Chamillionaire "Ultimate Victory" Era

[damnnnitzzjohn]

Confirmed on his website, his second album "Ultimate Victory" will be released on March 27, 2007.

This track list has been recently confirmed by an insider at Universal.

Features: Alicia Keys, Kanye West, T.I., Three 6 Mafia, Eminem, Pimp C, Young Buck, Brandy, Trick Daddy, and more.

Producers: Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Mannie Fresh, Swizz Beatz, The Runners, Cool & Dre, and more.

The album features 17 songs and 1 intro.

[Wavey✨️]

Cool. Hopefully another Number 1 song and higher Sophmore Debut.

[colson]

Didn't he just release an album earlier this year? Dang, artists are releasing albums real fast these days.lol

[Wavey✨️]

I think he did or it was 05 or something.

[damnnnitzzjohn]

November 22, 2005 (1.3 million units sold.)

So 16 months (in March)...that isn't that soon.

[damnnnitzzjohn]

You can downloaded his latest mixtape (FEATURING A HOT AKON REMIX) for free on his website

www.chamillionaire.com

[babyboylrtm]

Sounds hot!

[damnnnitzzjohn]

The mix tape is insane!

Features songs over "Hands Up" from Lloyd Banks/50 Cent, "Show Me What You Got" from Jay-Z, and more!

I love it

[jaxxalude]

ALLHIPHOP.COM


Chamillionaire Brushes Off 50 Cent Comments; Talks Ultimate Victory

FlexTarae and Rudy West

Houston rapper Chamillionaire is focusing on his upcoming profanity-free album Ultimate Victory and is brushing off media hype caused by disparaging comments made by rapper 50 Cent.

Chamillionaire dismissed recent remarks made by 50 Cent in a recent interview with Spin magazine.

"Let him [Chamillionaire] go sell gospel records, if he's so f**kin' righteous," an agitated 50 Cent told Spin magazine in response to rappers cleaning up their lyrics. "I can write around the curses if I want to, but you can't tell me to write around the curses."

Chamillionaire, who recently released his street album Mixtape Messiah 3, vowed not waste his creative energies engaged in a feud.

"There are way more interesting things to talk about, besides, beef and dissing people," Chamillionaire told AllHipHop.com. "I'ma leave that to everybody else. There was a time were the Hip-Hop battle was cool, cause it was lyrical or whatever, but now, its stale, people used it as a gimmick."

Instead, Chamillionaire will use his album as a platform to express his opinions on a number of subject's, including President George W. Bush.

"On a record called 'Evening News' I'm speaking from the stand point of a newscaster," Chamillionaire revealed. "I talk about Kobe Bryant, OJ, to Bush, to Katrina, I just shot a video for it. People will see it real soon."

Chamillionaire's hopes Ultimate Victory will raise the bar in Hip-Hop music and set him apart from his peers, creatively.

"Creatively, people are doing the same stuff," Chamillionaire said. "People need to set their own paths. Even with the labels, putting out the same stuff, and look at what's happening to the music! But I'm not feeling that, I'll continue to do what I want to do. Even if it goes against the grain or whatever I gotta do what I do."


Ultimate Victory is due in stores September 18.

[shaq91]

Hip Hop police video is amazing.

[areyoureadytojump]

Music Review: Chamillionaire's 'Victory'
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr., Associated Press Writer

Chamillionaire, "Ultimate Victory" (Universal)

Chamillionaire could be onto something by not using profanity and offensive words in rap lyrics.

The platinum-selling Houston rapper, who says personal growth is responsible for his change of heart, has made the philosophy work, impressively excusing himself from using any cussing or the N-word on his second solo release "Ultimate Victory."

Chamillionaire's clean language on the album even rubbed off on guest rapper Lil Wayne, who strays away from speaking any offensive words on guitar-driven "Rock Star." Even fellow Texan Pimp C on "Welcome To The South" and "Rocky Road" featuring Devin the Dude curse only once.

Although Chamillionaire shuns vulgarity, he doesn't sound like a lame rapper without it. He's still successful with his signature fast-paced raps over catchy hooks. He shows that best on his first single "Hip Hop Police" and on the smooth track "Pimp Mode," featuring Bun B.

