BIRDMAN SPEAKS ON COMMON & DRAKE BEEF "WE RIDE OR DIE"

Cash Money Records CEO Birdman has stepped up to discuss the current beef brewing between Young Money's Drake and rap veteran Common and said there will be no diss records from his team. While Birdman downplayed the artists' feud, he did say Cash Money is fully behind Drizzy. "Drake the homie so we ride or die. Ain't no second questions about that, but we never been a brand to make records and want to make money off of making records of other people that's not what we about," Birdman told radio host Big Boy. "So to me, however the young homie deal with it we behind him, we supporting him 100 percent with our life so that's just what it is. Ain't no other way. Drake the lil' homie that's blood, that's family, and ain't no siding with that. It's Drake or nothing." (Power 106)

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COMMON SENDS ANOTHER SHOT AT DRAKE

Yesterday, Common dropped a "Stay Schemin'" remix going at Drake. Common felt Drake responded to his record "Sweet" from earlier this month which common took aim at the canadian star calling him "the rapper for the moment" with enough said hear it for yourself...Should Drake Respond?

(COMMON "STAY SCHEMIN REMIX" DRAKE DISS)

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COMMON & YOUNG JEEZY FIRST WEEK PROJECTIONS ARE IN

Young Jeezy and Common's new albums, Thug Motivation 103 and The Dreamer/The Believer, are both reportedly en route to dominate the sales chart next week. Based on one-day estimates, Jeezy's long-awaited LP will easily outsell Common's new solo project.

Def Jam/IDJ's Young Jeezy album, Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition, hits fourth, looks set for an impressive first week sales number of between 200-225k, based on one-day reports from those retailers who took time out from making fun of Newt Gingrich's double chin to respond. The South Carolina-born rapper's previous album, The Recession, debuted with nearly 260k upon its release in Sept. 2008. Windy City hip-hop icon Common's Think Common/Warner Bros. bow, The Dreamer/The Believer, looks headed for first-week sales of between 55-65k. His last album, 2008's Universal Mind Control, on G.O.O.D./Geffen, debuted with 82k. (HITS Daily Double)

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