According to HITS Daily Double, Kanye West’s ‘Graduation’ will take the top Billboard spot with a first-week total of about 930k. 50 Cent’s “Curtis” tallies about 660k, landing in the Number Two spot.

50 Cent is accusing Def Jam of ‘rigging’ sales for Kanye West’s ‘Graduation’ after the pair battled it out for top Billboard spot. Kanye, who has already outsold 50′s ‘Curtis’ in the UK, is tapped to topple the Queens-bred rapper in the States at finally count on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

50 CENT and LIL’ KIM are being sued for $2 million by a record producer who says the rappers failed to pay the royalties on their track MAGIC STICK. Carlos Evans says he was employed by Rotten Apple Records to produce, engineer and mix the song in 2003, but has never received a payment. The lawsuit, filed at Manhattan Supreme Court in New York on Thursday, claim the track was originally intended for 50 Cent’s Get Rich Or Die Tryin album, but was instead used by Atlantic Records on Lil’ Kim’s La Bella Mafia. Evans says, “It was one of the hottest tracks on that album, and I didn’t collect my royalties.”

50 Cent and Kanye West continued their friendly rivalry on ‘BET 106 & Park’ on Tuesday. Early projections have Kanye’s ‘Graduation’ outselling 50 Cent’s ‘Curtis’ LP. Read the rest of this entry »

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