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The blogs were kind of quiet again today, but we still managed to scrape together five download-worthy songs for the playlist. Shakira linked up with Wayne and Timbo, Wiz Khalifa finally dropped a real single, and some unknown kid from Virginia dropped one of the hottest indie rocks tracks of the year. That’s not all of it either. Keep reading for the MP3 streams and download links…

SONG: “Give It Up To Me”
ARTIST: Shakira f/ Lil’ Wayne & Timbaland
DOWNLOAD: [LINK]
• Ryan Seacrest premiered this track on his radio show this morning. Keeping it 100, this one is a little disappointing for all the big names featured on it.

SONG: “This Plane”
ARTIST: Wiz Khalifa
DOWNLOAD: [LINK]
• Wiz has been killing mixtapes for a minute now, but he finally has an album on the way. This is the first single from Deal Or No Deal and it sounds pretty good. Dope album title too.

SONG: “Bye Bye Bayou”
ARTIST: LCD Soundsystem
DOWNLOAD: [LINK]
• James Murphy made one of the best albums of the decade back in 2007 and the next project drops in March. This won’t be on the new album but it’s worth a listen if you’re a fan LCD’s previous work.

SONG: “Confirmation”
ARTIST: Wild Nothing
DOWNLOAD: [LINK]
• These one-man-bands are really starting to take over the indie rock scene, aren’t they? It’s hard to complain when the music is good though. Most of these “bands” will pass by, but this Wild Nothing guy has a chance of sticking around if he keeps making songs like this.

SONG: “Face Drop (Remix)”
ARTIST: Sean Kingston f/ Pleasure P
DOWNLOAD: [LINK]
• It’s no secret that we make fun of the kid sometimes, but yeah, Sean Kingston makes hits. We don’t necessarily think this falls into that category, but your girl who only listens to Z100 might. Send it over to her.

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Anyway, after seeing this poor excuse for artwork, we decided to go back though the year’s music releases and compile a list of the 10 Worst Album Covers of 2009 (so far)…

ALBUM: iDon, Don Omar
RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: Doesn’t this remind you of some Y2K “new millennium” cheesy techno graphic shit?

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ALBUM: Serious Japanese, Teriyaki Boyz
RELEASE DATE: January 21, 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: Looks like Invasion of the Hypebeasts. Call ‘em Nigo’s seeds. Ayo!

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ALBUM: The Rebirth, Bobby Valentino
RELEASE DATE: February 10, 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: This cover could sell hair texturizer. Music? Not so much.

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ALBUM: R.O.O.T.S., Flo Rida
RELEASE DATE: March 31, 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: We get it, you work out—put on a shirt already! And is that an organizational map? #wheretheydothatat… Damn, Alex Haley is rolling in his grave.

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ALBUM: New Jack City II, Bow Wow
RELEASE DATE: March 31, 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: Of all the Jay-Z covers to attempt to rip off, why Kingdom Come?

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ALBUM: No Line on the Horizon, U2
RELEASE DATE: March 2, 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: It’s basically a visual representation of our interest in the album.

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ALBUM: Skinny Jeans and a Mic, New Boyz
RELEASE DATE: September 15, 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: Caushun saw this one and was like, “Whoa, that’s a little suspect.”

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ALBUM: Endgame, Megadeth
RELEASE DATE: September 15, 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: Nothing says heavy metal (or possible disturbed teen) like a swarm of flies and a slew of prisoners with mohawks. Yawn.

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ALBUM: Hot Mess, Cobra Starship
RELEASE DATE: August 11, 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: The title says it all. Hey, we don’t care if we’re supposed to like this group…we.just.don’t.

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ALBUM: Survivor Skills, KRS-ONE & Buckshot
RELEASE DATE: September 15, 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: Looks like two old-timers joined the local YMCA rock-climbing club! Way to go, guys!

