12 September 2007 12:29:58

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KANYE WINNING IN ALBUM RACE

KANYE WEST is winning the battle of the rap albums against 50 CENT in the US, early figures show.

Perhaps tempted by 50 Cent's threat to stop releasing solo material if Kanye beats him in sales, album-buyers have been turning to Kanye's GRADUATION rather than his rival's CURTIS over the last two days.

Figures suggest Kanye's album could shift some 700,000 copies in the first week, outstripping 50 Cent's third album, which was released on the same day.

Meanwhile, the outspoken rapper has again slammed BRITNEY SPEARS' comeback performance at the MTV awards this week, after whinging that he should have been allowed to open the show instead.

He told US radio show Sirius Satellite Radio's Morning Mash Up: "Man, they were trying to get ratings. They knew she wasn't ready and they exploited her."

He added: "They exploited her, they played me and I really don't mess with MTV."

Britney's attempt at performing her new single GIMME MORE was universally panned as "embarrassing" and "zombie like" by critics.


12 September 2007 12:29:58


Also see: KANYE WEST - 50 CENT - BRITNEY SPEARS - MTV



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I am so glad Kanye West is winning in the album race. Thank you Contact Music for not putting him down and calling him a whining B___ like the other celebrity web sites. He is so right in saying that the MTV Awards Producers exploited both he and Britney. Any decent producer or producers would have been aware of her lack of preparation in choreography, preparedness and her mental and physical state. The sad part is that all we heard about in the media the next day was about Britney, Britney and her disaster of a performance --not focusing on the winners and their hard work of the past year, not to mention how much talent and ability it took to get there. Kanye really deserved to win at least one of the five awards he was nominated for.







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