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Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 8/16/2009

Slaughterhouse scans just under 20,000 while T.I. comes 300 units short of double-platinum, and BEP rocks on.

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Exclusive Details Emerge On R. Kelly's September Album

HipHopDX attended a listening session and dinner for the Untitled album at R. Kelly's house. Get the scoop.

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Death Row To Produce Film, Sons 2 The Grave

The brand that brought out Murder Was The Case hopes to do it again 15 years later with film in pre-production.

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Freddie Foxxx Covers Urban Biker, Co-Hosts Radio Show

Exclusive: Bumpy Knuckles talks about his motorcycle club's expansion and deejaying on De La Soul's weekly radio show.

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Arrest Made In Trae Day Shootings

19 year-old Albert Walker Mondane turned himself in for firing shots into a crowd at the June honorary event.

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K-Salaam & Beatnick Revolutionize The Free Album

Exclusive: With Where The Streets Have No Name, getting six-figure downloads, the duo is on the album sponsorship frontier.

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Parkbench Studies: The Graveyard

How Koch Records/E1 Entertainment resurrected itself in 2009, with help from Slaughterhouse, M.O.P., Slim Thug and the Wu.

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Kool Keith Talks 50 Unreleased Tracks, Experimentation

Exclusive: The pioneering emcee talks about his Lost Masters collection, new material, and Michael Jackson.

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Britain's Nathan Official Talks Album, R&B Climate

Exclusive: The UK award-winning R&B sensation tells DX why '09 is the ideal time to crack the US market.

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East Flatbush Project Unveils Full Length LP

Exclusive: Spencer Bellamy unveils "Tried By 12" and many more, almost a decade later, talking R&B transition.

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Wendy Day & Kim Ellis Launch 'In The Know' Seminars

Exclusive: Two respected industry vets take expensive Rap industry seminars, and move to affordable online technology.

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The Breakestra Dedicates Next Album To DJ Dusk

Exclusive: Miles Tackett explains how DJ Dusk influenced this album's sound, almost 4 years since his untimely death.

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Blu, Johnson & Jonson Release Instrumentals

Blu and Mainframe offer instrumentals of their acclaimed '08 album, with three never-before-heard cuts.

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Moka Only Explains New Album Sequel, Battle Axe

Exclusive: The B.C. veteran explains Lowdown Suite 2, writing rhymes by the river, and remembers Battle Axe.

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Final Big Pun Recordings To Release In September

With the DVD release of Big Pun: The Legacy, a soundtrack drops with new tracks.

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FREE DOWNLOAD: Broken Headphones by QuESt

HipHopDX, 2DopeBoyz, and IllRoots premier the mixtape download from underground favorite QuESt.

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Copywrite Explains MHz Re-Release To Support Camu Tao

Exclusive: Copywrite tells DX about the late Camu Tao, and re-releasing Table Scraps, and his new LP.

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Brother Ali Joined By Freeway, Joell Ortiz On New LP

Exclusive: Ali tours with Evidence, and confirms Chuck D, Free and Joell on "Us."

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Producer Jesse West Does Childrens Rap Series

Exclusive: The producer of hits for KRS-One, Biggie and Xzibit makes a series of Hip Hop-inspired Children's albums.

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Tracklisting & Guests For Slaughterhouse's Album Posted

Amazon has posted a tracklisting for the album, Pharoahe Monch, Novel and Fatman Scoop are guests.

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Bobbito Garcia Hired As Executive To Project 2050

The author, deejay, publisher and record exec finds his next career in advertising, working with elite brands of the culture.