With "How We Do" still peaking on video countdowns, Chuck Taylor is set to premiere his new video," Hate It Or Love It," later this week. Slipping one position, Game's numbers have declined 17% for the second consecutive week. In its 5th week, The Documentary lands at #3 and sells 131,132 units -bringing its total to 1,334,130 copies according to Nielsen's Soundscan.

Five slots behind, Eminem has rebounded into the Top 10. With a 9% boost, Encore skips three positions to #8 and moves 78,000 copies. The LP has sold 4,103,853 sets in 15 weeks.

Meanwhile, Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz are pacing themselves to reach double platinum by next month. To date, Crunk Juice has sold 1,888,167 CDs. In its 15th week, Jon and his comrades slip one spot to #18 and push 59,873 albums.

Further down the charts, Ludacris is continuing to slide despite ironically premiering the "Number One Spot" video earlier this week. Eleven weeks into the charts, Red Light District slips four spots to #32 and sells 43,916 copies -bringing its total to 1,289,752 records sold to date.

Right behind, Kanye West is benefiting from his Grammy performance and his three wins, which include Best Rap Song for "Jesus Walks" and Best Rap Album. This week, Kanye jumps 201% and an impressive 66 positions to rank at #33. After a full-year on the charts, 52 weeks, The College Dropout has sold 2,557,604 LPs -including 43,688 this week.

At #35, T.I. has hiked his units behind the strong street buzz of "U Don't Know Me." The video premiered across several video outlets last week and is quickly gaining momentum. In its 12th week, Urban Legend sells 40,107 sets. That's 4,384 more units than the previous week and climbs 7 spots to #35. The opus has sold 756,756 units to date, according to Nielsen's Soundscan.

Meanwhile, Nelly's Grammy nominations did little to rejuvenate Suit's sales. In its 23rd week, the effort is slowly headed towards triple platinum with 2,744,670 CDs sold to date. With a low visibility on radio and TV, Nelly continues to slip -selling 38,232 LPs; some 7,831 units less than last week.

Lastly, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z and Linkin Park maintain and Queen Latifah gets a gold plaque. After strong starts, Snoop Dogg, Jay and his LP buddies have both quietly been losing sales in the last few weeks. In its 14th week, R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece caves three positions to #38 and moves 35,425 CDs while Collision Course sinks six spots to #41 and sells 32,613 units. The albums have sold 1,358,720 and 1,522,656 copies respectively. In conclusion, Queen Latifah's Grammy Awards hosting gig and live performance has catapulted her sales to 29,166 records this week. With a 50% increase, her album climbs 23 spots to #48. This week, The Dana Owens Album goes gold with 529,292 units sold to earn Latifah her first plaque since 1993's Black Reign.

Next week, look for Hip-Hop releases to hold on until 50 Cent hits the charts on March 3rd.

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Never one the lack confidence or ego, Kanye West recently announced that he plans to charge for appearing on magazine covers in the future.

According to NY Daily News, Kanye said that artists help boost magazine sales by appearing on their covers and that they should get a cut of the publications' revenues.

"These magazines make money from ads and subscriptions. But I know that part of what drives subscriptions and ads is who these magazines put on the cover," West offered during a recent brunch in Beverly Hills. "So if you're putting me on the cover and people are buying your magazine because of me, why shouldn't I get paid to be on that cover? You are going to have to pay me to do magazine covers now!"

Meanwhile, a survey conducted by Daily News' Lowdown section revealed that editors from the country's top magazines are confident that Kanye won't be able to command a fee to appear on magazine covers.

"Our West Coast editor, Chris Huvane, was at that brunch, and he sent me an e-mail that Kanye West is insane. When I read it, I did a spit-take," Jim Nelson of GQ magazine told the News. "Kanye clearly does not understand the sacred economics of magazines. We're notoriously cheap." Ebony magazine's Lynn Norment added, "I love Kanye, but we don't pay for covers. Never have and never will. He has a lot of learning to do."

The Louis Vutton Don previously appeared on the cover of Ebony's April 2004 issue free of charge. In other West news, the super producer/rapper is prepping to release a video for "Spaceship." Ye directed and starred in the clip. "Spaceship" marks The College Dropout's 6th video. To date, the album has produced clips for "Through The Wire," "Two Words," "All Falls Down," "Jesus Walks," " The New Work Out Plan" and now "Spaceship."

