SWAGGER. Ughhhhhh! I hate this word. I guess Undrcrwn took it upon themselves to hold a poll to let the people speak and the shit was unanimous, swagger was voted as the most overused word. Personally I hate the word and can’t stand it when others use it, though I haven’t gotten to the point where I’m gonna juice someone hard for using it, but I think  I might soon.

Here are some quotes they pulled, I’m sure they coulda killed this with more quotes, but they capped it.

“I gotta check myself I gotta Get My Swagger Back”- Usher.
“Hate my game. Hate my Swagger. Hate my fade-away. Hate my hunger”- Kobe (c/o Nike).
“I got my Swagger Right”- Mike Jones.
“Hopped up out the bed turn my Swag On”- Soulja Boy.
“Swagger Jacker”- Cam’Ron.”
“look at my swagga look around every dude wanna have her”- Mary J. Blige.
“They try to copy my swagger, I’m on that next shit now”- Fergie.
“No one on the corner have swagga like us”- Everyone & Their Mama.

So please folks, for the love of god, let’s use something other than “Swagger”, you know its time to drop it when grandparents and parents are using it.

Well with the year coming to a close here is another year-end chart, this time from Billboard. The numbers are based on Nielsen SoundScan. Charts below display the top 10 albums, most listened to song on the radio (how the hell do they measure this one?) and the most digitally downloaded song. I’m actually kinda surprised by some of the results below, seriously Ray J’s “Sexy Can I?”, number 7 as most listened to on radio, REALLY?!?!?! Oh and if you haven’t already check out our staff’s top 10 albums of the year then be sure to read that here.

Top 10 Albums:

1. Alicia Keys’ “As I Am”
2. Josh Groban’s “Noel”
3. Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III”
4. Eagles’ “Long Road Out of Eden”
5. Taylor Swift’s self-titled album
6. Kid Rock’s “Rock N Roll Jesus”
7. Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida”
8. Various artists’ “NOW 26″
9. Carrie Underwood’s “Carnival Ride”
10. Garth Brooks’ “The Ultimate Hits”

Top 10 Most-Listened-To Radio Songs:

1. Alicia Keys’ “No One”
2. Flo Rida’s “Low” featuring T-Pain
3. Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love”
4. Timbaland’s “Apologize” featuring OneRepublic
5. Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop” featuring Static Major
6. Chris Brown’s “With You”
7. Usher’s “Love in This Club” featuring Young Jeezy
8. Jordin Sparks’ “No Air” featuring Chris Brown
9. Ray J’s “Sexy Can I” featuring Yung Berg
10. Rihanna’s “Take a Bow”

Top 10 Most Digitally-Downloaded Songs:

1. Flo Rida’s “Low” featuring T-Pain
2. Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love”
3. Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop” featuring Static Major
4. Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl”
5. Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida”
6. Sara Bareilles’ “Love Song”
7. Timbaland’s “Apologize” featuring OneRepublic
8. Jordin Sparks’ “No Air” featuring Chris Brown
9. Rihanna’s “Disturbia”
10. Madonna’s “4 Minutes” featuring Justin Timberlake

Estelle premiering her latest video for the song “Come Over” which features Sean Paul. This video is directed by renowned director Lil X, he’s worked on videos for a long laundry list of artists, such as: Usher, Ghostface Killah, Common, Jay-Z, Aaliyah and Kanye West to name drop a few.

“There are two arguments going on in your head,” Estelle answers when asked about her getting up close and personal with Paul on the video. “I can’t be fake, but how can I do this without feeling like a slut?”

“Come Over” is the fifth U.K. single and the second U.S. single from Estelle’s second studio album Shine.

MSTRKRFT (read as “Master-Kraft”) is an electronic group out of Toronto. Actually this year at the Toronto Virgin Music Fest they replaced SebastiAn, when he missed his flight and they didn’t disappoint. The group came together in 2005 and consists of JFK (Jesse F. Keeler) and Al-P (Alex Puodziukas). The group has remixed over 30 songs of various genres including the latest remix of John Legend’s song “Green Light”.

On Friday I attended Fist Of God, which is the official name for the MSTRKRFT tour as well as their upcoming album, which is expected to drop in January of 2009. The stop I was at had Felix Cartal opening up, but there will be various openers throughout the tour such as DJ A-Trak, DJ Aoki, LA Riots, Congorock, DJ Assault and the aforementioned Felix Cartal. Blueprint Events, which is known as one of Vancouver’s best electronic promoters for a minute now, was hosting the event as well as the after party.

The event took place at Celebrities Night club and was fully packed, in fact this show could have easily taken place at Commodore Ballroom to accommodate more folks, but nonetheless the vibes were good as people were ready to dance their fuckin’ asses off. The duo came on at around 1am and they immediately had the crowd going crazy, as their sound is fairly distinct with that 4/4 beat and heavy heavy synths.