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**BONUS** ALBUM: The Swine Flu Mixtape,Tony Yayo and DJ Whoo Kid

RELEASE DATE: May 2009
COMPLEX SAYS: It’s probably in poor taste to name your mixtape after something that’s killing old people and children—but hey, that’s Yayo. This looks like something former NYC Mayor Giuliani would have wanted banned from the Brooklyn Museum…on second thought, we fucks with this one!

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Interview by Grace Efuwape

CLIP #1: “NOBODY IN THE U.S. GOT A BLACKBERRY BOLD”
Kingston says: Yo, look how many views that got. That’s crazy. Yeah, that was a big issue. My chain didn’t get robbed. I had sent my assistant to send a package to my jeweler in New York. The jeweler even showed the security cameras to prove he never received the package. The assistant isn’t around anymore; I fired him. Like, why would you put $500 insurance on something worth $500,000? What part of the game is that? [Laughs.]

CLIP #2: “I’M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE” SPENCER PRATT’S RAP DEBUT
Kingston says: Being on The Hills was great ’cause I had a blast with Audrina. We shot the scene when she was interning at the record label, Epic. I never ran into Spencer though. Oh, he’s rapping now? Look at this. His swag is…nah. He’s probably a cool dude but I don’t know about this. [Laughs] Spencer Pratt? Sounds like Kyla Pratt. I mean, Kyla Pratt can do a better job than him.

CLIP #3: “THE E.N.D. OF DAYS” BY IT’S THE REAL
Kingston says: Yeah I heard about the fight between Will.I.Am and Perez Hilton. [Laughs]. You saw the Spectacular video? [Laughs]. He did another video. Why would you do that? That makes people talk about it even longer. As soon as I saw it, I hit him up about it. He’s not gay. I know for a fact that he’s not gay ’cause he has a girlfriend. You ever been to a preview of his show before? They grind on the floor with their pants off like that all the time; nobody ever says nothing about that. On their last single on Late Night Special, they grinded with the same panties he had on. No homo. They grind on the floor and don’t nobody never talk about it but he does it on World Star and people wanna talk. That’s what he does [Laughs]. I mean, it’s not my direction but to each his own. I know he’s not gay though, I’ll tell you that. I don’t know about the Will.I.Am and Perez Hilton incident. I don’t really think that Will.I.Am’s manager did that and now Will.I.Am is saying it’s a fan.

CLIP #4: “VIDEO MODEL CALLS SEAN KINGSTON A GROUPIE”
Kingston says: Yeah, I don’t wanna talk about it. Nah, there’s no side to the story. She’s a stalker. She’s the stalker. Her story is right but it’s the other way around. On the real though, I don’t wanna talk about that. I had a crazy stalker though. I had a girl that drove behind my tour bus on the Chris Brown tour. She was just crazy, just trying to get my autograph. Then I come back here to New York, this is about two years ago after going on 106 & Park to drop “Take You There” and I come back and she’s standing in front of my hotel. I don’t know how she knew where I was staying at. It tripped me up. I really don’t mess with groupies; I’m really focused. I guess [Chyna] is a groupie. Call her a groupie. [Laughs].

CLIP #5: “PASS THE DUTCHIE” MUSIC VIDEO FROM MUSICAL YOUTH
Kingston says: I love this. I wasn’t even born when this came out. These kids are how old? They look mad young and they singing about the Dutchie. I can understand if they were like 13, 14, or 15 years old but they were young.

CLIP #6: “BEAUTIFUL GIRLS” BY JOJO
Kingston says: I like it. Her version didn’t go nowhere. She’s beautiful though; I’d go out with her. I remember the rumor that I was going out with Paula Deanda but I only worked with her and that was it. I dig Jordin Sparks but she’s linked up already. I think Meagan Good is on a whole ‘nother level than Megan Fox. That girl is gorgeous from head to toe. I idolize her every time I see her. There is nothing wrong about that girl. That girl is B-E-A-U-TI-FUL, toes and everything. [Laughs.]

