This week, two independent Hip Hop imprints found projects in the Top 10 as Tech N9ne Collabos‘ Strangeulation and Atmosphere’s Southsiders made their way onto the Billboard Top 200 Albums charts. Meanwhile, Pharrell’s G I R L remains in the Top 6 with continued success in its tenth week of availability.
Tech N9ne Collabos’ Strangeulation Debuts At #5
Tech N9ne’s Collabos’ Strangeulation is the #1 Rap album of the week. The project, which lands at #5 overall, sold 35,772 copies this week. Recently, Tech spoke with HipHopDX about the potential success of the project. “The blessing is I’m still doing music, and people still want to hear it,” he said. “This is the most that I’ve sold preorders on any release that I’ve ever had, and this is a Collabos disk, not a solo. Even my solos haven’t sold this many [preorders]. I think I signed 10,000 preorders. I told myself I would never do 7,000 again, and I did 7,200 before I left Kansas City. Then they sent two more boxes out, followed by another box the other day. We sold out of all of them.”
Pharrell’s G I R L Remains In Top 6
Pharrell’s G I R L continues its success on the chart. This week, the project’s 10th week of availability, G I R L has landed in the #6 position. It sold 24,449 copies this week, a 13 percent increase in sales from last week’s 21,645 units sold. Overall, G I R L has moved 371,577 copies. The project earned a 3.5 out of 5 in its HipHopDX review. “While G I R L is too surface-level at times, it hits the target it’s aimed for,” the publication says of the effort. “Pharrell wants summertime airplay, and any of these songs could survive on the radio. It’s also a nice tribute to feminine vigor, adding another notch to Pharrell’s ever-growing list of achievements. He has plenty to be happy about these days.”
Atmosphere’s Southsiders Lands At #8
Atmosphere’s Southsiders debuts on the chart this week at #8. The most recent Atmosphere project, Southsiders sold 23,159 copies in its first week. Recently, Atmosphere’s Slug spoke with HipHopDX about the effort. “This is the record where I’m like, ‘Well, what am I supposed to make a record about now?’” the Rhymesayers Entertainment emcee said in the interview. “I already am in my 40s. What am I supposed to rap about now? Like ‘Oh, maybe you should rap about the things you’re thinking about.’ Nowadays, I don’t have to worry as much about the phone bill, so I have time to start thinking about things like the ocean. I have time to start thinking about things like gentrification…There are a lot of things I hit on this record. It’s just the stuff I’m thinking about.”
Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 05/11/2014
#5. Tech N9ne Collabos – Strangeulation – 36,000 (36,000)
#6. Pharrell Williams – G I R L – 24,000 (372,000)
#8. Atmosphere – Southsiders – 23,000 (23,000)
#15. Iggy Azalea – The New Classic – 15,000 (90,000)
#21. John Legend – Love In The Future – 13,000 (489,000)
#23. Future – Honest – 11,000 (85,000)
#30. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – 9,800 (2,099,000)
#33. Beyonce – Beyonce – 9,000 (1,968,000)
#35. August Alsina – Testimony – 8,800 (108,000)
#37. Jason Derulo – Talk Dirty – 8,000 (73,000)
* Data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousand for units above 10,000, nearest hundred for units below 10,000.
RELATED: Last Week’s Sales Report
Wheres Masterflop? Titty man fell off the charts already?
I don’t see Jay-Z, Pusha T, Common, Dream, Papoose, Kendrick or Schoolgirl Q anywhere near the charts. Another epic loss for all of the YMCMB haters.
i dont see lil wayne, drake, tyga or nicki minaj anywhere on here
Willie Roberts or Aubrey ain’t on the charts, while Marshall’s killin the charts
Aftermath’s still on the charts while MMG or YMCMB’s missing lol
how much did that young money fall of an empire compilation sell? 50k total?
Eminem classified his album as pop, so his sales don’t count towards this.
And where is YMCMB? Another epic loss for dentaldambitch
pussycondomboy’s mad because the ymcmb fad is pretty much dead
YMCMB released a commercial mixtape and it’s sold 75k to date. That’s a commercial mixtape. Our mixtapes outsell most rappers’ commercial albums. YMCMB has the rap game by the clit.
How is it dead when drake went platinum and Wayne went gold?
No, Eminem’s album is classified as hip-hop, so his sales do count. Also, Young Money released an album, not a mixtape, and that shit flopped. Also, YMCMB is pretty much dead.
What’s taking you guys long, I’m ready to read the stans/haters comments for my hump day therapy?
Lets get it on.
Sorry, had to get something to eat first.
August Alsina’s career is over before it even started.
He’ll be okay he sold more than Ace Hood, Tyga, DJ Khaled and the Young Money comps.
Aftermath still on the charts.. Where’s YMCMB/MMG??
Where’s TDE?
I’m sure Q sold a few K, Kendrick too.
Where’s Big Willie Roberts’ gold record?
These numbers are horrible. If you take the R&B out (Bey, Legend and Pharell) you would have basically nothing (save Em). Wow. Future?
Ross is a true boss. It looks like he will outsell the legendary mj. He may move 150k at most according to hitsdailydouble. He may not even be at no.1. Ross is winning again.
a true boss would earn more bread than a 22 year old white independent rapper with no gold albums.
You mean the one who crawled over to ross for his mothers day mixtape?
Ross donates more to charity hence his lower network than wack miller.
titty man will begged mac miller to be on his mixtape
A true boss makes sure his team is eating, FiF won’t even answer my calls.
I’m 35 and still hoping to get a release date for my first album one of these days after carrying Rozay’s french fries for 10 years.
I’m not even a rapper, just a hypeman and my first album sold more than everyone signed to MMG.
Me and Yay just got back from Guyana getting that show money. 50 put us in the position to eat unlike a lot of these weed carriers who are closing in on 40 years old with no albums out.
dentalbitch, none of what you say is true. Ross won’t outsell MJ, who’ll sell more than what Ross did, who never won anything. Also, no one crawled to Ross at all and he only donates to himself.
Check me Dre & Em on the cover of XXL, we just made a deal with Apple for a Billion, I plan on giving Em 50 million in bonuses and a Mercedes for Hailey.
no 60 year old white jewish devil should ever be on the cover of xxl
What about Mastermind?
kendrick is off the charts ha ha !!!
so is rick fraud lmaoooo
GKMC came out in October 2012 and has only been off the charts for a month or 2! Ricky couldn’t even last 3 months.
“Willie Roberts or Aubrey ain’t on the charts”
Neither is Kenwack.