Chamillionaire's "The Bill Collecta" featuring Krayzie Bone is a spin-off, production- and melody-wise, from their Grammy-winning single "Ridin." But it falls mightily short of last year's smash hit.

"The Evening News" is an intensely political song where Chamillionaire gets outspoken on various world issues as he rhymes, "9/11 was a calculation, and some would say it was a timed attack."

By Chamillionaire ditching the rough language, he uses more raw and aggressive lyrical content, which should help "Ultimate Victory" avoid the sophomore jinx.

[areyoureadytojump]

Out today in the USA!!

Target: $9.98
Best Buy: $9.99
Circuit City: $9.99

[rehab]

jaxxalude said:

ALLHIPHOP.COM


Chamillionaire Brushes Off 50 Cent Comments; Talks Ultimate Victory

FlexTarae and Rudy West

Houston rapper Chamillionaire is focusing on his upcoming profanity-free album Ultimate Victory and is brushing off media hype caused by disparaging comments made by rapper 50 Cent.

Chamillionaire dismissed recent remarks made by 50 Cent in a recent interview with Spin magazine.

"Let him [Chamillionaire] go sell gospel records, if he's so f**kin' righteous," an agitated 50 Cent told Spin magazine in response to rappers cleaning up their lyrics. "I can write around the curses if I want to, but you can't tell me to write around the curses."

Chamillionaire, who recently released his street album Mixtape Messiah 3, vowed not waste his creative energies engaged in a feud.

"There are way more interesting things to talk about, besides, beef and dissing people," Chamillionaire told AllHipHop.com. "I'ma leave that to everybody else. There was a time were the Hip-Hop battle was cool, cause it was lyrical or whatever, but now, its stale, people used it as a gimmick."

Instead, Chamillionaire will use his album as a platform to express his opinions on a number of subject's, including President George W. Bush.

"On a record called 'Evening News' I'm speaking from the stand point of a newscaster," Chamillionaire revealed. "I talk about Kobe Bryant, OJ, to Bush, to Katrina, I just shot a video for it. People will see it real soon."

Chamillionaire's hopes Ultimate Victory will raise the bar in Hip-Hop music and set him apart from his peers, creatively.

"Creatively, people are doing the same stuff," Chamillionaire said. "People need to set their own paths. Even with the labels, putting out the same stuff, and look at what's happening to the music! But I'm not feeling that, I'll continue to do what I want to do. Even if it goes against the grain or whatever I gotta do what I do."


Ultimate Victory is due in stores September 18.

LMAO 50 is a moron. Chamillionaire siad he wasnt trying to judge anybody, he just wanted to do it for him. 50 is trying too hard.

[reception]

Reviewed by Edna Gundersen
USA Today

Chamillionaire, Ultimate Victory: * * * (out of four) Rapper's chamillionic shift

The Houston rapper who hit the ringtone jackpot with 2005’s Grammy-winning Ridin’ could get cash registers ringing again with some of the catchy, groove-addled tracks on his sophomore return. Yet the Mixtape Messiah doesn’t ride a cliché-fueled gravy train to Ultimate Victory, a surprisingly counterintuitive hip-hop journey.

It’s profanity-free, for starters, placing him dangerously close to such warning-stickerless dweebs as Will Smith. Further defying rap convention (and contrary to his buck-based stage name), Chamillionaire flouts rap’s golden-idol trend by trashing the genre’s materialistic bent and greedy sycophants on such keepers as I Think I Love You, a cautionary tale about money lust, and The Morning News, a swipe at recycle-prone colleagues who crank out “crap music” for easy paychecks. Elsewhere he tackles a wide range of social issues and, on introspective closer The Ultimate Victory, even summons empathy for high-profile artists under the media glare.

One formula he can’t resist is mobilizing peers, and while guests Krayzie Bone, Slick Rick, Lil Wayne and Bun B bring sparks to the mix, Victory ultimately is achieved through Chamillionaire’s charged flow, snappy taunts and unexpected singing talents (the rap-sung We Breakin Up is a soul-kissed gem).

