Fiyah 5'z: The Best & Worst Of 2009

Best Albums
1) Jay-Z - Blueprint 3
2) Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Links II
3) Clipse - Till The Casket Drops
4) Asher Roth - Asleep In The Bread Aisle
5) Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap

Honorable Mention
Slaughterhouse - Slaughterhouse
Method Man & Redman - Blackout! 2
Joe Budden - Padded Room
Eminem - Relapse
Trick Daddy - Finally Famous: Born A Thug, Still A Thug

Best Mixtapes
1) J. Cole - The Warm Up
2) Drake - So Far Gone
3) Joell Ortiz - Road Kill
4) Styles P - Phantom Empire
5) Lil Wayne - No Ceilings

Honorable Mention
Lloyd Banks - 4-30-09
Saigon - All In A Days Work
Joell Ortiz - Covers The Classics
Busta Rhymes - I Bullshit You Not
dead prez - Pulse Of The People (Turn Off The Radio Vol. 3)

Worst Albums
1) Pretty Ricky - Pretty Ricky
2) Gucci Mane - The State Vs. Radric Davis
3) Twista - Category F5
4) Sean Kingston - Tomorrow
5) KiD Cudi - Man On The Moon

Dishonorable Mention
DJ Paul - Scale-A-Ton
Mike Jones - The Voice
Flo Rida - R.O.O.T.S.
Busta Rhymes - Back On My B.S.

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Thursday Billboard Update - 11/26/09

Wow, not only did 50 Cent not grab the #1 spot, but he couldn't manage numbers 2, 3, or 4 either. Debuting at #5 is 50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct with 161,200 sold (I believe I called that). The sales reign for 50 is over.

The man who actually does get to sit atop the Billboard 200 is John Mayer as his Battle Studies pushes 286,000 out the store.

Jay-Z's Empire State Of Mind with Alicia Keys hangs onto the #1 spot for another week after seeing gains in airplay, sales, and online streaming.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. John Mayer - Battle Studies (1)
2. Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas (2-2)
3. Norah Jones - The Fall (3)
4. Casting Crowns - Until The Whole World Hears (4)
5. 50 Cent - Before I Self Destruct (5)
6. Justin Bieber - My World EP (6)
7. Michael Jackson - This Is It sdtk (4-7)
8. Various Artists - Twilight Saga: New Moon sdtk (10-8)
9. Carrie Underwood - Play On (3-9)
10. Taylor Swift - Fearless (5-10)

• Last season's American Idol winner Kris Allen's self-title debut album comes in at #11 with 80,000 sold. I smell "Ruben Studdard/Clay Aiken 2.0" brewing with Kris and Adam Lambert. You know, the clearly gay guy, that didn't wanna admit he was gay during Idol, that came in 2nd place and ends up having a more successful career than the actual winner. I can smell it, I can see it.
• Leona Lewis' 2nd album Echo comes in at #13 with 67,300 sold, a far cry from her 2008 debut Spirit.
  
• Rakim's long awaited come back album The Seventh Seal comes in at #61 with 11,700 sold.
• Pretty Ricky's self-titled album debuts at #97, but I can find their sales figures anywhere. If Rakim did nearly 12,000 at #61, I'm guessing PR sold around 5,000.
  

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold
1. Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind (1-1)
2. Lady GaGa - Bad Romance (11-2)
3. Owl City - Fireflies (2-3)
4. Jason Rulo - Whatcha Say (3-4)
5. Ke$ha - TiK ToK (10-5)
6. Iyaz - Replay (4-6)
7. David Guetta - Sexy Chick (12-7)
8. Lady GaGa - Paparazzi (9-8)
9. Britney Spears - 3 (6-9)
10. Jay Sean - Down (7-10)

• Leona Lewis' Happy see's a surge with her album coming out last week and goes 59-31 this week.
• Kris Allen's single Live Like We're Dying jumps 29 spots 71-40.
• Alicia Keys' Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart (I'm sure she could just call up Mashonda if she really wanted to know what that was like) debuts at #58.
• Gucci Mane's bullshit (aka first single) Spotlight jumps 19 spot 86-67. I told y'all this was gonna finally move once he went to jail. Lets see how long this lasts.
• Trey Songz's Say Aah moves 13 spots up 81-68.
• Rihanna's Hard with Young Jeezy starts off at #80 this week.
• Melanie Fiona's It Kills Me comes in at #88.
• In a true shocker, the intro to 50 Cent's new album, debuts on the Hot 100 this week. The Invitation starts off at #97, lets see if it can hang around.