Aftermath still charting though, but tell me.. Where is Mixtape Music Group? lmaaaaaaaoooooo
Kendrick ran these fucking charts for over a year and a half… Not too many albums from 2012 still on the charts but Ross came out 2 months ago.
As an Accountant for YMCMB I can confirm that YMCMB is going to be running this summer, we got ace hood, dj khaled, Tyga, Drake Nicki Wayne Birdman all dropping albums this year. YMCMB stay on top ! each of our artists albums never fail to go double platinum at least.
Ace Hood and DJ Khaled should sell about 80k total combined…
YOU must be on lean,if you think that’s true
Now I understand why Lil Wayne taxes were fucked up. It was this nigga here!! ROTFL!! Too busy commenting on DX instead of working a damn ledger.
#37 BRUNO MARSUNORTHODOX JUKEBOX7,490
#40 YGMY KRAZY LIFE6,840
#43. RICK ROSS#Mastermind – 6,276
Source: Dailyhits Double, check dailyhits double out for real numbers. HHDX get their numbers from thin air, Dailyhit get their numbers directly from billboard since they subscribe to them.
it’s HITSDAILYDOUBLE FUCKTARD, AT LEAST QUOTE YOUR SOURCE CORRECTLY
We stopped the list at 37 to taunt the 50 troll
they stopped the list at 37 because they only ever list 10 albums moron. Ross isnt imprtant enough to be on the list.
The HDD list goes up to 50, the list is supposed to be HipHop album sales but they have Beyonce, Derulo, and Bruno, lol, other sites will get it right so that YG is on there.
they’ve always included r&b on these lists. they left off the fat slob because he only has 1 fan on this website and he has long fingernails and a hooptie
LOL @ Tech N9ne being on the top 5
great to see an independent nigga selling more first week than DJ Khaled who had the entire rap industry on his album.
GETTING THAT INDEPENDENT MONEY IS HILARIOUS TO YOU? TEC IS LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!!!
Tech seems to be selling pretty well, much more than I ever expected.
LOL HitsDailyDouble has YG and Rick Ross on the charts at #41 and #43 but we stopped our list at #37 to taunt that 50 Cent troll. Aint it cool?
bruthadee is so sad and lonely
OMG THAT BOY SOLD 6200 HE GOING PLAT FOR SURE
If anyone is being taunted its that one middle aged rick ross cheerleader who writes essays on here every week defending williams flop.
Looks likw He/She doesent like being called a troll based on the serious reaction. LOL
Looks like bruthadee got his feelings hurt when they called him a lonely sad middle aged groupie who listens to cops
@”Anonymous:
Looks likw He/She doesent like being called a troll based on the serious reaction. LOL”
It knows what it is and responds accordingly.
bruthadee responds to sad/lonely an or middle aged groupie guy/cheerleader
MC Gusto fell off so soon? I guess people ain’t really feeling that fraud rap in 2014… Shout outs to J Cole for selling twice as much as Rick Ross without a Jay-Z, Kanye West or Lil Wayne feature.
We left Titty Man off this list because all of these R&B and pop albums sold so much more than him.
I wonder if Ross is gonna put Lemon Pepper on this flop?
LEMON PEPPER IS A WAY OF LIFE #wingstop
#37 BRUNO MARS UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX – 7,490
#40 YG MY KRAZY LIFE – 6,840
#43. RICK ROSS #Mastermind – 6,276
Dat Boy YG just generated $68,000 for his label, they made a good investment in the Young Gangsta.
68k is pennies for a major label like Def Jam.
HAHAHA BRUNO MARS SOLD MORE THAN OFFICER TRICKY RICKY
No, YG is at 145,000 so he made them about 1.5 million in sales plus My Nigga sold over a million so he def recouped his budget and will get a sophomore release, hopefully with better promotion.
Keep dreaming, kid.
” hopefully with better promotion.”
hopefully with better production too
And better lyrics.
to be honest that album sucked, cant believe he sold 150k
Is “Happy” the best track out right now? Damn. Tech N9Ne works harder than any rapper out there. But…there aint shit out right now. Summer is around the corner and there’s not ONE BANGIN TRACK out.
Where is Actual Ambition?
ALBUMS DONT USUALLY CHART BEFORE THEY ARE RELEASED SMART GUY
Flop Ambition will do less than French Montana.
Nah, Animal Ambition will sell more than Flop Montana.
AA WILL OUTSELL FRENCH EVEN THOUGH HES RELEASED ALL THE SONGS MONTHS BEFORE
Flop Ambition has zero buzz and the music sounds like his fans look.
fit and sexy?
And none of that is true.
Masterflop sounds like Williams fans look. Overweight and sloppy with police uniforms on.
Rick Ross fans smell like poop and body odour.
FLOP MONTANA HAD THE BIGGEST FLOP OF THE YEAR AFTER TALKING ALL THAT SHIT ABOUT 50. I CANT WAIT UNTIL THAT NIGGA CATCHES A FADE.
he will sell more than french montana independently first week and total its pretty much guaranteed
In the hearts of every kid that looks like Shia Lebeuf and Mcauly Culkin.
learn to spell their names creep
YG ABOUT TO PASS FRENCH MONTANAS TOTAL FOR A WHOLE YEAR OF SALES
We don’t support police ass niggas in ATL.
#Masterflop
WELL WELL SHADY RUNNIN THE INDUSTRY AS USUAL IT’S NOT EVEN A CONTEST WHETHER IT’S RECORD SALES OR LYRICISM HE IS AT THE TOP! IF YOU DOUBT GO LISTEN TO THAT MMLP2 HIS WORD PLAY AND SNEAK DISSES ON THIS RAP WORLD PRICELESS! OFFICER RICKY HAHA THIS FAKE FAKE DOPE MAN IS WEAK HE TALK THE TALK AND HE FLOPPED AGAIN . YES HE HAS SOME NUMBER 1 ALBUMS, BUT HONESTLY HAS HE GONE TOE TO TOE WITH ANYONE AND I AM NOT JUST SPEAKING ON EM CUZ THE WHITEBOY IS SO FAR AHEAD OF THE FAT C.O. WELL ITS SHADY/AFTERMATH RUNNING THE GAME AS USUAL!!!! MMLP2 2MILLI AND COUNTING AND THAT IS NOT EVEN WITH TOURING CUZ EM DON’T NEED TO EVEN TOUR A SHOW HERE AND THERE PEOPLE.
Where is Jay-Z’ albums? This nigga fell off musically after Lil Wayne dissed his bitch ass. Lol, even a girl kicked Joe Camel’s ass. What a pussy he is! Those fake Samsung sales are gone! swag
When Filthy Scent drops Animal Kracker Ambition we can make ourselves feel better by saying Indue artists sell less and that Filthy Scent has a lot of money.
