4 Good (& Bad) Uses Of Auto-Tune
June 15, 2009 by B-Easy · 11 Comments
The release of Jay-Z’s song, “D.O.A (Death Of Auto-Tune)”, sparked the debate on the use (And over use) of Auto-Tune in Hip-Hop. Is it corny? Is it dead? Can it die? Even the biggest supporters of the tool can admit that its use has been excessive as of late Read more
Busta Rhymes|Back On My B.S.
May 19, 2009 by SBK · 12 Comments
About three years since his last release The Big Bang, Busta Rhymes is “back in the most immaculate way” as he would say. Back On My B.S. is Busta’s eighth official album release to date since The Coming back in 1996 Read more
The Numbers Game: Jamie, Beyoncé, & Clifford
March 12, 2009 by B-Easy · 5 Comments
For some reason, this week has been hard on your boy B-Easy. Not to say I’m not working on projects for nappyafro. I’m ALWAYS working on projects for nappyafro (Shit, I gave you people magic earlier this week). No complaints though Read more
The Numbers Game: Uncle Charlie Surprises, Akon Goes Gold, & N.A.S.A. Debuts
February 26, 2009 by B-Easy · 7 Comments
Raise your hand if you even knew Charlie Wilson’s album came out last week. Okay, I knew it wasn’t just me. The Gap Band’s lead singer did some business this week and took the #2 spot with his 4th album Uncle Charlie. Read more
The Numbers Game: New Money
February 11, 2009 by B-Easy · 2 Comments
You see what they made me do? The releases are so slow right now that I had to go make a banner for The Numbers Game because I didn’t know who should be pictured (I mean, I could have threw Rihanna up there, but that would have been f*cked up.) Read more
The Numbers Game: Beyonce Stays On Top
February 5, 2009 by B-Easy · 5 Comments
You know there must be a shortage of Hip-Hop releases when Beyonce gets the picture…twice. I’m not gonna really gonna go into about how there are no relevant Hip-Hop album coming out in the beginning of 2009; if you read any past Numbers Game columns this year you already know I said this a hundred times already. Read more
The Numbers Game: Kanye Stays At #4
January 29, 2009 by B-Easy · 2 Comments
We still here? I thought a Numbers Game this week wouldn’t see the light of day, but here we are. But hey, we’ll talk about that drama another time. Even though this January has been rough for the nappyafro crew, I can’t wait for this releases to start coming in. Think about it: Mariah Carey is the only R&B/Hip-Hop debut this week in the Top 50 Read more
The Numbers Game: Golden
January 8, 2009 by B-Easy · 4 Comments
Okay, I got like 20 minutes to get this The Numbers Game up (I’ve never been late on one before). No debuts this week so there’s not a lot of difference from last week. I guess the only thing I can say about this week is that in a month or so, Ludacris, Keyshia Cole, Jamie Foxx, John Legend, & T-Pain will go Gold. It looks like January will be a slow month… Read more
The Numbers Game: Kanye Goes Platinum
January 1, 2009 by B-Easy · 6 Comments
Damn, it’s 2009 already? After almost doing this column 40 times now, it still feels like I just started this yesterday. What does ‘09 hold for Hip-Hop on the charts? We’ll see a new Eminem album, maybe Detox, hopefully Blueprint 3 as well as a host of other releases (January looks slack as hell by the way). But before we get to that, here’s the first edition of the Numbers Game for the new year. Read more
The Numbers Game: Soulja Boy Debuts At #43
December 24, 2008 by B-Easy · 8 Comments
What? You thought I was gonna miss out on telling you how much Plies and Soulja Boy sold last week. Consider this a early X-Mas present; The Numbers Game is here a day early (Now in paragraph format!). A lot of artists benefited from the holiday shopping boost (while some didn’t). Well since H20’s iSouljaboytellem review last week had the comments jumping, we’ll start there: Read more