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PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is upset with Sean "P. Diddy" Combs for recently hosting a South Beach party featuring live penguins as entertainment.

According to PETA, six penguins were put on a Plexiglas platform floating in a pool during the opening of South Beach's Hotel Victor last Friday. Partygoers told the New York Post's Page Six that the penguins grouped together in the corner of the platform in fear of slipping into the pool.

"The penguins were obviously bothered by the crowd and the loud music," an attendee told the Post. "They were all huddled into one corner facing away from everything, trying to get out. Many guests stared in shock, and others started yelling, 'Save the penguins!' It was a sad sight and a terrible idea."

According to PETA spokesman Michael McGraw, the use of penguins during hot weather possibly broke cruelty-to-animals laws.

"Penguins live in very cold climates, so the heat was probably unbearable for them. They're very sensitive to temperatures, so if it was as hot as we've heard, it's a wonder they didn't collapse," McGraw explained. "In any case, they were likely terrified. We are now looking into whether having the penguins there broke any cruelty-to-animals laws. We're asking anyone who was at the party to call us with any information."

Though PETA believes Diddy is responsible for the entertainment, Puff's publicist assured that the mogul was only hosting the fiesta and that the penguins weren't his idea.

"He had nothing to do with planning the party and nothing to do with the hotel," Rob Shuter, Combs' publicist revealed.

Diddy has had run-ins with PETA in the past. In 2001, the organization canceled a protest targeting his Sean John clothing line after Puff swore to remove fur from his collection.

"We sent him flowers and a vegan chocolate champagne bottle," McGraw shared. "And the next day, there was fur all over his runway. We were duped. We later named him to PETA's annual worst-dressed list."

Despite PETA's allegations, the Hotel Victor spokesman contends that the penguins were "warm-weather" species from South Africa "trained specifically for entertainment, expositions and television commercials. At the close of the event, the handlers notified us that the penguins were unaffected by the crowd, weather and the noise. We sincerely apologize if anyone was offended by this display."

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Jadakiss, Juvenile, Lil Wayne and others have landed their voices to upstart 777 Entertainment's upcoming animated series, "The Roaches."

The half hour series follows the Roach family who gets evicted from their Beverly Hills home and consequently moves to a Chicago housing project. The lead character, Ghetto (pronounced Jet-O) Roach, is a snobby bug forced to adapt to a new lifestyle in the tough Chicago neighborhood. In addition to the aforementioned artists, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Mannie Fresh and Ying Yang Twins are featured in the project.

The series is presently being shopped to several major and cable networks and the creators are reportedly close to a deal. "The Roaches" is the brainchild of 777 Entertainment's Marcello Robinson and Deborah Young.

"It is our goal to take animation television in a new direction across multicultural boundaries that give a realistic view of everyday life while entertaining the masses," co-creator and 777 Entertainment partner Marcello Robinson said in a statement.

777 Entertainment partner Onie Rivers added, "The Hip-Hop industry has really embraced this show and is in full support. My Blackberry is blowing up."

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An arrest warrant for Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony was reportedly issued Wednesday (Feb. 24) after the rapper failed to appear at a scheduled plea hearing in Butler County, Ohio.

Krayzie Bone, born Anthony Henderson, has been battling charges of child support non-payment in Ohio for the last three years.

During a scheduled plea hearing in Butler County Common Pleas Court, Henderson, 31, would have received probation providing that he maintained steady child support payments for his 6-year-old son, according to Ohio's Journal News.

Henderson's nonattendance, however, carries a punishment of up to 18 months in prison. Assistant Prosecutor Aaron Aldridge requested a warrant for the rapper's arrest.

Henderson was indicted last August on two counts of the fifth-degree felony, nonsupport of dependents, which carries a 12-month prison sentence. At the time, prosecutors issued a warrant for Henderson's arrest for failing to appear in court to face the charges.

The rapper reportedly placed $40,000 in an escrow account for the mother of his son. The money was released to the mother after paternity tests verified that Henderson was the father of the child. Henderson had disputed paternity.

