The Friday Hip Hop Report(Oct 17)

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

===MAIN STORIES===
-Alicia Keys leads the American Music Award nominations with 5, followed by Lil Wayne & Chris Brown who have 3 each.
-Beef has been sparked between Yung Berg & Ne-Yo, after Ne-Yo said that he'd slap berg and that his music was not original in an interview with Power 106's big boy.
-50 Cent's new MTV reality show "The money and the power", which aims to find the next hip hop mogul will air next month
-Comedian DL Hughley has a new saturday night comedy talk show on CNN starting Oct 25th
-Comedy Central launched - Chocolate news -a new black comedy sketch show hosted by david alan grier.
-Diddy adds 2 more names to his "Cross Me and I Will End Your Career" List. In the live finale of Makin The Band 4 he kicked out both Aubrey and D Woods from Danity Kane.
-Suge Knights ex-girl friend is missing
-DJ AM, survivor of the travis barker plane crash will be JayZ's tour DJ
-Former 106 & park host Free will be joining ed lover as co-host for the morning show on new yorks power 105.

===NEW RELEASES===
Diamond D - The Huge Hefner Chronicles
Trae - The Beginning
Charles Hamilton - "It's Charles Hamilton"
B.O.B - Hi! My Name Is B.O.B.
DJ Green Lantern, Russell Simmons and Barack Obama- YES WE CAN: The Mixtape
Killa Army Presents - 9th Prince - Prince of New York
C-Rayz Wallz - Freestyle vs. Written
Ticketmaster Tapes Presents: T-Pain - The Ringmaster
Baby J - Babyfood


===NEW MUSIC===
Town Bizness ft Too $hort - "Redbull & Vodka"
Maino feat. Soul ll Soul - However Do You Want It
Lil Wayne Ft. Ashley Williams - Mrs. Officer (Remix)
Cam'Ron- Oh No You Didn't
Kanye West - Cold Winter
Joe Budden,Twista,John Mayer - Waiting on the World to Change 2008″
Eminem - "Im Havin a Relapse"
E-40 ft. The Game and Snoop Dogg - "Pain No More"


===NEW VIDEOS===
Beyonce - Single Ladies
Beyonce - If I Were a Boy
Plies - Heard of Me
T-Pain ft Ludacris - Chopped N Skrewed
Q-Tip - Move
Pitbull ft Lil Jon - Krazy
Mike Jones ft Trey Songz & Twista - Cuddy Buddy

==BILLBOARD 200===
NEILSENs SOUND SCAN:

1. T.I. - PAPER TRAIL 176,714 746,075
2. Jennifer Hudson - JENNIFER HUDSON 62,672 280,392
3. Ne-yo - YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN 46,904 450,356
4. Robin Thicke - SOMETHING ELSE 38,317 175,521