[areyoureadytojump]

Billboard.com:

Chamillionaire's "Ultimate Victory" (Chamillitary/Universal Motown) debuts at No. 8 with 79,000 units, which is a charting best for the Houston rapper. His debut, 2005's "The Sound of Revenge," entered at No. 10 with 130,000.

[sdot23]

I thought he would sell more than 79k.

[SHOOTER]

nick16 said:

I thought he would sell more than 79k.

I think this album will sell steadily over time. I didn't expect a huge first-week debut only because his singles this era weren't nearly as ubiquitous as "Ridin Dirty".

[sdot23]

"Ridin" sold his debut album. I don't think he'll have another single do as well as it did. I hope he can sell at least Gold.

[Jamal]

*flop* I take it he gone be cursing up a storm on that next album...

[**βécky**™]

jamal said:

*flop* I take it he gone be cursing up a storm on that next album...

the album is so good. cursing or no cursing!

[areyoureadytojump]

10/20 chart

48 CHAMILLIONAIRE ULTIMATE VICTORY 17,514 27,346 -36% 124,192

[sdot23]

Chamillionaire: Success[/url]

Forget first week sales—a month after his sophomore album’s release, the Houston MC has a long-term recipe for staying relevant.

Since his breakthrough, The Sound of Revenge, was released in 2005, Chamillionaire has ridden his bold baritone and left-of-center subject matter to an ironic plateau on hip-hop’s topography. He’s a contradictory mix of all things to all people: Mixtape Messiah, societal sage, mainstream moneymaker. His recent release, Ultimate Victory, represents a pursuit of the simpler things: “I thought about different topics, and everything in society, from why people are poor, to living the good life and taking a vacation, and I tried to completely craft all of those into one meaning at the end, which is really just to enjoy life.” After the album debuted at number 8 on the Billboard chart and sold just over 78,000 copies on the strength of the “Hip-Hop Police” single, he’s far from discouraged. With a new video for another conceptual song, “Industry Groupie,” dropping, Cham knows that true victory comes from playing the long-game, not just focusing on first-week sales.

Your last album seemed to get a delayed reaction. Did that effect the way you approached Ultimate Victory?

I remember like it was yesterday, when my album came out the first time, what everybody was saying. I honestly feel like I’m back in that position again. I remember opening the XXL and seeing bad reviews and the bad ratings, and media people who didn’t know who I was. It’s back to that square one again. It’s like, every time you make it over that hurdle, people just gotta applaud you. I feel like I’m an underground artist again. That’s basically what that record’s about.

Ultimate Victory has been out for about a month now. How do you feel about the way it’s moved so far?

I mean, of course it could be better. But I’m really not a person that’s completely focused on first week numbers. People now automatically will compare a year’s worth of work that I did to seven days, or 14 days. That’s crazy. Look at all the top artists that you see visually on TV, that’s running hip hop right now. Probably 80, 90% of them ain’t selling no records. Even the people that are visible on everybody’s records. I think it’s just this formula of, ‘You know what man, we gonna do two weeks worth of commercials, and if we don’t get the response we want immediately, we give up.’ It happens with the label, it happens with the artist, and it trickles down even to the fans now. Fans forget about albums that come out two weeks ago. My thing is, I refuse to let them forget. I stay on it. You can’t break me easily. I’m a person that’s kinda hard to convince of a lot of things. And with fans, you gotta give me a good reason why 50 Cent’s numbers ain’t good.

What you’re hinting at there, that disconnect, seems to have affected every aspect of the industry: fans, artists, labels…

Yeah, definitely. Even fans think they’re the biggest A&Rs now. A lot of people think they can take you what a hit is. The mold for a hit has changed so many times. I don’t care who you are in this planet, if I would’ve brought that “Ridin’ Dirty” record to you, you would not have known it woulda done that. No way. People act like it’s a pop record. It’s a street record; it just ended up crossing over to the pop world. So of course, because I’m a pop artist now, and I’m on freakin’ MTV and all these big channels, a person naturally expects me to come back and do a pop record now. We feel like because we cross over to a pop world, we gotta make pop records. And we really don’t. The new formula for a hit has changed, and you can’t really tell what it is. You just make good music and let the people pick. I’ve been victim of a lot of label politics, but I’m not gonna be one of them artists who complains. I hear so many artists that do that; dudes in their Rolls Royce Phantoms complaining that the label ain’t spending no money on them. The only thing I have an issue with is when I try to take stuff into my own hands and people get mad, like, “Chamillionaire thinking he can do everything.” But it’s just that I’m trying to be productive.

