Kevin Gates is now among modern heavyweights Drake, Fetty Wap, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole as his debut album, Islah is certified platinum.
The Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper shared the news that the LP, which is named after his daughter, passed one million sales with his latest video, “Time For That.”
The “2 Phones” emcee also had success this year with his Murder for Hire 2 mixtape. Both that and Islah saw significant time on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart.
Drake’s Thank Me Later, Fetty Wap’s Fetty Wap, Lamar’s good kid m.A.A.d. City and Cole’s Cole World: The Sideline Story — all debut albums — have passed the one million sales mark or more.
how this garbage ass rapper sells a million copies of trash is beyond me, times have changed hiphop is dead.
Not that hard to do if you buying your own albums. There is no way a million people listen to this clown let alone spending money with him
You’re Ann asshole. I bet you don’t have $2. DICK…..
I bet your mama garbage in bed 2….lol
Let’s get Matlock on the case to solve this fraudulent claim? how is this possible? I want a complete report on my desk by tomorrow
This is very hard to believe that has happened. I must be really outta of the loop, his music is alright. I guess this the new climate of this new wave of music.
I need receipts lol
Lol I honestly didn’t know he had an album out. Thought he was releasing songs to build up to the album ?
Since when is April fool in September??
but how many people actually bought the album? this is why i don’t like this whole streaming bs. i’m not hating on kevin for going platinum, but to me, it ain’t official until a million people buy it instead of just listening to it.
Never even knew this dude had an album yet…and not that I know, I’m still not looking for it.
So false never sold million copies next story he can’t even dream of going plat plat
Riaa certifications are trash now that they switched to this new model
Kevin Gates is trash keep fucking you’re cousin bro
Big up Kevin Gates!!! and Sallam Alikum!!
so much haters on here lol go eat a dick, Kevin better than Boosie right now, Boosie need to step up .
Shit its ‘easy to go platinum they count streaming now.
Its to easy to go platinum now days its really sad
if you count streaming…yeah…but buying the actual album and platinum? ill bet he didnt hit gold.
album is solid though
No hiphopdx, this is a loss. This lesbian lookin nigga…
I never heard one song from this dude. He’s one of these virtual reality rappers like Isaiah Rashad, Young Dolph, Travis Scott, and a bunch of other rappers who are reportedly taking the world by storm, yet I’ve never one song from them or met one person who knows who they are.
How Sway?
Everyone should quit whining. It makes sense to count streams as sales. Since the illegal download age not even the really good artists can sell. It’s like adjusting numbers for inflation. (Ex. Williams in 1941 made an estimated 61 million dollars, which is equivalent to 7.3 billion dollars in 2016 *not a real adjustment*) This way you can compare their numbers to artists in other generations easily. Lil Wayne rose to the top at the wrong time. I feel Carter 3 would’ve sold 8 million if it were 5 years earlier or in the stream-counting age.
Pahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
He’s one of the hottest rappers out and he keeps it 100 and to make it clear it was a distant cousin he didn’t know until afterwards so get the real info before you speak dumb ass
LMFAO seriously tho even if it was his first cousin ain’t none my fuckn business, perfect imperfection still one of the best songs I’ve heard in a long time.
Just a bunch of hating ass niggas… broke asses get ya money up
Congrats…. I know he kind of an asshole but he keeps it 100. Doesn’t pretend to be something he’s not
Being and asshole doesn’t mean your “keeping it real.” That can also be an act
Inpedendant too…thats at least $6 an album too so thats $6,000,000
I’m guessing he sold around 200,000 units, the rest were probably streams. Dude is way more popular than rappers who get much more press, guess just more of his fans value his music enough to pay for it.
I didn’t buy it, about to pirate it LOL. But niggas respect his hustle, them verses be straight hood life with a hook, plus he make gangster love songs and we know women love a hard man in touch with his self. From an analytical stance his success as an artist was imminent.
Wow people be really hating for no reason none y’all know this man never met him he never done nthg to u but y’all on here disrespecting him. Not even his music, just him, that’s wild, muh fuckas b hating for the hell of it.
Dude is lyrical AF, his expression of his life and life in general is finely put together just like art should be. Most of the problem is y’all probably can’t relate to his songs. “454 get two of them u got a thousand 8.” Meaningless line to u, but I used to gun n hope for a brick so it mean smthg to me.
Idk I guess my point is there’s no reason to hate. Ive seen enough ppl out of our lifestyle end up in boxes, cement n pine ones. I’m happy Everytime I c a hood nigga reach success. I don’t like the Migos too much, but I’m glad those young black men ain’t really in a bando wit 3 sticks. R u mad that they made it cuz u didn’t? Shot out to Gates man fuck the haters, “U supposed to shine.”