#animalkrackerambition
where is Titty Man? Suge said he was going to knock William out and play with his titties and he did nothing!
Fifty hates being ignored, he spends a crazy amount of time trying to get attention from people who simply ignore him and act like he doesent exist…I hope this behavior doesent rub off on his fans.
bruthadee hates being ignored he spends a crazy amount of time leaving comments defending rick ross hoping to be offered a job a wingstop.
Anything to feel better about Masterflop right? It’s like a fat bitch talking about a fatter bitch to feel thin.
Maybe 50 should start dropping names like Game and then get butthurt when they dont respond like JayZ.
Who are you kidding, Game would respond… he making Lil Durk diss songs and talking shit on twitter callin him Lil Jurk.
Where is Jay-Z’ albums? This nigga fell off musically after Lil Wayne dissed his bitch ass. Lol, even a girl kicked Joe Camel’s ass. What a pussy he is! Those fake Samsung sales are gone! swag
Magna Carter is the 3rd best selling album of the last two years, he has over 10 platinum albums over 20 years so a decline is inevitable.
Please. Wayne been fell off since C3.
niggas like Ross cant even go plat once in 10 years.
Wayne fell off because he been doing the shit for forever and got burnt out.
You mean to tell me a former law enforcement official pretending to be a drug boss can’ even move 500k in 2014? J Cole sold more than Ross has in 2 weeks.
#40 YG MY KRAZY LIFE – 6,840
#43. RICK ROSS #Mastermind – 6,276
Trade these two albums for John Legend and Beyonce.
Legend and Beyonce make hits and move units thats why they’re on the list.
They add R&B albums because sometimes there are not 10 HipHop albums in the top 50 albums.
bitch tits not doing so good. at least he has wingstop to help him earn as much bread as mac miller did again this year.
Best Sellers:
EMINEM – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 : 2,099,000
DRAKE – Nothing Was The Same : 1,540,000
JAY-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail : 1,144,000
J. COLE – Born Sinner : 683,000
KANYE WEST – Yeezus : 656,000
LIL’ WAYNE – I Am Not A Human Being II : 605,000
A$AP ROCKY – Long. Live. A$AP : 468,000
WALE – The Gifted : 357,000
RICK ROSS – Mastermind : 335,000
KID CUDI – Indicud : 271,000
Schoolboy is off the Top 50 but he should be at 250,000 by now, Interscope is a factor.
Damn my niggah Cole crushed Rozay when it comes to album sales. And he did it all without a Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne or Diddy feature. Salute to a young boss keeping it real in the game and being a positive influence for the youth.
Schoolboy did his numbers but I still think Contradictions was a better album.
LOL @ WALE SELLING MORE THAN TITTY MAN
WHERE FRENCH MONTOYA? MMG/BADBOY/INTERSCOPE LOST WITH THAT BUM
French Montana is at 160,000 so his rank for 2013-2014 is at #19 so there were 18 HipHop albums that sold more than Ecuse My French. His single POP That went platinum too.
That’s still horrible for French.
3 of those artists are mixed race (Cudi, Drake, J Cole) and 1 of them is white. This is the Tanning of America.
get the fuck out of here with that BS you racist kook.
brotherdork loves his racist conspiracy theories. he will say anything to try and justify rick ross failures in life.
MMLP2 = Skylar Grey
Drake = Rachel Craig
JayZ = Justin Timberlake
J Cole = Amber Coffman
Kanye West = Justin Vernon
LiL Wayne = Shane Heyl
A$AP Rocky = Florence Welch
Wale = N/A
Rick Ross = N/A
Kid Cudi = Haim
Looking at the credits on an album you are going to buy is like looking at the ingredients on an item of food you are going to buy. Taste in music and taste in food varies according to the individual.
Nobody cares about your bullshit racist conspiracies, Bruthadee.
Nobody looks at the credits of an album, they just listen to to the music and shut up.
The white loner takes offense to mentions of Steve Stouts Tanning of America, I believe Steve is on their enemy list for some odd reason.
What whit loner? Nobody even mentioned that Steve Stout documentary.
Rappers have to include those types of singers on their album so that the music appeals to their fans or brings them new fans. For Max sales its I portent not to alienate certain demographics.
The one guy pointed out the ethnicities of the best selling rap guys in that top ten list and said it was like what Steve Stout was saying in his Doc called the Tanning of America and then the other guy called him a brutha and said the Doc was a racist conspiracy. Lame.
How does putting unknown singers help appeal to people? And the Anonymous above me is obviously OP in disguise, talking in third person.
Dumb fag wants to know how putting singers/rappes on your songs can appeal to listeners, next thing dumb fag wants to know is why people put ketchup, mayonnaise, pickles, onions and other
Ingredients on a hamburger to appeal to their taste buds.
“LiL Wayne = Shane Heyl ”
DO you know who Shane Heyl is? No one bought a Lil Wayne album because he had a former junkie skater guy screaming on 1 song.
You can’t compare music to food, they’re not alike at all. If anyone’s the dumb fag, it’s you.
“MMLP2 = Skylar Grey
Drake = Rachel Craig
JayZ = Justin Timberlake
J Cole = Amber Coffman
Kanye West = Justin Vernon
LiL Wayne = Shane Heyl
A$AP Rocky = Florence Welch
Wale = N/A
Rick Ross = N/A
Kid Cudi = Haim”
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA Look how he put N/A beside Ross and Wale THIS GUY IS SUCH A PATHETIC GROUPIE
“Wale = N/A”
Jerry Seinfeld?
the obese black nerd likes to pretend that wale didnt make songs with lady gaga and that rick ross put robin thicke on one of his flop albums
I hate white people so I’m going to spend my precious time going through the album credits to find all the white people that worked on these albums. Most of these people are indie artists or completely unknown but I still think it helped these artists sell more than Rick Ross and Wale in my delusional mind.
2012 was the same:
Macklemore = Mary Lambert – platinum
Kendrick Lamar = Anna Wise – platinum
Nicki Minaj = N/A – platinum
2-Chainz = Mike Posner – Gold
Rick Ross = N/A – Gold
T.I = Pink – Gold
Appeal to their ears.
steve stoute……really?
To whose ears, indie bums who don’t buy music? I’m pretty sure everyone that bought those albums don’t care about a bunch of unknown indie artists?
nigga is a bum hater, he really trying to say kendrick went platinum because of anna wise who isnt even famous or known.
Macklemore could have had a fat black bitch singing Same Love instead of Mary Lambert and the results would have been the same. Same goes for Kendrick and J Cole… no one knows anna wise or amber coffman like that.
