The weekly show that reports all the developments in Hip Hop from news and new releases
to album sales and charts. Hosted by Valerie, this weeks show features:



===MAIN STORIES===

A female judge has rejected a 3 million dollar invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Vibe magazine and Diddy, after a topless photo taken at a
Diddy Hamptons Party was published in Vibe magazine.

T.I has been ordered by a judge to increase his monthly child support payments to his baby mother by $1000 per month to $3000 in total.

Ciara is still insisting that she was not naked for her recent vibe magazine cover shoot and that they airbrushed her panties off.

Kanye West is the only rapper to feature on the official Obama compilation album: 'Yes We Can:Voices of a Grass Roots Movement'.

Other artists include stevie wonder, john legend & Jill Scott.

However Pharrell, Jayz & several other celebs have designed t-shirts for Obamas 'Runway to Change' Fashion campaign.
You can cop the t's and the CD on barackobama.com.

Run DMC are amongst 9 nominees for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, but will have to wait until April next year to know if they got in! Other nominees include Metalica, bobby womack.

VH1 has crowned Public Enemys 'Fight The Power' as the best hip hop song ever, with sugar hill gang's - rappers delight in 2nd and dr dre's 'nothing but a g-thang' in 3rd.

Kanye West & Rhymefest are in talks with Comedy Central about a hip hop themed muppets style comedy sketch show. Aligator Boots is the current working title.


===NEW RELEASES===

Killah Priest - Beautiful Minds

Pretty Ricky - Eighties Babies

Everlast - Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford

Lloyd Banks "Return Of The PLK"

Jazmine Sullivan – Fearless

Johnson&Jonson: Johnson&Jonson

Gucci Mane - Hood Classics


===NEW MUSIC===

Flo Rida - Ms Hangover

Black Milk - Give The Drummer Sum

D.O.E ft Keri Hilson - Comin Down

Busta Rhymes ft Ron Browz – Arab Money

P**** Cat Dolls ft Missy Elliott - Whatcha Think About That Remix

Freeway - Hustlaz Prayer

Freekey Zekey ft Jim Jones & Lil Wayne - This Girl

Trina - Shawty Say


===NEW VIDEOS===

Ne-yo ft Fabolous & Jamiee Foxx - She Got Her Own Things

Kidz In The Hall ftEstelle - Love Hangover

Heltah Skeltah - Ruck N Roll

Rocko - This Morning
R.Kelly - Skin



==BILLBOARD 200===
Here are last week’s album sales courtesy of NEILSEN’s SOUND SCAN:


1. Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman 250,069
2. Nelly - Brass Knuckles 83,717
3. Young Jeezy - The Recession 59,874 | 410,384
4. DJ Khaled - We Global 49,385
5. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III 43,114 | 2.45m
6. The Game - LAX 41,53av6 | 418,636
7. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad 31,675 | 1.8m
8. Rapheal Saadiq - The Way I See It 23,430
9. Leona Lewis - Spirit 22,242 | 1.1m
10.Eric Benet - Love & Live 18,540 | 58,943


==TOP FIVE SONGS===
Here are this week’s top 5 selling digital songs on iTunes:

# 5 – American Boy by Estelle ft Kanye West
# 4 – M.I.A “Paper Planes”

# 3 is Rihanna with “Disturbia”
# 2 T.I with "Whatever You Like"
And this weeks top selling song on iTunes is Kanye West with "Love Lockdown”


===UNDERGROUND HEAT=====

This weeks Underground Heat artist is Skyzoo from Brooklyn, New York.

Check him out on myspace.com/skyzoo


===CREDITS===
A JumpOff.TV Production
(www.jumpoff.tv)

Presented By: Valerie
(www.jumpoff.tv/loravalerie)

Camera Op: Hector Gonzalez

Editor: AKC'Ent.
(www.jumpoff.tv/Akcent)