A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

JESUS WALKS WITH ME, BUT GUCCI GIVES ME THE BLING-BLING: Yes, it's time for another exciting episode of American Brandstand, which studies product placement in the songs on the Billboard Top 20 singles charts. Interesting tidbits:

• Top brands placed (in order) are Cadillac, Hennessy, Mercedes, Rolls Royce, and Gucci.
• Kanye West gives brands the most product placements (19 brands in 4 singles, everything from Boost nutritional supplement to Geico insurance)
• "The most violent lyric of the year?"--"The AK go chop chop chop chop/The SK go fire fire fire fire/The AK go chop chop chop chop/The SK go fire fire fire fire." (Makes the list because it's a product placement for AK-47.)
• The only non hip-hop song to contain a product placement? Jessica Simpson's "With You," which mentions Levi's. (Apparently "Redneck Woman," which plugs Wal-Mart and Victoria's Secret, didn't make the chart.)
• Jadakiss' question "Why didn't they make the CL6 with a clutch?" is cited as "the first example of hip-hop lyrics as consumer feedback." No answer is yet available to that question, or Jadakiss' other burning questions, including "Why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets?"

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