Swifty McVay “Verbal Contract”

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Looks like eLZhi will be releasing a new project for free download on eLZhi.com this Friday (12/11). We’ll definitely be letting you know when it goes live.

Royce Da 5’9″ had a busy year in 2009. After he and three other elite emcees founded Slaughterhouse, the group proceeded to release a full-length album between going on two nationwide tours. And this fall, he released Street Hop, his long-awaited album executive produced DJ Premier.

But to open the new decade, Royce is hitting the ground running . Yesterday, he used his Twitter page (click here) to announce that he will release the third installment of his Bar Exam mixtape series on March 13, 2010. The last two were mixed and hosted by DJ Premier and DJ Green Lantern, but this time, Royce enlisted DJ Whoo Kid, known for his expertise on the critically-acclaimed G-Unit Radio mixtapes.

Royce, whose love for boxing has been chronicled in interviews and songs like “Ding Ding,” scheduled the mixtape to drop the same day as the match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. The match is expected to break records for revenue and pay-per-view buys, so the pairing of the mixtape and the match is “Epic,” Royce tweeted.

The Bar Exam series is known for its playful jabs at miscellaneous would-be foes, but Royce pointed out that this effort will have more focused disses.

“Bar Exam3 will be very offensive to [you] if [you] ever disrespected me or my crew,” he tweeted. “You were not being ignored so be afraid BITCH.”

Eminem may not have made MTV’s “10 Hottest MCs” list, and some fans didn’t like the polarizing nature of his latest album, Relapse. But as another popular emcee said, “Men lie. Women lie. Numbers don’t.”

According to an MTV report, a list from Nielson Soundscan has proclaimed Em as the best selling artist of the decade. Soundscan, the information system that tabulates the Billboard charts, shows that the Detroit lyricist/producer has sold more than 32.2 million albums between January 1, 2000 and November 1, 2009.

A list of the top 10 selling albums of the decade includes two of Eminem’s critically-acclaimed albums, The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show, at rankings of no. four and five, respectively. The 32.2 million figure also include the previously mentioned Relapse, the 4X platinum Encore, and presumably, the Eminem Presents: The Re-Up compilation and Curtain Calls greatest hits album.

Eminem hopes to get even more sales on December 21 with Relapse: Refill, a re-release of this year’s Relapse with a bonus disc of seven unreleased songs. His next album, Relapse 2, is set for a 2010 release.

[via MTV]

Obie Trice “I Am”

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Obie Trice’s “Special Reserve” in stores December 15.

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Willie The Kid & DJ Scream “The Outkast” (Mixtape)

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Tracklist:

1. Chonkyfire
2. Benz Or Beamer (feat. La The Darkman)
3. Players Ball
4. Black Ice
5. Skew It On The Barbie
6. She Lives In My Lap
7. Hollywood Divorce
8. Hootie Hoo (feat. La The Darkman)
9. Return of the Gangsta
10. Slum Beautiful
11. Synthesizer
12. Out of This World
13. Claiming True