Rick Ross could put a white obscure hipster bitch on every song and his sales would be exactly the same.
Adding white singers to your music is an excellent idea, Wale, Ross and Nicki should have included white sings on their albums to appeal to the music sensibilities of white fans….it also helps to make the whites feel “included”.
“”LiL Wayne = Shane Heyl ”
DO you know who Shane Heyl is? No one bought a Lil Wayne album because he had a former junkie skater guy screaming on 1 song.”
Who said anything about sales? Its all about appealing to the listeners and expanding your fanbase.
It’s a good idea to include white singers to an album, you dont want whites to feel abandoned or not included in your music, why do you think 8 of the top selling albums have white singers on them?
4 out of 6 of the best selling albums from 2012 had white singers. It seems like a winning formula.
“Who said anything about sales? Its all about appealing to the listeners and expanding your fanbase.”
You brought up sales. Putting unknown singers doesn’t help appeal to listeners or expand your fanbase.
“It’s a good idea to include white singers to an album, you dont want whites to feel abandoned or not included in your music, why do you think 8 of the top selling albums have white singers on them?
4 out of 6 of the best selling albums from 2012 had white singers. It seems like a winning formula.”
White singers had nothing to do with those albums’ successes. White people don’t care about whether a white person is on a rap record or not, they just like the music.
It’s important to appeal to white peoples ears, that’s why we include white singers in our music,to appeal to them.
White people buy the overall majority of these albums so it is smart to appeal to their listening sensibilities with their own singers.
If I want my music to appeal to Asian people then I will include Asian singers but Asians don’t buy the majority of these albums so there is no point.
You’re just reaching for strawman arguments. White people already like rap music without the white singers. And who’s “we?” You’re not a music artist and you don’t speak for anyone.
White consumers are easily duped, they want desperately to fit in and be a part of our culture which is why they became so enraged when Lord Jamar called them guests in the house of HipHop.
The best way to trick the white consumers into buying your music is to appeal to them in your music and your videos, JaYZ figured this out a long time ago and has benefited greatly from it, LiL Wayne modified his entire image to appear more appealing to whites and it proved to be a brilliant move.
It’s important to include whites in your music, your videos, and even your label because it makes the white consumers feel like they are a part of your music and your movement.
The Black guy put an N/A next to the rappers that dont have white singers on the best seller albums for this year and last, I am not Black or white but if I was white I would be angry and flustered.
^ this guy is obviously the OP in disguise.
Also, you’re just repeating yourself because none of that shit is true. And the hip-hop culture belongs to every race, not just one. Take that pseudo-pro-black bullshit elsewhere.
Duh, ask any Movie or TV casting director about “diversity”, you always include a token minority in your cast and if you are a rapper it would be smart to include a token white in your project.
You can’t compare rap to television. Two different mediums. Your argument is full of gigantic holes.
Whites are easy to dupe due to their rabid lust to feel like they are a part of HipHop culture, we can exploit their sensibilities by catering to their ears and giving them sounds that find appealing. This is why the smart rappers do duets with Justin Timberlake instead of doing duets with Jaheim.
Funny because whites are already part of hip-hop culture and aren’t being duped. You’re talking about the pop audience instead. And quit the “we” talk because you’re not part of this.
Whites might be confused about why we put Pink on a T.I. album or Fregie on a 2-Chainz album because they dont have a clue, smart people recognize it for exactly what it is.
Who’s “we?” You’re not part of those records. Those guys put those pop artists on their albums for more sales.
just another lonely night at home drinking and eating takeout food arguing with white guys online…. thats the sad life and times of Bruthadee aka graftedgenes aka H-Rap 180 the biggest racist troll groupie fag hip-hop has ever seen
#37 BRUNO MARSUNORTHODOX JUKEBOX7,490
#40 YGMY KRAZY LIFE6,840
#43. RICK ROSS#Mastermind – 6,276
Source: Dailyhits Double, check dailyhits double out for real numbers. HHDX get their numbers from thin air, Dailyhit get their numbers directly from billboard since they subscribe to them..
you should post this a few more times i only saw 5 other comments with the same numbers
“HHDX get their numbers from thin air,”
so HHDX gets their numbers from thin air because they left off a few low selling rap albums? LOL OOOOHHH KAYY…
and its HITS Daily Double retard not DailyHits Double LMFAO
why does this geek keep including bruno mars?
Anyone seen my long lost MMG chain? Ricky says I can’t get a release date for my album until I get it back and stop bringing shame to the Mixtape Music Group.
Album sales have really falling off. Be sure to checkout thegrandreport(dot)com, they have some cool hip hop and viral videos in there!
If anyone wants the link for Mastermind with no Rick Ross lemme know. It’s not too bad once you take Ross, Meek and Lil Wayne off the album.
You YMCMB MMG fans are like bitches, why you gotta make excuses for grown men who ain’t thinking about you? Ya’ll act like saying something about Jay z, 50 or whoever’s sales is gonna somehow make ya’ll man’s sales better. Your team is falling off, it happens your type will jump on another nigga’s dick and act like you never like these niggas, or maybe even become mature and wonder why you like that garbage to begin with, heck that might be reason they ain’t on charts. But it is you grown crack babies and test tube babies that make those guys look bad.
Sales are sales, Vanilla Ice sold more than Common and Chingy and Soulja Boy are platinum artists while Mos Def and Talib Kweli are not. You are a bitch, YMCMBMMG are rich and succesful artists who are relevant as well as JayZ and they collaborate with each other and enjoy life so get mad.
Hi, dickrider. Nobody cares about your opinion.
” YMCMBMMG are rich and succesful artists ”
over half the rosters aint worth a milli and no one from MMG made the Forbes list last year.
Like I said they won’t be around and they’re already starting to fall off just like Vanilla Ice, soulja boi and Chingy. You like good for now music, I rather have still good years later music, your music ain’t got no longevity and what they eat don’t make you shit, it should just make you dance but you think because they selling that the shit is good? McDonald’s sells but does that mean the shit’s good? Do you pass on veggies because McDonalds is making millions of that poison? Same principle applies here. They making money good for them, is not my money and obviously it ain’t your money either, be mad about that because you’re defending them for free test tube baby.
You attack them for free because you envy their success, so what if they fall off, every artist falls off eventually but your royalties last forever and you will feel the pain of their success forever. We dance to the music and bob our heads to it and enjoy it because we are enjoying life while you are unhappy.
McDonalds is delicious. DJ Khaled even does commercials talking about their cream hitting his face.