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This Week In Flops 11/17/09

This album actually dropped yesterday, but it doesn't matter because I think this is the beginning of the end. Don't get me wrong, we'll still hear plenty from 50 Cent, but just not musically because this album is gonna flop and its gonna flop HARD! Let me give my prediction, and then we'll discuss. I have Before I Self Destruct moving something in the neighborhood of 105-165k.

Now of course that's not a flop for the vast majority of working rappers these days, but we're talking about Hip-Hop megastar 50 Cent here. In first weeks, 50 Cent doesn't sell in the hundred-thousands, his lowest first week total was 2007's Curtis and even that surpassed 600,000 (though mainly off the strength of Kanye West).

With the market the way it is, for BISD to not be considered a flop, I think its going to have to sell AT LEAST 300,000, but I just don't see it. I don't see the buzz, I don't see the hits, I don't see the movement, I don't see the interest. Plainly said, 50 Cent the rapper has run his course.

(Side note: The fact that 50 has run his course musically makes it all the more remarkable he was able to destroy Rick Ross they way he did. I don't know if that says more about the strength of 50, or the weakness of Ross?)

Its not the end of the world though, plenty of rappers die off. Look at Nelly, look at Juvenile, look at DMX. Once upon a time those guys were multi-platinum selling artists, but if they dropped albums today, they'd struggle to get over 100,000 first week. It happens. Its natural. Everybody can't be Jay-Z.

As far as albums actually coming out today, Rakim's long awaited The Seventh Seal is now in stores. Look, Rakim is a legend, but his missed the boat. His best shot at making a come back was back in 2002 when he was on a big hit in Truth Hurts' Addictive and still signed to Aftermath. Basically what I'm trying to say is that at this point, nobody cares. I know it sounds harsh, but you don't get that many chances to have a career in music, and you have even less chances to make a comeback. I'll give this album 5-15k.

These guys were a joke when Pleasure P left, but they really became a laughing stock after Spectacular when all...well, Spectacular back in May. I don't think many ladies have been checking for them ever since so don't be surprised if this is the last we hear from Pretty Ricky. I'll give them 5-15k as well.

I was listening to this Mannie Fresh song called Drought with Rick Ross yesterday and it was too funny hearing Mannie talk about selling and moving coke. That story really have nothing to do with anything, but it made me laugh, I thought I'd share lol.

Moving right along, I'm sure not many people even know this is dropping, but I'm gonna say it does somewhere in between 3-10k.

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50 Cent/Rick Ross Beef Fake??

Sissy Spec? LMAO!!

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The Pretty Ricky Nigga Returns & The Homotry Continues!

This shit is just sad. He's really actually convinced himself that what he was doing was meant to only be seen by "the ladies" when he CLEARLY called out and challenged about 5 other niggas to a grind off. Besides the fact that I have yet to come in contact with a SINGLE females that thought this was sexy or anything but homo. I mean not one! And then he wants to blame his failure on "haters." Nigga please! This nigga may be more delusional than Rick Ross at this point. Fuck! Why do these niggas have to be from Florida?? Looks like I might have to move...

(Oh, and don't be surprised if it comes out that there's a dude behind the camera. When he spoke about his "red draws" at the beginning the camera angled down without him touching it so there is DEFINITELY another person in the room. Is it a dude?? I don't know, but I'm about 99% sure its a guy lol. Possibly the nigga "Lingerie" he's been talking about?? Developing story.)

I'm gonna go ahead and show some love to my boy Butta and post his reaction to the video one more time because this shit is too fuckin' funny lol.



Related:
Quite Possibly The Funniest, Gayest Shit You've Ever Seen!
Pretty Ricky Nigga Tries To Denies His Gayness
Spectacular Cartoon Parody
That's Spectacular!

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That's Spectacular!

I gotta run, but more videos after the jump!

