If you’re the kind that listens to the creations of Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem, Dr. Dre or Snoop Dogg, you’re probably oriented with the top hip-hop music icons for the past 10 years. And like everybody else, you might be thinking how the magic happened when it comes to their success from being normal citizens to moguls.  Jay-Z, for example, has sold nearly 40 million albums, with this number in mind, there’s a huge list of songs to go through when making any sort of list for this guy.The top-ten songs of Jay-Z are probably 99 Problems, The Empire State of Mind which featured Alicia Keys,  Dirt Off Your Shoulder, Hard Knock-life, Run this town; a song in collaboration with RnB star Rihanna, Young Forever; probably Jay-Z’s most emotional song,  Big Pimpin; the song that you’d like to hear on a hot day and a fat spiff, Encore,  Dead Presidents 2; contended to be best rap lyric of all time and Song Cry.
 
Jay-Z, the mogul and the man in hip-hop music isn’t just successful in the business, but is the very definition of the business.
 
The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2011
 
At the start of the summer you might be listening to Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass, LMFAO’s party anthem etc etc. But let’s take a look at the charts on who’s who for the first half of the year in 2011.

As we look into Billboard’s top selling R&B and Hip hop albums, it’s a surprise that Lil Wayne is catching fire; with his album “Tha Carter IV”.
The album includes Lil Wayne’s new single entitled How to Love.

The 2nd in the ranks are not new in the limelight, for years Jay-z is still enjoying the ranks in billboard with his album “Watch the Throne” in collaboration with Kanye West.

Third place belongs to Beyonce and her new album 4 which is basically her fourth studio album. Fourth place goes to the GAME with his album entitled R.E.D with the single  The City.

The rest of the charts feature some new artists in the limelight like Kelly Rowland and Nicki Minaj,Jill Scott and former lovers Rihanna and Chris Brown.
 
Free online music
 
With the emergence of Apple and Itunes in the industry and in the web and being awarded as the world’s most trusted brand, it was not a surprise that every enterprise would want to put it’s products in it; from language lessons, to sermons, seminars, apps, movies and music.

With the stint in town, every person who possibly owns an Ipod has to pay a price to put in some good old music into his mp3.

And with the economy falling every quarter we want something that’s free every now and then so we as music lovers we are in search of sites on the web that can get us that free music.

Even though Bittorrent, Utorrent, Vuze and other torrent engines are on the loose, some bands don’t mind putting up websites  where they offer their music for free and unlike the torrent engines that some of us use its certainly free of piracy; an indication that you can still enjoy clean and free high quality music.
 

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Posted by volume on November 9th, 2011 :: Filed under Music
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