Meanwhile, you dickride and defend these people who don’t even know you and don’t care about you. Their music is trash, period. And don’t speak for anyone but yourself.
While the gay guy attacks these people who don’t even know or care about him while he uses dick slang words with male strangers online.
Same can be said about you.
calling someone gay guy is attacking them as well. they must have been speaking some truth and their words must have hurt you.
lOl that gay comment might get some backlash on this site. lol.
You attack them for free because you envy their success.
Wtf? I don’t have a problem with them or their sucess, I haven’t said anything about their success, but you have the reading comprehension of their target audience so I understand why you would come to that conclusion.
They making money off your dumb ass with low quality material, they’re the smart ones and ya’ll dumb as hell, don’t know how else to put it.
no styles p? mannnn phantom and the ghost was a BANGER..cant belive people doing dblock like this in 2014
the streets dont download music off itunes and there were barely any physical copies
i love when nerds think they can speak for the streets as a whole…
i downloaded that shit straight off piratebay my nigga
So if French Montana is in the top 20 best sellers for the last two years does that mean Curtis make make the top 40?
If French is Top 20 Curtis will be top 10 after a full year./
top 20 best sellers for the last 2 years?
not even close
i dont believe it either, YG about to pass up Frenchies 1 year sales total
im 40 and lonely someone talk to me while i eat noodles with my freakishly long finernails. #wingstop
EMINEM – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 : 2,081,000
DRAKE – Nothing Was The Same : 1,540,000
JAY-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail : 1,144,000
J. COLE – Born Sinner : 683,000
KANYE WEST – Yeezus : 656,000
LIL’ WAYNE – I Am Not A Human Being II : 605,000
A$AP ROCKY – Long. Live. A$AP : 468,000
WALE – The Gifted : 357,000
RICK ROSS – Mastermind : 320,000
KID CUDI – Indicud : 271,000
CHILDISH GAMBINO – because the internet : 257,000
2 CHAINZ – B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time : 244,000
MAC MILLER – Watching Movies With The Sound Off : 222,000
JUICY J – Stay Trippy : 211,000
TYLER, THE CREATOR – Wolf : 181,000
TYGA – Hotel California : 175,000
YO GOTTI – I Am : 169,000
PUSHA T – My Name Is My Name : 167,000
FRENCH MONTANA – Excuse My French : 159,000
TECH N9NE – Something Else : 148,000
Didn’t Q sell 236?
Yes Schoolboy sold 236 last count he should be on the list too.
Why does this geek keep pasting this?
Nowhere in my life have I ever seen a list of 2 years of sales together whats he trying to prove?
Why is the guy posting last years sales and not the ones from 2005? And why is HHDX only posting sales from albums released from 2013 and 2014 like MMLP2 and Oxyymoron?
‘great to see an independent nigga selling more first week than DJ Khaled who had the entire rap industry on his album’
Yet Khaled has had platinum singles and has a higher net worth and fanbase than devil nine.
Yes bit akhaled dissed Godfather 50 so we have to hate him.
All thanks to other artists. At least “devil nine” (who’s not a devil worshipper) did it on his own.
Stop the delusional shit it’s getting old. Khaled and Ross get summer superhero movie promotion and end up making the same as local niggas selling out the trunk, that’s an actual fact.
Ross just dropped his 6th studio album still selling more than 99% of his peers and Khaled is about to drop his 8th album selling more than 99% of the DJs out there so you can hate on their success but their accomplishments speak for themselves.
None of that is true at all.
Success doesn’t mean anything if the music is garbage.
Ross is like the Dallas Cowboys a lot of money spent and can’t really win.
Rozay is on the Forbes list every year and he only sells a few records so a better sports analogy would be somebody who makes a lot of money and isn’t required to do a lot of work.
DJ Khaleds sales being compared to an actual rapper is a win, I cant think of another DJ dropping platinum singles whie infuriating the 50 Dickriders.
Khaled is not a DJ, he’s a leech hanging on to other artists for success.
DJ Khaled is the CEO for We The Best Music Group, he is responsible for 7 Gold and Platinum singles as an executive including five Top 40 hits spanning 2006 to 2013. The labels most recent succes was the platinum selling smash “Bugatti” by Ace Hood.
And yet they can’t sell albums with none of them even going gold. All of those songs are trash and had assistance from other people.
Khaled will never go Gold most artists who debuted after 2006 will never go Gold, the last time a DJ went Gold was in 2000 (DJ Clue w/ TP2). Khaled is an important figure within the culture and has produced for Fabolous, Fat Joe, and Pitbull, he is also of Palestinian descent and a devout Muslim.
1. Khaled is not a DJ.
2. He’s NOT an important figure for the culture, he’s a fucking cancer.
3. Khaled doesn’t do any production at all.
No way in hell DJ Khaled has a higher networth than Tech who was on the Forbes list last year… Tech makes more than Rick Ross!!! Not a single MMG nigga made Forbes last year, check the scoreboard, STRANGE IS WINING.
“Rozay is on the Forbes list every year and he only sells a few records so a better sports analogy would be somebody who makes a lot of money and isn’t required to do a lot of work.”
You fucking stupid idiot, check the list Ross didn’t make the list in 2013. He was mentioned but wasn’t listed on the list… he made as much money as Mac Miller and Questlove.
Saw this comment on one of the stories best comment ever!!!
Enjoy.
“Man i feel for Curtis. Seriously tho…homie really trying hard to make a come back…really trying everything within his means to make good music…music that is relevant. The effort is genuine but the fact is people just gave up on him.
Even these idiots who curse you out if u say u dont like 50’s music dont even support 50 cent themselves by buying his music. They only support 50 on HHDX that it. Kendrick fans on the other hand support the kid becos they see how genuine, hungry and talented he is. Count the number of Idiots on HHDX cursing people out…50 singles would debut top 5 if half of em idiots buy his music.
DAMN shame when u got bastards as fans”
Once upon a time 50 had the streets and a large portion of EMs fanbase but he lost the streets and he lost the Em fans and now all he has left are mostly the rejects and misfits who value Pimpin Curly and cartoons more than music.
Nobody believes you.
bruthadee is so sad
yea some streets down ok few towns down.[[ya might move their..streets ok few ok things … but around after hours devils come out put ppls souls on tress dig what im saying.hey u son of mother sicker.heyy mannnnnnnnn]]] son of witch woods put chain saws on you chase you too end of nite…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqk8PZZS20g
All I see is a whole bunch of trolls and loners arguing with each other and they’re going nowhere.
we call it Bruthadee and hes fat and old
Not even much of a tech fan but that nigga got the independent game on lock he makes millions just off the merch alone at his shows that’s the way to do it
:”Who’s “we?” You’re not part of those records. Those guys put those pop artists on their albums for more sales.”
some people dont believe that rappers include pop artists on their albums for more sales, they believe that rappers like A$AP Rocky put Florence Welch on their albums to please HipHop fans.