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Spectacular Cartoon Parody

LMAO! Props to these dudes for whipping this shit together so fast! This was actually up 2 days ago. That's crazy! Show some love to B.Y.O.U. on YouTube.

There's another cool Charles Hamilton parody after the jump too so check that out.


Victim is lucky this Pretty Ricky nigga came along and failed harder than him. He should send that nigga a gift basket or something. Then again one thing might lead to another... yeah, you know lol.

Related:
Pretty Ricky Nigga Tries To Denies His Gayness
Quite Possibly The Funniest, Gayest Shit You've Ever Seen!
Worse Failure: Charles Hamilton Vs. Jazmine Sullivan

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Pretty Ricky Nigga Tries To Denies His Gayness

Before you press play, please forgive all the long pauses in the audio, Kendra G's fine dumb ass edited her voice out for some reason so you don't hear both sides of the conversation, you just hear him. I know, brillant.


I would take this time to talk about this nigga denies this most blatant act of homotry (I mean how you gonna say you ain't mean for dudes to see this when you 1) put it on the internet 2) CHALLENGED DUDES IN THE VIDEO), but I just wanna talk about the blank spots in the audio. What the fuck is that?? Is Kendra G's voice trademarked or something?? Why would you take your side of the conversation out?? Conversation generally don't work when there's only one person speaking, especially when the one person is speaking to another person who later decides to remove their voice from the audio like a genius. Kendra is fine and all, but I don't get this... at all.

Anyway, here's another spoof lol.


Related:
Quite Possibly The Funniest, Gayest Shit You've Ever Seen!

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Quite Possibly The Funniest, Gayest Shit You've Ever Seen!

Try not to die of laughter (I almost did):


LMFAO!

No words. No words.

It was only a matter of time before somebody spoofed this video. Didn't think it'd happen this fast though lol. Many more to come later I'm sure lol.

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Pretty Ricky Feat. Butta Crèame - Cuddle Up

Be clear, this IS the most homo pic I have and will ever post. The only reason I'm putting it up now is because 1) its their artwork for the single and 2) the only other pic with the new singer is even more homo lol.

Anyway, I heard this shit on the radio the other day and I just wanted to share the terribleness lol.

Pretty Ricky Feat. Butta Crèame - Cuddle Up


Someone find these niggas Pleasure P quick! lol. I mean damn their songs usually sucked anyway, but at least with the other singer there was at least one good part in every song lol.

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I Know You Don't Care But... Pleasure out of Pretty Ricky

Jumping off my new section I Know You Don't Care But... is Pleasure's departure from Pretty Ricky. I know the news broke last week BUT if my defense for being late I knew this was gonna happen for about a year now lol. As it turns out, all of these dudes aren't brothers (surprise, surprise! lol) and his father told my mom he was leaving the group awhile back. See Pleasure's dad does my mom's hair (no he's no gay and he has plenty kids to prove it lol) so tis "inside" info on Pretty Ricky comes easy lol. I tried to tell illseed this a LONG time ago (but he wasn't replying to my emails back then lol) because after my mom told me what his dad said he just signed a solo contract with Jimmy Henchman's management company Czar Entertainment. Here's what he allegedly wrote on his myspace blog (when I went there I aint see shit...but I did see that Pretty Ricky wasn't in his top friends if that counts for anything lol):

HEART TO HEART

Body: HEY YALL I WANT TO ADRESS SOMETHING TO YALL. I LOVE EACH AND EVERYONE OF MY FANS AND I WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING TO UPSET YALL AND DISSAPOINT YALL. I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO ALL OF MY BALTIMORE FANS. I WANT TO SAY THAT IT IS TRUE I HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY SOMEONE ELSE IN THE GROUP PRETTY RICKY, SO IF YOU SEE THE GROUP ON STAGE ITS NOT ME BUT ANOTHER PERSON. I LOVE MY BROTHERS AND I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THEM WE HAVE NO BEEF BUT I FEEL ITS TIME FOR ME TO GIVE YALL WHAT YALL BEEN WAITING FOR A R N B ALBUM!!!! IF IT WASNT FOR PRETTY RICKY THEY WOULD NEVER BE NO PLEASURE P. IM NOT HERE TO DISS THE GROUP, BUT IM HERE TO LET YALL KNOW WHATS GOING ON... IM WORKING ON A ALBUM JUST FOR MY SUPERSTARS AND ILL ALSO BE IN A CITY NEAR YOU TO COME AND VISIT YALL!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!! YALL HIT ME BACK AND LET ME KNOW HOW YALL FEELING I PRONISE TO TR TO RESPOND TO EVERYONE. THE BEST WAY FOR ME TO RESPOND IS IF YALL LEAVE ME A COMMENT!!!!!

