Eminem's "Marshall Mathers LP" Reaches Diamond Status, Confirmed By RIAA

Dumb racist !!!

MMLPs been diamond for a long time dumbass this is just in the U.S..... wat u doin here dont u have more cultural icons to kill off?

nothin besides illmatic and ready to die ever will match it

Nah....Subject matter is subjective, fool. Depends on what u like or want.

@L Knight-First of all using Yelawolf as a source to back up your statement will not help you. Second, yes it was originally a black art form but any art form that becomes popular with the masses will become owned by the world. There are rappers of every race at this point. While we started it, it is now being perfected by people of every race. That's why I love hip hop. Black folks aren't mad about that, we're proud of it.

Wth lol he has mastered the craft of rapping for even for some of the reasons you just mentioned. And rapping is a black expressional art form in the sense that it was created by black artist like reggae etc. Yelawolf said the same thing.

It's amazing how just the mention of Eminem can bring morons of all colors. That is the dumbest shit I ever heard. " The black art",lmao

dude shut the fuck up you sound ignorant. 'hes mastered the craft of a black art' no he hasnt you fucktard he just appeals to a larger fanbase then most niggas, he has shock value and the most important thing is theres no one else like him! mastering a craft? no he just took the world by storm by being different and being on aftermath...

@Nana- Your right, I did overlook the statement about him actually being able to rap. That's my bad. The part about respect was not aimed at you but at all the hate he gets from people who want to simplify why he sells. As far as Pac is concerned, He hasn't been certified diamond for All Eyez on Me yet. I think this is a direct effect of downloading though. I hear that CD all the time being played by kids who were barely alive when it was out. Diamond or not, It's a real hip hop classic.

Yo no one know about the 2Pac thing?

@chitown. Not sure if the respect bit was aimed at me or whether you misunderstood me or whatever but I acknowledged his skill. I said he sells because he's the whiteboy that CAN ACTUALLY rap. look above g. And I hear you, novelty wears out but first impressions dont really.

@Nana-Your completely right, being a good white rapper is a novelty. The thing is that novelty wears out and skills provide longevity. Why hate on the man if he happened to have skills to go with the novelty? Give him his respect for capitalizing on what he has. He respects hip hop to the fullest and has constantly shown that. All that shit about his color is just sour bullshit. Wayne sold 3 mill in a time when it's hard to go gold and I respect that even though I only like some of his stuff. Just because I'm not eating up everything Wayne makes doesn't mean I can't respect his skill. It's getting old seeing some moron say he only sells because he's white. If more rappers would rap about some shit beside the money they don't have and the strippers their fucking then they might sell 3 mill too.

PS. Why haven't All Eyez On Me or Tupac's Greatest been certified Diamond. If All Eyez was 9X Platinum by '98 then it must be Diamond by now.

I kind of get what he's saying though. 'The White Boy That Can Actually Rap' was and still is his gimmick/ image. The whiteboy rapper always has a certain charm, certain controversy whatever you wanna call it but it undoubtedly contributed to his hype, sales and what he is today - there's no denying that.

if you knew anything about hip-hop, you would knew that WHITE hip-hop fans mostly hate eminem because he's white, they wanna be black... eminem sells because he has skill, because he's entertaining, and the most important, because he makes good music... (canibus has one of those three things, that's why he don't sell)

yea that comment is completely ignorant and irrelevant...you think that 10 million white people bought that album...shit theres a million white kids out there tryin to rap who suck nobody buyin their shit because they white thats like me sayin MJ was the best baller of all time cause he black which would be absolute bullshit eminem went diamond because he can weave words together like no one else on earth...and whether i like him or not i respect that

Who really gives a fuck why he sells or who buys them. The last I checked the only color money has is green. And like I said below, M.C. Hammer actually still has the highest selling rap album of all time and he sure wasn't white. So get the fuck outta here with that weak bullshit.