Like usual they played a range of stuff including their own remixes, from the Presets to Dem Franchise Boyz to Cupid to Daft Punk to Usher to Kylie Minogue and throwing in stuff from their first album as well. The set was filled with energy throughout and both MSTRKRFT and the crowd seemed to be feeding off of one another and it was non-stop. The set ended at about 2:30am, but an encore had JFK continue to rock the house til well past 3am. If you left this party not soaked from head to toe in sweat, then you my friend were not partying hard enough. Overall one word can describe this set. EPIC!

Thanks to Alvaro from Blueprint Events for hooking me up with the opportunity to attend the show. For more of their upcoming events check out www.blueprintevents.ca. For those out in New York on October 10th, MSTRKRFT will be playing at Webster Hall, but they’ll also be at the New Era Flagship store as they have a New Era collaboration that’s dropping.

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MSTRKRFT “Easy Love”

Kylie Minogue “Wow” (MSTRKRFT Remix)

Justice “D.A.N.C.E.” (MSTRKRFT Remix)

Here are the rest of their tour stops:

Fist of God tour:

09-26 Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theatre (with A-Trak, Felix Cartal, LA Riots, Congorock)
09-27 San Diego, CA – House of Blues (with Steve Aoki, Felix Cartal, LA Riots, Congorock)
09-28 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre (with Aoki, Felix Cartal, Congorock)
09-30 Pomona, CA – Glass House (with Felix Cartal, Congorock)
10-01 San Francisco, CA – Mezzanine (with Felix Cartal, Congorock)
10-02 Seattle, WA – Showbox (with Felix Cartal, Congorock)
10-03 Vancouver, British Columbia – Celebrities (with Felix Cartal)
10-04 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Exchange Event Center (with Felix Cartal)
10-06 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue (with Felix Cartal, Congorock)
10-07 Chicago, IL – Metro (with Felix Cartal, Congorock)
10-08 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre (with Felix Cartal, Congorock)
10-09 Columbus, OH 0 Boma (with Felix Cartal, Congorock)
10-10 New York, NY – Webster Hall (with Felix Cartal, Congorock, DJ Assault
10-11 Poughkeepsie, NY – Vassar College (with Felix Cartal, Congorock)
10-12 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of the Living Arts (with Felix Cartal, Congorock)
10-13 Boston, MA – The Estate (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots, Congorock)
10-15 Baltimore, MD – Redrock (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots)
10-16 Charlotte, NC – Forum (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots)
10-17 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots)
10-18 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade Music Park (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots)
10-19 Memphis, TN – Hard Rock Café Memphis (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots)
10-22 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots)
10-23 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots)
10-24 Dallas, TX – House of Blues (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots)
10-25 New Orleans, LA – Voodoo Music Experience: The Tenth Ritual
10-27 Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots)
10-28 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre (with Felix Cartal, LA Riots)
10-31 Salt Lake City, UT – Salt Palace Convention Center (with Felix Cartal)
11-01 Las Vegas, NV – Fabulous Festival

Latest video from Usher for the song “Trading Places”, which is the third single from the album Here I Stand. The video, shot in Venice, California, is directed by Chris Robinson. The song tells a story about a how a couple can switch roles, the woman paying for the date and taking control of everything while the man making up bed and breakfast. “The story is, like, wishful thinking for all men to have a woman who takes control and compliments us the way we compliment them,” Usher explains, adding that he and Robinson “wanted to do something very forward-thinking.”

Also in this video, Usher introduces his new line of lingerie for men and women, which the female model featured in the video is wearing. Currently there is no timeline on when the lingerie line will officially be launched.

Some new tracks for all of you to preview and bang. First up we have Keri Hilson’s new track “Slow Dance”, which is produced by The Royal Court (dudes work closely with Timbaland and did the Omarion “Ice Box” track). The track is definitely a nice slow jam to listen to for the ladies or better yet, with the ladies.

We also have three new tracks from T.I., which I’m definitely anticipating the release of the album. “Swagger Like Us”, Killahbeez’s own AJK sent through to me and all we really could say was 1. drums are nice and 2. T.I. lyrically killed it, other than then neither of us are feelin’ the “Paper Planes” sample that Kanye used for this track. Of all the tracks here, “Let My Beat Pound” is my favorite. But give all three a listen and let us know what you think.

Also included here are new tracks from 88-Keys featuring Kanye West and new Kardinal Offishal featuring The Dream.

