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08-10-2008 11:15
In today's Daily Rap we see Eminem voted as the best rapper alive, Jay-Z cancels a free show, Cam’Ron's album Crime Pays has been pushed back and the birthplace of Hip-Hop is sold.
Over 920,000 votes were cast by Vibe magazine in preparation for crowning one of 64 MCs the ‘best rapper alive.’
When it came down to the final two the competition was between Brooklyn’s Jay Z and Eight Mile’s Eminem.
Even though it is over four years since we saw an album from the Detroit native, Eminem managed to secure 69% of the vote and was given the coveted title.
The competition has been played on line since July of this year and saw 64 of the music industries top rappers compete with each other in a knock out system.
Eminem released a statement saying "I don't think that there is any one rapper that is simply the best, though.
Everyone who was in consideration and many others are the best at certain things, and at what they do. But since Vibe's offering the distinction, hell yeah, I'll accept!"
Thousands of fans who turned out to see Jay Z perform in Miami on Monday night at a free concert for the Campaign of Obama Barack were left disappointed when the headlining act failed to appear due to illness.
Jay Z who had performed over the weekend in a similar concert had to pull the plug on Monday due to a sore throat and due to the annoyance of fans the concert which was to also feature Rick Ross and Wyclef Jean was totally halted.
Jay Z has been encouraging the youth and the Hip-Hop community to go out and vote on November 4th using concerts such as this as an incentive to young people to register to vote.
Obama Barack has informed media that he is a Jay Z fan and has the rappers albums on his Ipod
After being missing from the music scene since his show down with 50 Cent back in early 2007, Cam’Ron was looking to release his next project Crime Pays later this year, but for unknown reasons, the album which will be released on Asylum will not be available until 2009.
This is the rappers first project since his highly publicized feud with his fellow Dipset brethren, Jim Jones and Juelz Santana. Cam’Ron has been the most successful of the Diplomat family selling over two million albums.
The building in the South Bronx, 1520 Sedgwick Avenue where the first Hip-Hop party was held back in 1973 by a DJ known as Kool Herc and his sister Cindy has been sold for $7 million.
Bought out by a real estate developer the landmark has been in the middle of a feud between tenants and developer Mark Karasick who outbid tenants yesterday for the rights to the building.
The tenants of the building, listed as a state and federal landmark last year, had hoped to prevent the sale in order to preserve the building and its 100 units to Karasick who they believe will end up increasing rent on the apartments within.
DJ Kool Herc was disappointed that no-one had intervened from the Hip-Hop world in an attempt to help out residents in keeping the building.
Melanie Cornish
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