Nah, they do it for more sales.
Some rappers have no pride in chasing sales and fans, no other reason can explain why Juicy J and Katy Perry are dropping singles together.
Florence Welch is not a pop artist and does nothing to help hip-hop album sales.
“Some rappers have no pride in chasing sales and fans,”
I guess this explains why Ross has so many songs with Lil Wayne and Drake. Not to mention Kanye West, The Weeknd, Jeezy and Jay-Z features on the new album.
“Some rappers have no pride in chasing sales and fans, no other reason can explain why Juicy J and Katy Perry are dropping singles together.”
Ha! A lot of times its the label and not the artist, the radio hits and the crossover hits are where the sales are at so if its me making a record I want Timberlake, Em, Adele and the hot white artists of the moment.
Sellz:
THANKS MAN FOR PUTTING THE BEST TOP SELLING ALBUMS OF 2013-2014 HERE ON HIP HOP DX I WAS WONDERING WERE EVERYBODY FROM LAST YEAR STOOD AS FAR AS SALES GO WISH HIP HOP DX WOULDN’T PICK ALL THE SUPER POPULAR ARTISTS THAT ARE SELLING TODAY AND JUST LEAVE OFF THE NOT AS POPULAR ONES OFF GOOD TO KNOW WERE EVERYBODY STANDS FOR FROM 2013 RRCORD SALES WOW MAN I’M JUST SURPISED THAT J.COLE STILL OUTSELLING KANYE HERE IN THE U.S AND TO THINK THE RIAA GAVE YEEZUS A PLATINUM CERTIFICATION FOR SHIPPING ONE MILLION COPIES WHEN 400K WILL NEVER BE SOLD ANYTIME SOON DAMN KANYE U SHOULD HAVE NEVER UNDERESTIMATED J.COLE JUST CAUSE HE WAS THE ROOKIE IT COSTED U MAN BORN SINNER WILL PROBABLY PEAK A 730K THOUGH WHILE YEEZUS JUST A LITTLE UNDER 700K BUT ANYWAY SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE TOP SELLING ARTIST OF 2013 EMINEM GOT IT LOCKED THOUGH FOR LAST YEAR HANDS DOWN HOPEFULLY THIS YEAR WILL BE ANOTHER BLOCK BUSTER SELLING IN 2014 I THINK MASTERMIND WILL REACH GOLD IN THREE MONTH AND WILL JUST HAVE TO SEE IF 50 CENTS ANIMAL AMBITION ALBUM WILL DO BIG ENOUGH NUMBERS TO GO PLATINUM BUT SO FAR 2014 SALES GOT NOTHING ON LAST YEARS LET SEE IF THESE ARTISTS CAN CHANGE THAT
copy and paste from last week.
Top 20
1) EMINEM – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 : 2,081,000
DRAKE – Nothing Was The Same : 1,540,000
JAY-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail : 1,144,000
J. COLE – Born Sinner : 683,000
KANYE WEST – Yeezus : 656,000
LIL’ WAYNE – I Am Not A Human Being II : 605,000
A$AP ROCKY – Long. Live. A$AP : 468,000
WALE – The Gifted : 357,000
RICK ROSS – Mastermind : 320,000
10) KID CUDI – Indicud : 271,000
CHILDISH GAMBINO – because the internet : 257,000
2 CHAINZ – B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time : 244,000
SCHOOLBOY Q : 240,000
MAC MILLER – Watching Movies With The Sound Off : 222,000
JUICY J – Stay Trippy : 211,000
TYLER, THE CREATOR – Wolf : 181,000
TYGA – Hotel California : 175,000
YO GOTTI – I Am : 169,000
PUSHA T – My Name Is My Name : 167,000
FRENCH MONTANA – Excuse My French : 159,000
Winning Teams:
#1) JayZ, J. Cole, Kanye — Roc Nation
#2) Drake, Wayne, Tyga — YMCMB
#3) Ross, Wale, French Montana — MMG
#4) Kanye, Pusha T — GoodMusic
The 10 artists above from those 4 labels were nearly on all of each others albums.
And nobody cares.
Tyga and 2 Chainz dropped their albums too close together and should have waited a while.
why does this one guy keep adding numbers from 2013 and 2014? why doesnt he count 2012 when kendrick and macklemore crushed all of these bums..
John Legend sitting at 489k so GOOD is winning way harder than MMG who didnt have one artist on the Forbes list last year, not even their CEO.
I think the guy is doing 2013 numbers because it was last year but I would enjoy if he would go all the way back to 2012 or 2011 but I guess its okay to do last years numbers.
that would be awesome i would love to see how many ross albums havent gone plat since 2011
JayZ was on these: Drake, Ross
Ross was on these: Wale, French, JayZ, Tyga, Pusha
Drake was on these: French, Wayne
Wayne was on these: Ross, Tyga, French,
and they all sucked, crazy how that works huh?
where’s officer ricky? didn’t he come out same time as pharrell
“No way in hell DJ Khaled has a higher networth than Tech who was on the Forbes list last year… Tech makes more than Rick Ross!!! Not a single MMG nigga made Forbes last year, check the scoreboard, STRANGE IS WINING.”
I doubt any DJ has a higher networth than an actual Billboard rapper or singer like Tech, Im unsure if any DJ in the rap industry even has a succesful record label like Khaled so both Strange and WTB are WINNING, much respect to both.
WTB not winning SHIT, don;t believe the hype. No one ever saw DJ Khaled or his artists on a Forbes list.
Vado needs to drop an album already.
Yeah so that shit can flop and do 8k first week. I mean if Ace Hood and Khaled can’t even sell 30k its not looking good for Vado. I know I won’t be supporting him since he abandoned NY for that terrorist Khaled.
Animal Ambition has less buzz than Tech N9ne so it should do 25,000.
he could sell 2500 but he still made 23 million more than most of these rap niggas this year.
Yes but this is the music industry not the money industry and most of us are music fans and not another-mans-money fans.
dont get it twisted this is the money industry, thats why when Rick Ross gives an interview all he talks about is how much money he’s getting and how much of a boss he is (even though he earns the same as Mac Miller #whiteboss).
