Eve pleads no contest

According to TMZ.com, Eve’s lawyer Blair Berk pleaded no contest to the charges on behalf of Eve in Los Angeles County Superior Court today (June 28).

Eve, born Eve Jeffers, had a .08 blood alcohol level when she crashed her gold Maserati, following a night of partying.

The actress/rapper, who is gearing up to release her latest album Here I Am, has been ordered to wear a SCRAM alcohol monitoring device around her ankle for 45 days.

She must enroll in an alcohol education program, serve 36 months of informal probation and pay pay $1400 in fines and penalties.

Weak sales from new artists, Huey, Shop Boyz

Atlanta’s Shop Boyz have the highest selling hip-hop debut on the Billboard charts this week with their album Rockstar Mentality. Powered by their smash single “Party Like a Rockstar,” the trio moved 52,000 copies of the disc, but failed to make it into the Billboard Top 10, instead landing at No. 11. Elsewhere on the charts, St. Louis native, Huey, grabbing the No. 26 spot on Billboard’s Top 200 with his debut LP, Notebook Paper. Although the album’s single, “Pop, Lock & Drop It,” has enjoyed heavy radio spins, its popularity only translated into sales of about 28,000 units. Meanwhile, in his second week in stores, Fabolous managed to move just under 59,000 copies of From Nothin’ to Somethin’ to keep him in the Top 10. Last week Fab debuted at No. 2, but this week he dropped several spots to No. 9.