After the Butler County Child Support Enforcement Agency passed the rapper's case on to the prosecutor's office in 2002, Henderson paid a lump sum of $35,000, and the case was dropped before it was presented before a grand jury.

Henderson's failure to continue payments between 2002 and 2004 reportedly led to the August 2004 indictment.

Krayzie Bone's third solo album titled Gemini: Good vs. Evil was released earlier this month.

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G Unit rapper The Game will launch his original Capture the Flag 59FIFTY cap design today (Feb. 24) for New Era Cap Company, Inc., the headwear designers announced.

New Era touts Game's simplistic design as an opposition to the Compton rapper's rough, complex personality. The red and black-colored cap features a red wool visor, red satin lining, and a black wool base and black faux suede under-visor.

The front embroidery of the cap calls attention to a raised "B" and the words, "The Black Wall Street; Live for Everything, Die for Nothing." The rear embroidery bears Game's Black Wall Street logo, and a hidden internal pocket reads "The Game" in black.

"I remember back in the early 90s when wearing fitteds started getting popular, so all these years later to design my own with New Era is crazy," said The Game in a statement.

"My New Era fitted represents a movement, one that was killed out in the 1920s – The Black Wall Street – but I am at the forefront of it in 2005, a movement not only in hip-hop and not only in my community, but all over – its my turn."

New Era will sell The Game 59FIFTY fitteds at www.neweracap.com starting today (Feb. 24), with a portion of the proceeds going to The United Negro College Fund.

The Game design is also exclusively available at Genesis and Classic Kicks in New York, Huf in San Francisco, Undefeated in Los Angeles, Urban Corner in Lynwood, CA, Dipt/Urban Hook Ups and Live Stock in Vancouver, and in Tokyo, Japan.

New Era will launch its next Capture the Flag limited edition 59FIFTY cap on April 28, designed by Sacramento Kings basketball star Chris Webber.

Previous Capture the Flag celebrity designers include Fabolous, Fat Joe, and MTV VJ La La.

New Era's Capture the Flag series is designed by guest celebrities and launches on the last Thursday of designated months throughout the year. A portion of the proceeds for each design benefits a charity of the celebrity designer's choice.

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Despite being in jail for the past three years on a second-degree murder charge, rapper C-Murder managed to record a new album, The Truest Sh-- I Ever Said, and, more improbably, a video for the album's first single, "Y'all Heard of Me."

It is the latter that has angered Sheriff Harry Lee of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, according to The Associated Press. Murder (a.k.a. Corey Miller), whose album is slated for release on March 22, appears in the video in his orange prison jumpsuit. Lee said he was unaware the footage was filmed and that he felt as if he'd been tricked into letting film crews in.

"Suffice it to say, I'm not pleased," Lee told the AP. "The only thing I'll say is, he will not make another video while he's in my jail."

Miller's lawyer, Ron Rakosky, said the footage was recorded by a pair of film crews, one from Court TV and the other from a local cable-access program, both of which received approval from the sheriff's office to interview the rapper. "The bottom line is, we didn't do anything wrong," Rakosky said.

Miller was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of 16-year-old Steve Thomas at the Platinum Club in Harvey, Louisiana, on January 12, 2002. He was found guilty in 2003, but the conviction was overturned last April, and he is currently awaiting a new trial.

In the meantime, he recorded the album and the video, which reportedly intersperses images of him in jail rhyming about how blacks endure racial profiling with footage of B.G. performing in the middle of a big crowd at the New Orleans housing project where Miller and his brothers, No Limit Records honcho Master P and Silkk the Shocker, grew up.

While a victim's advocate told the AP that she thought it was inappropriate that Miller should be making money off album sales while he's a suspect in a murder case, Rakosky said he encouraged the rapper to stay busy while he awaits trial.

"Here's a guy in jail, making constructive use of his time instead of withering away," Rakosky said. "He's lost more than three years of his life, locked up for a crime he did not commit. At least he's not just sitting there, wasting away."

This isn't the first time Miller has run afoul of officials while in jail. In 2002, prosecutors accused Miller of trying to tamper with witnesses in the case by having a cell phone smuggled into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in an alleged attempt to elicit friends to dissuade witnesses from testifying against him