There is an interesting dichotomy on this week's Billboard Top 200 Album Chart (9/21/05).
The number one album is by a Houston rapper -- Paul Wall -- and it sold 176,000 copies in the U.S. It's titled "The People's Champ."
Another guy named Paul -- Paul McCartney -- placed number 6 this week with his new CD "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," which sold 92,000.
An alumus of the Beatles and Wings, once upon a time McCartney's album would have been titled "The People's Champ." In 1964, everyone wanted to hold his hand. Now that Sir Paul is 64, it seems music buyers would rather be "slap flippin'," "riding dirty," "big ballin'," and "sittin' sidewayz" with the rhyming rapper Paul Wall.
On his next CD the former Mop Top may have to collaborate with Busta Rhymes, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Snoop, Ludacris, Bow Wow, and the Ying Yang Twins if he hopes to regain his crown.
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