Keri Hilson “Slow Dance” (Produced by The Royal Court)

T.I. ft. Kanye West, Jay-Z & Lil’ Wayne “Swagger Like Us”

T.I. “Let My Beat Pound”

T.I. ft. Usher “My Life, Your Entertainment” (Produced by Drumma Boy)

88-Keys ft. Kanye West “Stay Up! (Viagra)”

Kardinal Offishall ft. The Dream “Gimme Some”

Second single for Ne-Yo called “Miss Independent” which is off of the upcoming Year of the Gentleman. His second album is scheduled to drop on September 16 with the first single “Closer” being released back in April. The video is directed by Chris Robinson, who has done videos for Usher, Alicia Keys, Busta Rhymes, T.I., Nas and many other artists. The video also co-stars some beautiful women, Keri Hilson, Gabrielle Union and Lauren London.

A bunch of new songs and a remix or two. Yes by now you’ve already heard Kid Sister’s “Pro Nails”, but this Tepr remix is fuckin’ ill. Oh and Jadakiss is baaaaack! Pretty smokin’ joint, keeps it real gritty. As well we gots a new N.E.R.D. joint called “Anti-Matter’ and I have to say this song is hot, if half the album comes at us like this, well then I’ma definitely have to go out and cop this.

Kid Sister “Pro Nails” Tepr Remix

N.E.R.D. “Anti-Matter”

Jadakiss ft. Rashad “Bang Bang”

Young Jeezy & T.I. ft. Fabolous, Kanye West, Jadakiss, Lil Wayne & Juelz Santana “The Mix Up”

Usher ft. R. Lovette, Michael Jackson & T-Pain “Stop Playin’”

Second single and video from Usher’s newest album Here I Stand. The song is called “Moving Mountains” and the video picks up where “Love In This Club” ends. This is on the ballad tip so be warned that it’s nothing like the first single.

Two new songs leaked today. One is off of Usher’s upcoming album Here I Stand, the other coming from Nas off of what is currently now an Untitled album.

Usher Ft. Jay-Z “Best Thing”

Nas “N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave & The Master)”

For this week’s Mixtape Monday we making it grown and sexy with an RnB mixtape. This is RnB Jumpoff series that Big Mike and Big Stress put together, so as always you can expect alot of exculsive remixes and new stuff you can’t even…I was going to say download, but the fact that you’re downloading it off of this mixtape kills that comment. Anyways get your grown and sexy on and download this mixtape. Tracklistings after the jump. Oh almost forgot to mention, there’s no DJ shoutouts on this, as the last thing you need to hear while getting down to bizness are DJ shoutouts. *Edit one shoutout via who else, the shoutout whore himself DJ Clue.

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Big Mike & Big Stress RnB Jumpoff 39 Tracklistings

01. Keyshia Cole Ft The Game – Pain
02. Mariah Carey Ft R Kelly – Touch My Body Remix Part One
03. Mariah Carey Ft Camron – Touch My Body Remix Part Two
04. Usher Ft T I Young Jeezy – Love In This Club Remix
05. Mariah Carey Ft T Pain – Migrate
06. Beyonce – Beautiful Nitemare
07. R Kelly – Hairbraider
08. Chis Brown – Forever
09. Lloyd – Life
10. Mary J Blige – Stay Down
11. Ashanti – The Way That I Love You
12. Neyo – Closer
13. Lloyd Ft Lil Wayne – All Around The World
14. Bobby Valentino Ft Lil Wayne – Your Smile
15. Colby Odonnis Ft Akon – What You Got
16. Cherish Ft Jermaine Dupri – Shawty Is A Killa Remix
17. Day 26 Ft Fat Joe Rick Ross – Got Me Going Remix
18. Grindmode – Im So High Hot
19. Estelle – Come Over
20. Jazmine Sullivan – I Need You Bad
21. Chris Brown Ft Jordin Sparks – No Air
22. Chris Brown – Take You Down
23. Mariah Carey – Bye Bye
24. Karina Pasian – 16 At War

Some new music for you folks. I’ve been busy and hadn’t had a chance to get some of this stuff up. Enjoy.

Usher ft T.I. & Young Jeezy “Love in the Club” Remix

Young Buck “Hip Hop Can’t Save Me”

Chris Brown “Forever”

G-Unit “Grimey”

Lloyd “Life”

Jim Jones ft. Juelz Santana “Splash”

New video from Usher for his first single, “Love in this Club”, featuring Young Jeezy. Song is produced by Polow Da Don and the video features AJK’s supposed future wife, Keri Hilson. Cameo appearances by Diddy, Kanye West and Rick Ross. Usher’s new album Here I Stand is expected to drop in June.

Here’s the new video for Ryan Leslie’s single “Diamond Girl” off of his upcoming self titled album Ryan Leslie. For those that think he’s new to the game, ya betta check his resume SON! His production history spans several music genres and has worked with artists such as Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Cassie, JoJo, Nina Sky, Danity Kane, Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Donell Jones, Katharine McPhee, New Edition, Cheri Dennis and many more. He helped produced Cassies hit “Me & U”, currently he’s working on his album set to release in June as well as writing songs for Usher.