Florida Sentinel Bulletin

In just four days since its release, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV has shattered a iTunes record for first week sales set previously by Jay-Z and Kanye West’s collaborative LP Watch The Throne.

According to HHNM, Wayne has moved more than 300,000 copies of C4 in the digital music store in just for days, surpassing a record breaking seven day span for WTT which moved 290,000.

The fourth installment of Wayne’s Tha Carter series is now expected to move between 925,000 and 975,000 copies. Previous estimates had the album selling up to 900,000 units.

Jay-Z’s flagship NYC 40/40 Club is under renovation and under fire from the New York City District Council of Carpenters.

The union is claiming that the company which was hired to make those renovations, Conelle Construction Corp., “does not meet area labor standards, including providing or fully paying for family healthcare and pension for all of its carpenter craft employees,” according to a statement.

The NYCDCC also claims Conelle Construction Corp. is paying its workers “substandard wage” and hold owner Jay-Z responsible saying the rapper “has an obligation to see that area labor standard are met for construction work on their future location.”

Protestors have placed four nearly twenty foot blown up rats facing the club. There is also a banner-sized sign that reads: Shame On The 40/40 Club (Jay-Z) For Hurting New York City.

This is not the first time Jigga has come under fire for his club’s alleged shady practices. Jay was sued by workers at the flagship location back in 2008 for allegedly violating minimum wage laws.

The 40/40 club is expected to reopen its doors November 1.

Chris Brown lucked up when his $22,000 Rolex watch, which was accidentally tossed in the crowd during his MTV VMAs performance last week, was returned by a loyal fan.

The star singer has since found this fan, and for returning his expensive Rolex, Brown has rewarded the fan by inviting her to his upcoming show in Cincinnati, Ohio.

ATLANTA — Grammy-winning rapper T.I., who was moved to a halfway house this week after months in prison, is locked up again at a federal penitentiary, with his lawyer citing a flap over using a luxury bus to report to a halfway house.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons website Friday shows the rapper at the Atlanta penitentiary with a release date of Sept. 29.

The 30-year-old T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, was released from a federal lockup in Arkansas on Wednesday and made the 375-mile trip to Atlanta in a gleaming motor coach. His attorney, Steve Sadow, told The Associated Press late Thursday that federal officials moved T.I. because of an issue involving his transportation to Atlanta.

T.I. had been serving time for violating probation in a weapons case.

Singer Rihanna isn’t too happy with a Beverly Hills home she purchased in 2009.

Rihanna is suing over a hillside home that she claims has serious structural defects that rendered in uninhabitable.

The pop singer on Wednesday sued Prudential California Realty and several companies that designed and inspected the home. The S&M singer’s lawsuit claims she would not have paid $6.9 million for the home in 2009 if she had known about the problems.

She claims water leaked into several rooms of the house from a balcony that lacks the proper slope and drainage after a rainstorm in early 2010. The suit states the damage left the home “uninhabitable.”

She claims Landmark Design Group, which remodeled the home, has failed to make necessary repairs.

Singer/actress Teyana Taylor was involved in a physical altercation with a movie director.

Teyana and the director — Jean-Claude La Marre — were filming Gang of Roses 2 last weekend outside L.A. … when Teyana asked to be taken home because the pain was just too much to bear.

According to 20-year-old Teyana, she asked multiple times to be taken home by car service — and when La Marre continually refused to allow that … she got in his face and started shouting. Teyana claims La Marre shouted back, “Don’t f**king scream at me bitch” … and pushed her in the face, hitting her aching tooth.

La Marre claims he only defended himself … AFTER Teyana “jumped on me and began swinging” — but says he never hit her. Whoever started it … we’re told several crew members had to separate them.

Teyana says during the scrap her shirt was torn open (above), she got popped in the nose and mouth — and the blood ended up on her denim shorts. Reports also claim that La Marre is planning to finish the movie and killing off Teyana Taylor’s character.

This isn’t the first time the 20-year-old socialite was involved in an altercation. Earlier this year, Taylor was charged with beating a chick down in a Los Angeles recording studio. The charges were later dropped.

Spike Lee signed on to be executive producer of the hip-hop horror film entitled, You’re Nobody Til Somebody Kills You.

The title is adapted from the record by The Notorious B.I.G and the movie features Big Daddy Kane, Doug E. Fresh and Ed Lover in the cast. The story follows two New York City homicide detectives that are chasing a suspect that has been murdering hip-hop artists.

Spike’s protégé Michael A. Pinckney is directing the horror flick which is slated to premiere at the Williamsburg International Film Festival in Brooklyn this September.

Romeo Miller, 21, is continuing in his business endeavors and launching a new positive youth campaign, College Boyys Back to School “I AM THE NEXT…” campaign.

His College League Apparel is also launching a women’s clothing line, College Girlls, alongside “I AM THE NEXT…” as a cross-promotion.

Romeo and College League Apparel donated school supplies in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Mississippi, and Memphis with hopes for the program to reach even more communities next year.

Miller is currently the head of No Limit Forever Records.

ATLANTA — Atlanta-based rapper T.I. has been released one month early from prison, where he was serving a weapons violation sentence.

Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke said the artist, whose real name is Clifford Harris, was released Wednesday morning from the Forrest City low-security prison in Arkansas.

The rapper was sentenced to 11 months in prison in October for breaking his federal probation after he was arrested in Los Angeles on drug charges. He was set to be released at the end of September, but prison authorities released him a month early.