Now that Jay-Z’s BP3 tour is all wrapped up, Billboard Boxscore reports that within a two week span (March 11-24) Jigga’s traveling circus pulled in $9,731,218. The second tour to promote the album included Jeezy and Trey Songz, kicked off last February and made eight of the top 35 shows this year. That’s big business. The Boom Box
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Miss Info comes through with yet another leak from La Flare’s street album, The Burrrprint 2 HD. Gotti and Ricky are on board and Schife Karbeen‘s on the boards. In other news, Ross plans to drop his official single “Super High” for Teflon Don this Monday.
It’s Wednesday and if you’ve been keeping up, you know what that means. This week, Russell and, um, Russell take a ride in the Maybach. You want an autograph? Previously: Ep. 1 l Ep. 2 l Ep. 3
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In the wake of VIBE‘s producer tournament, this popped up in the inbox. Upcoming producer Shy Guy remixed the theme songs from old James Bond movies for his new instrumental tape, Beats, James Beats. If you like what you hear, you can download it here or on his website. Ian Fleming would be proud.
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Unemployment’s on the rise, but that hasn’t affected Lil Wayne. Weezy’s baby mama, Toya Johnson told US Weekly that while the rapper serves his year-long sentence at Rikers Island, his job is to supervise suicidal inmates. “He watches the crazy prisoners and makes sure they don’t kill themselves. He likes the job even though they don’t pay him much.” Anyone else feel like dying? HHNM via Rollingstone
During Ryan Leslie’s set at Hampton University last week, he brought out Virginia native Pusha T for a surprise performance of “Popular Demand”. R Lez makes one helluva hypeman, man. Karen Civil
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