
Snoop Dogg's album burning up the charts!
According to Billboard
Charts, Da Game Is To Be
Sold, Not To Be Told, is the fastest
selling rap album
of the year. It is also one of the fastest
selling albums of any genre this year.
This is Snoop Dogg's first solo album since leaving Death Row Records and
his third over all. Snoop returns to his old style of rapping found on
Doggystyle and gets a little help from Beats By The Pound. You can find
most of the No Limit Soldiers on this album, but not as much Master PSnoop
Dogg's second album on No Limit Records. The album entitled Top Dogg will
be out in 1999.
New artists and albums from No Limit
No Limit has plans to keep
storming the industry with albums
in the upcoming year. Mystikal's album
has been named Ghetto Fabulous and is due
out in mid-November. Full Blooded and No Limit
Soldiers Compilation has tentative date set
for December. The Commission, now signed to
the label, and Steady Mobb'n - Black Mafia is
set for November release dates. Master P has plans
to release 3 albums a month, taking care of all
the long awaited albums.
Master
P hits the big screen once again
Rapper and label mogul
Master P has joined the cast of "Takedown,"
a true story about the FBI's two-year
pursuit of an alleged computer hacker.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Joe Chapelle
will direct the Dimension Films/Millennium Films feature, which will star
Skeet Ulrich, Russell Wong, Forest Whitaker, and
Scott Cooper. The picture, an adaptation of a
book by Tsutomu Shimomura and New York Times
technology writer John Markoff, will begin shooting
soon.
The Colonel & more movies coming soon
Besides the before mentioned
movie, Master P and Eddie Griffin have
almost completed the movie Foolish which will also feature Wyclef
Jean, Mike Tyson and Andrew Dice Master
P is also in negotiations with Miramax Films
about a role in the upcoming third movie in the
Scream series. No release date for Scream 3 yet.
The No Limit Film, entitled 911 will begin production
next month. Master P will play the part
of a psycho hitman in this movie.