LOOOOL Animal Ambition has more buzz than tech n9ne’s album 50’s been everywhere sxsw, breakfast club, hot 97, summer jam & he’s dropping good music every week, people know he’s coming back
just another lonely night at home drinking and eating takeout food arguing with white guys online…. thats teh sad life and times of Bruthadee aka graftedgenes aka H-Rap 180 the biggest racist troll groupie fag hip-hop has ever seen. #1 wingstop employee/former correctional officer and butt searcher.
#40 YG – MY KRAZY LIFE — 6,840
#43. RICK ROSS – MASTERMIND — 6,276
they forgot to add the homies to the list!
Upcoming: Common, KRIT, Fab, Wu Tang, Q Tip, Lupe, Wayne and Ghost, and Rae.
Mastermind sold well digitally, but will only see over 400k when it’s all said and done.
YG still got some bullets in the chamber, his tour should keep his CD coming off the shelves.
Just stop it, YG and Ross will both be done selling in a few weeks. Should have got some unknown white girls on there and they could sell for a year and a half like Kendrick.
“he could sell 2500 but he still made 23 million more than most of these rap niggas this year.”
That was a straight payout, not money 50 generated through any recent sales, singles, concerts or movies.
Whatever you tell yourself to justify your hate.
It was for ringtones and singles sales associated with GRODT, it wasnt a recent event.
but its recent money.
“At least “devil nine” (who’s not a devil worshipper) did it on his own”
Sure about that? O’ Gunn has made all this possible for years.
Nope. That’s all Tech.
“copy and paste from last week.”
thats the best reaction you can give me? Put some emotion in your post to prove to me that my post had a effect on you.
5 and a half months into 2014 and only one album over 250K.
10,000,000 = Diamond
1,000,000 = Platinum
500,000 = Gold
250,000 = Silver
150,000 = Bronze
100,000 = Copper
0-99,999 = Wood
wood?really?
Sounds like you hater.
Anything between 50k and 100k is aluminum and less than that is wood but the average Indie artist with distribution does 20K to 40K and the average major label rapper on average does 100K to 200K.
Tech N9Ne doing 150K on an Indie is not a flop by any means because he is not a mainstream artist, now if Big Sean does 150K on Good Music/Def Jam with a top 40 Gold single then the label will consider it a flop….so one mans Bronze could be another mans Gold.
“now if Big Sean does 150K on Good Music/Def Jam with a top 40 Gold single then the label will consider it a flop.”
I hope you’re not the guy who was denfending French Montana for flopping with 150k sold on Interscope/MMG/Bad Boy.
tech killin it
STRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNGE!!!!
HA!! Ross’s self made albums sold more than tech nine’s. Ross is a true boss.
Tech nine is known to be the black devil, giving blacks a bad name. Ross teaches about equality.
Wrong. Tech’s compilation albums sell more than Ross’ Self Made albums. Tech is not a black devil giving blacks a bad name, that’s Ross who doesn’t teach about equality.
Tech is a self proclaimed Weirdo and his music attracts those types of people especially the Juggalos and Horrorcore fans, I dont like his music but an respect his hustle. It isnt fair to compare Tech to a major label rapper.
Rick Ross is a self proclaimed correctional officer and his music attracts those types of people, especially the middle aged black nerds, I dont like his music but respect his hustle. It isn’t fair to compare a mediocre major label rapper who can’t go platinum to a independent boss who makes the Forbes list.
Tech nine didnt go platinum and may have gone gold once. What’s your point again?
tech n9ne doesnt even have to go gold, have a major label backing him or have 35 chicken shacks or endorsements from ciroc and reebok and he still earns millions more than the biggest bawse we’ve seen thus far, mac miller.
Why do you people feed the trolls?
im lonely and needs the social interaction
While everyone’s arguing about Rick Ross, 50, Eminem, and Young Money, I stay playing that Strangeulation. That shit is pure fire! ^S^
Agreed… Dope Album
Are you serious? We now have polls to determine which album is “better”? The only people who takes polls serious are girls or grown up men who still live in their mom’s basement because no one likes their shitty underground lyrical rappers. Strange Music is trash. I like how people say YMCMB, MMG, Roc Nation, GOOD Music or even TDE sound the same but Strange is unique? All the artists on there are Tech N9ne wannabes. Rittz sucks
SchoolBoy Q and YG could have sold more but they didnt have any white artists on their albums.
Everyone knows the key to sales in 2014 in having some unknown hipster white girls on that, thats surefire way for success. LOLOLOLOLOL
I think the labels know by now who the majority buying demographic is and how to target them for consumption of their product. Simple: crossover and generate interest from the pop side.
we dont believe you,
dope album!!
https://soundcloud.com/tmosbeatz
Masterflopppppp hahaaaaaa
I told y’all Pharrell will pass that pig officer ricky that co
Rick Ross still gets an annual $11 million dollar budget for his label deal though.
lol No he doesnt, thats why last year his total earnings were like 6 million, tied with Mac Miller and Questlove. He didn’t even make the Forbes list.
After he donated 29 million of his earnings to charity. Mac miller kept the 6 million he earned. He begged for ross to appear on his latest mixtape.
As for questlove, jimmy Fallon pays the roots big.
Ross only donates to himself, which is why he made the same as Mac Miller, who Ross begged to be on his mixtape.
Ross has been known to donate to charities. He even put up his mansion as a charity home. He made far more money than mac miller. Hell, 6 million is still 5.9 million more than you will ever see in your lifetime.
“He even put up his mansion as a charity home”
the only way Ross could afford a big boy mansion was to make up some fake charity so he could get a tax break ans some government assistance.
“Ross has been known to donate to charities. He even put up his mansion as a charity home. He made far more money than mac miller.”
No, he isn’t. He’s known for being fake. He made the same amount of money as Mac Miller.
You do know that ross is a character right? Nothing different than curly from 50. Eminem never lived the slim shady life he claims.
Ross doesn’t think he’s a character. This isn’t like Eminem and Slim Shady.
He doesnt too many interviews as William Roberts but he knows ross isn’t really him.
That is a bunch of bullshit.
Def jams stop buy that piece of shit.now they going to spend on that new dj coward single
Officer ricky flopppp lolllllll
Iggy handled his business
her?
Rick Ross’ music is stale, it has an underlying stench to it. Not surprised to see he won’t be going gold this time out.
tech n9ne doesnt even have to go gold, have a major label backing him or have 35 chicken shacks or endorsements from ciroc and reebok and he still earns millions more than the biggest bawse we’ve seen thus far, mac miller.”
1. Ross still made more money than you.
2. Ross donated more to charity.
1. He makes more money than your groupie ass, who won’t get a penny of it.
2. Ross only donates to himself.
1. I just dont get mad that he makes more than me, unlike you. I respect his hustle.
2. Ross donates money to the charaities of africa. My homies great.
1. I don’t care about him making money. He’s still trash.
2. No, he doesn’t. You have no homies.
1. In your opinion. Doesnt mean everyone agrees with you.
2. Are you sure you aren’t confusing him with dre? He made a billion only by keeping every penny. Respects more important.
