The Weekly Rundown: (April 27-May 4th)

Welcome to the weekly rundown where we (soulsupreme and marty) provide you with our top ten headlines for the week that was.

1. De La Soul releases collaboration album with Nike: Are You In? It’s good, but not much more than that. And hey, at least we have new De La! 45 minutes of running/sweating to the Plugs…lol
   
2. Maxwell Returns after a long hiatus with “Pretty Wings” Just what R&B game has been missing. This is the first single off his upcoming album Black Summer’s Night, which will be first release in 7 years.
3. Guru releases a new joint of his latest Jazzmatazz compilation called “Fast Lane” Monotone meets autotune???!! Somebody get DJ Premier on the phone because this is turrible! © Charles Barkley
4. Clipse Manger gets arrested with leading a 10 million dollar drug ring? “Keys open [prison] doors”……yuck! © Pusha T
5. Rick Ross has the #1 album in the country with Deeper Than Rap. After all the YouTube beefing with 50 Cent, Ross finally has a victory.
6. Nas & Kelis are heading for a divorce. Most Nas fans forgot about these tracks off Street’s Disciple anyway, but we doubt he’ll be performing “Getting Married”, “No One Else in the Room”, or “The Makings of a Perfect Bitch” ever again.
7. Lil Wayne beat out Obama and Oprah on Time’s influential person list? I guess Oprah should have more rappers on her show so she can have swagger, too!
8. Stones Throw 2009 American Tour Announced. The DJ tour with Peanut Butter Wolf, Dam-Funk, James Pants & Mayer Hawthorne is one the best underground shows happening right now.  They tore it down in Toronto on Friday, check ‘em out!
9. Bust Rhymes, The GZA & The Knux have been added to Rock The Bells 2009. The lineup for this festival just continues to grow stronger.
10. NBA Playoffs: Boston Celtics win Game 7 over the Chicago Bulls. In what has easily been the most exciting series in the playoff so far, the Celtics won! But this is all just a bunch of nonsense anyway because we know it will be Lakers v. Cavs in the Finals.