I dunno whatever since yall don't care anyway...hell I know I don't lol.

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Who's Dressin' These Lil Niggas?? Pt. 2

Apparently it wasn't enough for Pretty Ricky to just look like damn fools on 106 and Park with their Bobby Brown/Shabba Ranks get-ups, but they took their minstrel show talents (fuck it) minstrel show to TRL they were wearing the same shit! This time it was black, as you can see from the picture, but equally horrific.

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Who's Dressin' These Lil Niggas??

I watched 106 & Park again today. Sadly, Pretty Ricky was the buffoons guests, proving that not every one-hit wonder only has one song. I'm not sure why they are dressing like Every Little Step Bobby Brown/Mr. Loverman Shaba Ranks but they really need to stop it. Then again they've always dressed terrible and made fools out of themselves on national television, I was just pretty content with doing nothing over and over rather than wasting key strokes writing about them before but oh well fuck it lol.

The one short nigga wit the fools gold teeth keeps saying they have the #1 album in the world 5 weeks straight. 5 weeks straight? Don't you have be on the #1 in U.S. For more than one week to qualify?? I dunno whatever but why every time they on TV this dirty lookin dredded nigga always doin this bad preacher impression?? I mean damn nigga enoughs, enough, the shit aint funny lol. Oh yeah and yall aren't role models so stop it!

Wow, look at this video! First they come on with the 1988 Bobby Brown/1992 Shabba clothes, now they're tryna bring back the 1997 Puff Daddy (remember him? lol) shiny suits in the video? I haven't seen that much fake gold since the last time I went to the Swap Shop. I dunno what's goin on but they (or whoever they pay to dress them...oh wait they're broke lol) have no fashion sense whatsoever, but the ladies love them...well obviously not enough to make either of their albums platinum but you know what I mean! They get a great response, only adding more evidence to the theory that the average teenage girl is possibly the dumbest creature on Earth...next to the teenage boy...and O.J. Simpson of course lol.

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Top Albums of 2007...So Far...

Welp we're half way thru 2007 & have made little to no progress as far
as whole albums is concerned...yes its sad but lets pray for a plentiful
2nd half!

Top 5 Albums of 2007...So Far...

1. Young Buck - Buck The World
Its a sad day in hip-hop when the best album of the year so far its over a 4/5 but that is the case here. This is the only album I've bought this
whole year becuz it is tight but just not as good as his debut. 3.75/5

2. Fabolous - From Nothin To Somethin
Fab obviously isn't goin to get any better but at least this album is
better than the trainwreck that was 2004's "Real Talk." 3.5/5

3. Rich Boy - Rich Boy
He shoulda named the album "Polow Da Don" becuz without Polow's
involvement this would have been another ringtone rapper flop...no wait
it was another ringtone rapper flop! Unfortunately for Rich Boy he
actually had other good & a few borderline great songs besides "Throw
Some D's." Still give most of the credit to Polow's production which
this album's saving grace. 3.5/5

4. T-Pain - Epiphany
Honestly, I don't even know if this album was tight or not I just know
after listening to R. Kelly's album it couldn't have gotten any worse
lol. 3.5/5

5. Redman - Red Gone Wild: Thee Album
Reg was a little rusty but his album was still good enuff to make this
list. 3.5/5

Worst 5 Albums of 2007...So Far...