You have a lot of socially conscious material on the album. Do you feel its an artist’s responsibility to help the audience understand what’s going on?

Some people are built for that, and some people aren’t. Every artist isn’t supposed to be up there teaching some message to these kids because every artist ain’t built to be like that. Every artist ain’t gonna be in a CEO position but some people are built for that. And when it comes to hiding the medicine inside the candy to where people have to ask, ‘What is this about?’ I think I’m built for that. You can put that in big quotations: “I feel like I’m a leader.” I can’t help it, that’s all I know how to do. If you ask me a question I’ma answer it in a real way because that’s just me. So when I make my music and run in that booth, what inspires me to get in there and write is just the fact that I know somebody’s listening and what I want to say. I’m a person who gets in the booth and speaks with a purpose. I don’t even care if you’re a gangsta rapper, a conscious rapper, I don’t be feelin’ it if it’s not somebody speaking with a purpose. I don’t even really remember somebody completely speaking with a purpose every time he spoke since ‘Pac. Nobody. People just make words rhyme just to make ‘em rhyme. With me, I’m like, ‘Man, F it,’ and somebody might call it career suicide, but I beg to differ. I’m just trying to fill a void that I feel rap needs, ‘cause I love rap, and I listen to it as a whole genre. I just know what it’s missing in my opinion. And what I just came with is what I think is missing. People never really see the motive in the beginning with me, and then they always find out later. My life has been like that. And I haven’t even begun yet. Now, I’m not saying I’m fitting to be all socially conscious; I’m gonna jump all over the place. I’ma do something completely different next time I come.

You had a solid fan base from mixtapes before you blew up. Do those older fans seem happy about your success?
Yes and no. There’s a big majority of people who are happy to see me make it, and feel like I’m a good representative of Texas and the underground community, so they’ll root for me to make it even further. People that will be real happy that I won a Grammy. People who will be real happy that I actually broke all these ringtone records because back in the day, there’s so many people that used to be at home, listening to my mixtapes and hoping for me to make it. But we really couldn’t fathom it until I really got there, so now it’s still like a dream come true for them. A lot of people are living the whole experience through my eyes. But then again, you got some people who are like, “Chamillionare, it ain’t the same.” Or “He’s crossing over, he’s commercializing.” And that happens, especially with a record like “Ridin’ Dirty,” which started as a street record. A lot of people loved it in the underground then once it became so commercialized that little kids in the suburbs are singing it, then it came to the point when people are like, “Aw man, I’m tired of that song.” That’s just the natural way of people, and the natural way of hip-hop.

Coming from an underground mentality, you must understand how people can be protective of your music, not wanting it to be perceived as commercial.

Yeah, definitely. I feel the same way for certain things. Look at the whole gold teeth thing, how that got out of control. Or even screwed music, how it just started becoming more commercialized, and everybody started screwin’ all kind of Justin Timberlake albums. Before it was a rawer, underground type of feeling. A lot of people wish I could completely stay that young, raw, hungry cat that was dissin’ major labels. But then considering the fact that I’ve traveled and seen all the world and seen something a lot bigger than the little pot I was aiming for, it makes me understand the whole empire a little bit more, concentrate a little more, and do some things that some people might not understand. But then, as an artist, people always attach themselves with whatever part of my life they remember. If they loved the part when I was selling mixtapes out the trunk, and doing freestyles about bling-bling and diamonds, then they attach themselves to that, and tell themselves now that that’s me. They don’t realize that it’s been an evolution where I’ve grown into the person that I am now.

[areyoureadytojump]

11/17 chart

122 CHAMILLIONAIRE ULTIMATE VICTORY 6,322 7,374 -14% 159,291