping the charts but selling 200,000 less than his debut album, The Documentary. Akon debuts at #2 with more than 286k for his Konvicted album on SRC/Universal Motown.

http://www.hiphopgame.com/news.php3?id=1459

Chingy: Hoodstar

Chingy's album Hoodstar includes Pulling Me Back F/ Tyrese and his next single Dem Jeans.

To be honest overall im not a fan of this album, its similar to his old album with the beats being slightly better. But with every album theres are always "the likeable" songs.

-> Dem Jeans
Apart from the excellent array of women in the video, the song is just a typical Chingy song which I can say is decent. Although it was nice of him to release a fans only video...

Check out the videos here:

Dem Jeans
Dem Jeans (fans only version)

Check out his myspace for other songs

ALBUM RATING: 6.5/10

My First Post!

WELCOME TO MUZIK

This is my first test post, i hope to have the blog up and ready in a few days fully updated. I'll be posting my interests in music including UK, US R&B, Hip Hop New & Old.
And also some of the Latest Films.