1. Yet I don’t give a fuck.
2. No, I’m talking about Ross. Dre made a billion by being a good businessman, period, and he has the respect.
‘Tech’s compilation albums sell more than Ross’ Self Made albums’
Self Made Vol. 2 sold 277,000 copies. Tech’s latest stinker won’t even do 80k.
Yet Tech is independent so thats why you will see a guy like Tech on Forbles list last year but not one from MMG, not even the CEO titty man was in the top 20.
Titty man makes as much as a non bossed up indie rapper like Mac Miller but Tech N9ne is in another league when it comes to getting that paper.
Only in your dreams, Quote-girl.
Ross makes more than both. Hes generous when lending money. Mac and tech have to keep what they earn
No, he doesn’t. Ross keeps all of his money.
“Only in your dreams, Quote-girl.”
I love how Anonymous always gives his imaginary friends cute little nicknames, he will FOREVER be Anonymous no matter how hard he tries to turn anonymous comments into actual people.
What a silly comparison. Tech is an Indie Boss and Ross is a mainstream Boss.
Tech made the Forbes list based on his industry earnings for the previous calendar year and Ross did as well so they are both winning financially.
The major difference on the entrepanurial end is organizational structure whereas Ross is the sole CEO of Maybach Music Group and Tech N9ne is Co-CEO of Strange Music with Travis O’Guin.
“Tech made the Forbes list based on his industry earnings for the previous calendar year and Ross did as well so they are both winning financially. ”
Check the list, Ross wasn’t on it.
“The major difference on the entrepanurial end is organizational structure whereas Ross is the sole CEO of Maybach Music Group and Tech N9ne is Co-CEO of Strange Music with Travis O’Guin.”
I would rather co-own a successful indie label than be the “sole ceo” of a flop major label that only exists on paper.
” Ross is a mainstream Boss.”
You’re not a real boss if you earn the same as a white independent rapper who has no label, endorsements or restaurant franchises.
Extreme isolation due to the inability to form normal relationships/friendships within society can damage the psyche of an individual so badly that the individual will resort to extreme measures
to be acknowledged and have their existence recognized by others.
bruthadee is describing himself and his delusional groupie behavior online.
“Why do you people feed the trolls?”
We ignore it, but it talks to itself to pretend like it is talking to someone else.
i always say we but really im just talking to myself
im so lonely and sad but i had noodles for lunch in my hooptie
The most cruel heartless thing you can do to an attention starved troll is to ignore them and exclude them out of all conversations. 🙂
feelings were caught thats why bruthadee responded under one of his many names
“The most cruel heartless thing you can do to an attention starved troll is to ignore them and exclude them out of all conversations. :)”
Wont this make them more angry and more desperate to be acknowledged?
“The major difference on the entrepanurial end is organizational structure whereas Ross is the sole CEO of Maybach Music Group and Tech N9ne is Co-CEO of Strange Music with Travis O’Guin.”
Structure wise MMG reminds me of early Uptown Records in some aspects, they have the strongest executive team with Shari Bryant, Dallas Martin, Kendell Freeman, Alex Bethune, Carlos Suarez and
Lex Louis. When you have competent execs in position you can virtually exist as a nearly autonomous entity within the industry with minor interference from your parent label.
why cant none of them niggas go plat even once if they have the strongest executive team?
your picture is found in the dictionary next to the word DICK RIDER.
the black nerd just listed off a bunch of random names, he really might be on MMG’s payroll.
Interference is every artist biggest complaint, having a bunch of suits pick your lead single, force collabs and steer your career for the betterment of label profit is why most artists get disgruntled and go Indie. Creative control and artistic freedom is undervalued with the majors UNLESS you have a team in place that can do the ground work, the PR work, the promotional work and the bulk of the leg work that goes into an artists and their projects.
MMG pays Bruthadee in expired chicken wings to cheerlead for them like this.
To add on to post #4 I would have that structure at the top but also encourage my artists to have their own organized team within the team.
it just keeps talking to himself
No Limit is an example of over saturation and Cash Money is an example of adapt to the times, both should be studied while we are on the subject.
it said “while WE are on the subject” like he isnt just talking to itself
No Limit had Beats By The Pound and Cash Money had Mannie Fresh but honestly if Wayne didnt put them on his back after Mannie left they would be right where P and No Limit are.
Vanity labels of the past like LaFace, Bad Boy, Death Row, Cash Money, Ruff Ryder’s, etc all centered around a signature production team or signature producer….MMG lacks that.
When you look at what Organized Noize did with the Dungeon Family you get nostalgic for those labels that had a signature sound to represent their turf. On the flip side its hard to have a signature sound when you have a roster of diverse artists from various regions.
nigga go teach a class or something, no one cares to read groupie comments from an imaginary record exec
the machine within the machine, I look at what Mustard and IamSu! are doing with the Nu West and its pretty impressive but to many people its just a phase of sound like LiL Jon, Jazzy Phae, and the boy Lex Luger and will expire. signature sound never lasts.
I guess people wasn’t feeling like listening to a cop rap this week.
ja rule still on top of this rapgame. Murda Inc 4ever!
600 trillion sold and counting, all albums certified unlimited diamond
more like 900 zillion records sold
ja rule the realest nigga out there, even gucci cant mess with him
Tech has a loyal fanbase, underground heads tend to be more loyal than mainstream fans.
That’s so far from the truth. Mainstream fans only ask for one thing, hot shit every two years.
^
“and he still earns millions more than the biggest bawse we’ve seen thus far, mac miller”
That’s because of two things: 365 days of touring, and merchandise. Unless he plans on doing this until he’s 70, he’s running himself into the ground just so O’ Gunn can retire with most of the profits.
Still making up lies, huh?
Disprove anything I just said.
he said 365 days of touring and merchandise like selling millions in merchandise every year is a bad thing! i know he tours heavy but he takes time off too to enjoy all his millions.
O’Guin ain’t taking most of the profits since Tech owns half of Strange Music and everything else related to him.
Tech brought in 7.5 million last year I don’t think he’s complaining about his friend/business partner getting half the profits from the label.
Officer ricky flop hahaha
Pharrell already pass officer ricky lol
he passed him 3 weeks ago
Def jam say sorry officer ricky we can’t spend money on ur album
im happy that tech’s debut sales seemingly increases each album…id like him to have a gold album at least once in modern day