CLIP #7: ELEPHANT MAN AND BUJU BANTON FREESTYLE WITH TIGGA
Kingston says: I like Elephant Man. Tigga can rap; he’s dope. [Laughs.] He was killing it when he used to freestyle in the Bassment at Rap City. Yeah, that was tight. Tigga did his thing. Elephant Man took it. He killed it though. He switched it up; sped it up. I like that. That was real nice.

That’s right, Complex has chosen our 6 favorite trendsetters to grace our latest split cover: Aaron “Yung L.A.” Reid, Officer Ricky and Sean Kingston on one side, and Stack$, Yung Berg and Nefu Da Don on the other. The issue hits stands today, so go cop it! Get full size covers below…

For the first installment of the our Ball Boy of the Week column, we chose the Jamaican rap/”reggae” artist responsible for one of the most annoyingly infectious hits of late, “Beautiful Girls.” Now, we had no problem with dude, we were happy he was getting his shine on, and even kinda liked that song he did with Juelz. But all that success must have went to dude’s head, ’cause lately he’s been acting a damn fool. Don’t believe us? Read on to see 5 reasons why Sean Kingston is our Ball Boy of the Week…

5. HE WAS ON MTV’S SUPER SWEET 16 18
All press is good press, but damn. The public hated all those spoiled, stuck up, ungrateful chicks so much that MTV made a show called “Exiled” where some of the former Sweet 16 girls go around the world to basically learn how the other half lives. Why the hell would you choose to associate yourself with them? Maybe Seamn should be exiled, somewhere far far away from here.
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4. HE REMADE HIS DEBUT SINGLE INTO “BOLLYWOOD GIRLS”

“Beautiful Girls” was suspect enough when it was first released. We thought we’d never hear it again after he moved on to his second and third singles, but no, Sean went for that international gwap by remixing that shit into “Bollywood Girl.” We understand you wanna be worldwide and all, Sean, but you could have at least made a new song with, say, an actual Indian person.
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3. HE REALLY THINKS HE’S A CEO

We get it'he went platinum, so now, according to the rap handbook, he gets his own labels with his own artists and all that. Great. But just because you pull a dude off Myspace into the studio with you, and your brother answers your cell phone and answers your emails, that doesn’t make you a CEO. Holler back when I.Y.A.Z., the first artist from T.I.M.E. (Time Is Money Entertainment), moves some units. Remember, even Mike Jones has a label.
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2. HE BUYS RETARDED JEWELRY

At a time when the economy is in the shitter, rappers are getting robbed for their jewels like it was the '80s. We found it odd that Sean would by so much jewelry (in addition to the crib and super cars)'hopefully li’l big homie put some money in the bank in case that next album flops. Or in case he gets Yung Berg’d. Wait…didn’t that already happen? If you ask Sean, he didn’t get robbed for his crayon box chain'he sent it through Fed Ex and just forgot to insure it. Riiiight…
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1. HIS VIDEO BLOG IS HORRIBLE

For the most part, video blogs are hit and miss for rappers. They’re supposed to show us another side of the rapper that we don’t usually see through music or in the videos. When they’re good, like Soulja Boy’s, we tend to ease up on the hate. But when they’re bad, like Sean Kingston’s, it just reminds us of why we don’t fuck with the artist in the first place. Take for instance the Vlog posted above. This dude really said “they don’t have internet in China”! And then he said that “no one in the world has a Blackberry Bold,” in the worst rendition of “Swagger Like Us” EVER. Poor kid. Someone needs to take his video camera away.

Be clear: We are not talking about video blogs from dudes like Diddy, Weezy, and Soulja Boy'though they are no less asinine, you’re allowed a little slack when you’ve proven you have actual fans. For this poll, we’re aiming directly at the lames who put out more web videos than actual music, the ones that clog up worldstarhiphop.com with their mindless fuckery. So who’s the worst video blogger of the bunch?

Click here to see the candidates and cast your vote!