NYC was filled with celebs last night as they flocked to the many exclusive events that went down in the city that never sleeps. Chris Brown, Fabolous, and supermodel Jessica White attended Swatch’s launch party for their New Gents Collection at the Gansevoort.

While, our fav U.K. chick Estelle made her rounds yesterday along with Trey Songz, Method Man and others who came out to the launch party of Def Jam Rapstar at the Hudson Hotel.

“We da best” aka DJ Khaled shared DJ’n duties with Funkmaster Flex…

Donnis and Young Joc…

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Last week, Harlem’s Prince, Juelz Santana celebrated his 27th birthday at NYC’s M2 UltraLounge with celebrity friends, Maino, Ashanti, Snoop Dogg, Lil Kim and more. What was supposed to be a night of endless bottle poppin’ and good times ended up turning into a HOT GHETTO MESS and we KNOW why.

Now, Juelz ain’t no Jay-Z, so the crowd Juelz attracts is definitely of a different stature. And boy was it was evident that night, especially when a fight broke out. Some random Rev Run look-a-like jumped the VIP line and ended up getting his a$$ beat. From the looks of it, Maino was ready to thump on homie too. C’mon son…Maino you should know better! Guess it’s true what they say, you can take a n*igga out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of a n*gga.

In addition, M2 is one of NYC’s top hotspots and of course everyone wants to party with celebrities. Which is why is no surprise the whole hood was at Juelz’ birthday bash. From Uncle Roscoe to Aunt Neicy, you name it…everybody and their mama was up in M2! But seriously what do you expect when you have an event that’s open to the PUBLIC! Nothing but goons and bird chicks flock to the scene.

And no matter where you go some people just don’t know how to act… especially at the club! The club is like a theater everyone wants to perform. From the moment those doors open, the stuntin’ begins! Aside from a fight breaking out, word is two clubgoers were also arrested for buying up the bar with a phony credit card! Those fools tried to front like they were highrollers and spent over $28,000 on bottles of vodka and champagne…even sending a bottle Juelz’ way. Yet they were far from ballers…the nerve!

All in all this is why Hip-hop gets clowned on a daily basis. If you haven’t noticed by now, Hip Hop is not what it used to be, but rather a JOKE! This is the very reason why high-end lines like Louis Vuitton and Gucci don’t want us in their store, ’cause a selective group of Hip Hop-ers act like a bunch of wild animals. Sure it’s wrong to assume and albeit stereotype, but when incidents like this break out regularly, especially during happy times… can you blame them for thinking the way they do? Poor Juelz just wanted to celebrate his birthday…better luck next time! Hopefully next time he’ll leave Harlem and his goons at the block. You can’t take everyone everywhere.

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ANY THOUGHTS?!

It’s been projected that Mr. Birthday Sex aka Jeremih is expected to crush Maino in next week’s album sales. Word is Jeremih’s debut album is expected to sell between 45,000 and 50,000 in its first week. While, Maino’s long delayed debut, If Tomorrow Comes… is expected to sell a depressing 18,000-23,000. Hmm…I wonder how many CD’s Def Jam is going to cop to make sure Jeremih comes out on top?!

It’s apparent that Hip-hop definitely isn’t what it used to be, but who is to blame?! New York City gave birth to the genre and now you can’t even find a single New York rapper who’s murdering the charts. Wondering why?! According to Jadakiss, New York rappers are the ones to blame for Hip-hop’s tragic decline. Apparently, egos kept getting bigger which in turn allowed rappers to completely lose sight of what Hip-hop actually meant, thus allowing the South to completely takeover the game. He tells HipHopGame,

“New York took a hit when everybody started getting money. Everybody was doing alright in record sales. Everybody had some success but then the ego started playing a part. From then, nobody wanted to do songs with each other. N*ggas were on some, ‘I’m not f*cking with that n*gga. I’m not doing that!’ That hurt everybody in a whole and everybody stopped dropping albums”.

He adds, “…Wherever, the South, the West came, linked up, and collected that money for certain amount of years. I just feel like this is going to give everybody some sense of inspiration to come. You got coming. You got more North artists that’s gon’ come back. You know Red [Cafe] is doing his thing. Maino is doing his thing. This gon’ give everybody motivation to put music out, so then, nobody has to sit down and complain”.

I completely agree with Jada. New York really fell off the map and it’s time we take the throne back!