1. Shop Boyz - Rockstar Mentality
Well, well, well what can I say about this album that hasn't already
been said about Lindsay Lohan's pussy...I'll let yall finish that joke.
0/5

2. Pretty Ricky - Late Night Special
Just look at them...only one even has any talent, the others just jump
around like fools & scream on the records. 1.5/5

3. Baby Boy Da Prince - Across The Water
Didn't even need to listen to this one. 1.5/5

4. DJ Khaled - We The Best
No nigga "we" aint the best (or at least the "we" you assembled) so stop
sayin that! Man I done came up half my life listenin to Khaled on 99Jamz
& love his shit to def but this album really wasn't good...at all. I
hate to say so but I kinda saw this comin when the person who had the
best song on his last album (Kanye West) didn't show up this time.
Basically the only song worth listening to is the one with Beanie Sigel
murderin shit on a sick ass track...thaz pretty much it...& don't ask me
how they fucked up a song with Jadakiss, Trick Daddy, & The Game. 2.5/5

5. Huey - Notebook Paper
Huey went the ringtone rapper route but I had some hope for him seeing
that his lyrics weren't as terrible as others (i.e. Shop Boyz, Pretty
Ricky, etc.) but that was to no avail becuz we got the same result.
2.5/5

Dishonorable Mentions

R. Kelly - Double Up
Damn R-ruh! This shit was bad...I mean real bad BUT fortunately for him
at least 5 others did worse. There were a few good songs, but damn its
like he lost his idenity becuz there is hardly any slow jams on here,
just an abundance of ignorant songs (some of which he doesn't even
bother rhyming on). It really seems like instead of other young R&B cats
learning from him, he's tryin to learn from them...R. Kelly's ass is
trippin! 3/5

USDA - Cold Summer
I was expectin more from this album after hearin the song "Corporate
Thuggin" (well Jeezy's verse at least) & The Inspiration but nope it was
WACK! Back to the drawing board...or should I say "101." 3/5

Sa-Ra - The Hollywood Recordings
I don't even know what to say about this...I truly didn't know what was
goin on which is why I turned it off & deleted it...hopefully their
G.O.O.D. Music debut will actully have good music on it. N/A...I still
confused lol.

Top 5 Mixtapes of 2007...So Far...

1. The Game - Youknowhatitis Vol. 4
Of course Game wasn't gonna disappoint but damn he might out did himself
on this one! 4.75/5

2. Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothin
Pure genius! You really can't tell him nothin if he's gon keep puttin
out classic material. Can't wait til "Graduation" drops! 4.5/5

3. Tru Life - Tru York
I knew Tru was nice but he just solidified it becuz dude was spittin!
4.25/5

4. Styles P. - The Ghost Sessions
SP does it again! This was pure mixtape murder in the 1st degree.
4.25/5

5. Jadakiss - The Come Up
I can't decide what I liked more the mixtape or the DVD lol. 4/5

Honorable Mention

Trey Songz - The Ladies Choice
Trey needs to be respected becuz he embodies talent most R&B dudes could only dream to obtain...he's not a bad rapper either. But really though, what other R&B cats is droppin mixtapes?? 4/5

Worst Mixtapes of 2007...So Far...

Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
If you like hearing rhymes about fuckin hoes, poppin pills, jewelry, and
allegedly being a Blood that make little, to no sense then Lil Wayne is
your man & Da Drought 3 is your mixtape! This shit was extremely bad!
Jam packed with wack one liners that will be sure to send the average
D.R.A. (Dick Riders of America) thru the roof in anticipation for Tha
Carter 3. There was one decent song on here (Promise)...wasn't really an
original idea considering I wrote the same shit while the song was still
out...oh well he beat me to recording somethin once again lol. 1.5/5

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 3 Sessions
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, DUN D-DUN! ...the "best
rapper alive" decides to "bless" us with songs from Tha Carter 3! I'll
try to keep this brief, but if he uses ANY of these songs on his album
he should consider suicide....yeah it was THAT bad! Before he releases
the real version he better go find Mannie Fresh & suck his dick for some
beats (we all know he's not opposed to homosexuality lol) becuz the
production is terrible, especially from someone that is "rich." Then
there's the lyrics...oh my goodness the lyrics! I'll just stop now becuz
its only gonna get me mad. -5/5

-Fortunately I pick my mixtapes out better than my albums so thats the extent of the worst mixtapes for me lol.

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Aight well look for a dramatically differently lookin list of top albums
come January 1, 2008 with Kanye, Common, & hopefully Dr. Dre or Eminem droppin in the upcoming months.

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