A few weeks ago we told you about the feud between O.G triple O.G Ice T and Mr. Crank that Soulja Boy. If you didn’t catch it, Ice T came out and said that Soulja Boy was “single-handedly killing Hip-Hop”, and also added that Mr. Crank That should “eat a dick”. At the time we disagreed with the way Ice T came across, but after hearing what Soulja Boy told MTV we might have to rethink things.

Soulja Boy recently told MTV that he did not wanna improve his lyrical skills, he said:

“If I wanted to, [I could] go that route and be respected [not for] my success … respected [for] my music and my lyrics or whatever.”That’s why I did the mixtape that I did. I did a mixtape called ‘Teen of the South’ with Dj Scream. And I did that just to step my game up a little bit on that [lyrical] side. But I wasn’t really going into no album and just full-fledge trying to switch my swagger and try to get respect from the game.”

Soulja Boy seems to have a small chip on his shoulder. He followed that statement with adding:

“‘Cause why would I show love to the game? The game don’t show you love back. So I wasn’t gonna do that and come back out and mess up my image and mess up myself. I was going on the strength that I want respect from people who probably don’t like me anyway. So I’m gonna stick to what I do and stay being successful and I’ll do some mixtapes and some futures, something like that.”

Does he not realize that the “game” is what is putting food on his table every night. That’s like a rookie going into the league and saying that he isn’t gonna get better, that he is good and wants to keep his rookie image. If you a true artist like Jay Z, Bun B, Nas, or even the late great 2pac and Biggie, your fans will jam you anyway. We here at randomgossip.com have to agree with Ice T on one thing, and that is if what Soulja Boy feels is the way other young artists feel then Hip-Hop will die a slow painful death. Thank God that isn’t the case!

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After selling over a million units his first week, and dropping to second behind Coldplay the following 2 weeks, Lil Wayne has gained the number 1 spot again. After suffering a 25% loss in sales in his fourth week, “The Carter 3″ still managed to push out 156,000 units raising his total sales to 1.68 million. Coldplay dropped to second with 149,000 units sold. With Disney’s soundtrack to the “Camp Rock” movie, the Jonas Brothers came in third with 116,000 units sold.

G-Units released their second album “Terminate On Sight” thinking it would give the top spot a run. Their first album “Beg For Mercy” broke 377,000 units back in 2003. That wasn’t the case as the group came in 4th with 102,000 units sold. Couldn’t even beat out the Disney band. With 50 Cent being in the media a lot lately you would have thought sales would have been a bit higher.

We are anxious to see if Wayne can be knocked off the top of the mountain anytime soon. With albums from Killer Mike, Nas, Randy Travis, Lloyd, and The Vines releasing on the 15th of July we will see.

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Right now the main course for Hip Hop is beef, and apparently Jay Z is hungry. It seems Jay Z caught some controversy from Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher. Gallagher made his voice heard by criticizing event organizers for allowing Jay Z to headline the Glastonbury festival. Jay Z got back at Gallagher by preforming his own version of the Oasis song “Wonderwall” and following that up with a brilliant performance of “99 Problems.” If we were Noel Gallagher we wouldn’t stand for it. Yes we are instigating. Here’s the performance:

In other Jay Z news, Celeste Williams was the first petitioner in a class action lawsuit filed against Jay Z’s 40/40 Club. She is saying that while employed at the club she received under minimum wage pay and was not paid for overtime hours. How did she not know how much she was making when she started? We’re confused!! Her lawyer Maimon Kirschenbaum made this statement: “This is a good day for restaurant workers all over the city.” He is also reaching out to other club workers and have them join Ms. Williams on the suit. Personally we feel this is just another attempt to extort money from a celebrity. The truth always comes out in the end and we will keep you posted.

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