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Overall, Sony's promotion for Born to Reign was awful. Given I wasn't as big a music fan back in 2002, I didn't even know Will had a new album coming out until I saw it on sale in a Wal-Mart flyer a couple of weeks after the album actually had come out. I was a fan, I had BWS and Willenium, you think with any sort of promotion, I would have known Will was releasing a new album. I was pissed. <p> While Born to Reign was not the best album Will ever released, in comparision to the rest of the rap game at the time, it was pretty solid. Block Party, I Can't Stop and How Da Beat Goes, at least I feel, had potential to be singles, but none were released. Promotion for that album reached an all-time low in the music industry, which was quite a disappointment for me, and still is.

Lost and Found is such a great album, I can listen to it over and over again without getting sick of it.

It is nice to hear Jazzy Jeff referenced, but I too think that the show is terribly overrated. I tried watching it once and couldn't watch more than 5 minutes.

It might help sales a little bit, I wouldn't expect any major gains, though. It is nice to see him on the album, getting some respect.

It's a start, hopefully the rise continues!

I agree w/ njc2b5, the new beat is better but the "get on the floor" loses its effect with someone else saying it.

Awesome review, that is the kind of respect he deserves.

Well, I bet that Taurus doesn't beat by 1993 Buick Century Wood Paneled Station Wagon. Everyone calls it the "shaggin' wagon." HA!

Right now, I'm listening to the new radio edit of Party Starter, and I'm liking it, and I agree w/ fuq that it should be 100 pages, a nice round number.

The new radio edit has a better beat, more to listen to, gives it a little more flavor.

Don't be mad at Julie if she didn't know it was fake, it wasn't her fault.

That is a great story, Julie. It is absolutely hilarious.

Yeah, those sales by Fat Joe are a big disappointment. I am not really a fan of him, but I was expecting much more out of him, both of his singles are really weak lyrically and the sales represent that.

No problem

Frenetic gets the sales each week from urbanconnect.com, so maybe you should try that website.

Nice to see it go up.

Yeah, I have noticed that airplay for Diamonds is already slipping. The remix is much better, and is the one that should be with the video, because he actually talks about the blood diamonds that are in the video. Anyways, I think that Will will eventually go platinum, how long depends on how successful "Party Starter" is and when and if "Tell Me Why" is released.

I'd say about 3 times, it is so good, I can't seem to stop listening to it.

Yeah, in the grand scheme of things, hip hop sales are really dropping, which makes it all the more impressive that Will can keep his sales so consistent. It will be interesting to see what kind of effect Party Starter will have on sales.

I thought sales were going up, well hopefully next week they will after Live 8.

Yeah, I'm waiting!

Personally, I would be happy to see them on tour, no matter what kind of setting. As long as they are touring, it would be pretty sweet and it would definitely help album sales.

That's awesome, hopefully other stations start to do the same thing.

Not that bad, still an improvement from last week, at least.

Once the video is out and all radio stations have it, I have no doubts that this song will be big.