Following appearances by three Hip Hop/R&B albums on last weeks’ Billboard 200 chart, Pharrell Williams’ G I R L and YG’s My Krazy Life were the only two Hip Hop/R&B projects in the Top 10 on the chart this week. Rick Ross’ Mastermind, an album executive produced by Puff Daddy, dropped out of the Top 10 to the #11 spot, while ScHoolboy Q’s third studio album, Oxymoron, dropped even further this week. Q’s album found itself at the #33 spot on this week’s Billboard 200 chart. And with its third week on the chart, Aloe Blacc’s Lift Your Spirit remains at the #19 spot with a little over 14,000 copies sold this week.
Pharrell Williams’ G I R L Climbs To #5
After falling to the #6 spot following the entrance of Compton rapper YG’s album, My Krazy Life, Pharrell’s G I R L has once again found itself in a Top 5 position on the Billboard 200 chart. The self-produced album from Pharrell sold 25,000 copies this week and managed to work its way to the #5 spot despite selling nearly 9,000 less copies than last week. With singles including “Happy” and “Marilyn Monroe,” G I R L is described in a HipHopDX review as boasting songs that are “very safe, barely scratching the surface of anything deep, personal or revealing.” The album received a 3.5 out of 5 in a HipHopDX review posted in early March.
YG’s My Krazy Life Falls To #7
Following a debut at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart last week with 61,000 copies solid in its first week, YG’s My Krazy Life has fallen to the #7 spot. With 23,000 copies sold this week, YG’s album moved nearly a third of what it sold during its first week of release.
Described by DJ Mustard as this generation’s The Chronic, My Krazy Life received a 3 out of 5 rating in its HipHopDX review and was referred to as “a well sequenced and cohesive package.” The album serves as YG’s debut studio album and includes guest appearances from a number of Hip Hop notables including Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and CTE World founder Jeezy.
Aloe Blacc Maintains #19 Spot, Rick Ross Falls Out Of The Top 10
With its fourth week on the Billboard 200 chart, Rick Ross’ Mastermind has fallen out of the Top 10 for the first time. The album sold 19,000 copies this week and as a result dropped to #11 on the chart. Last week, Mastermind clenched the #7 spot on the Billboard 200, a spot that’s now taken by YG’s My Krazy Life. In total, Rick Ross’ sixth studio album has sold approximately 275,000 copies.
One artist who managed to maintain their positioning on the Billboard 200 chart was Emanon wordsmith Aloe Blacc with his album, Lift Your Spirit. The rapper fell to the #19 spot on the chart last week and remains at #19 with 14,000 copies of Lift Your Spirit sold this week. A HipHopDX review from last month, in which the album received a 3 out of 5 rating states that Aloe Blacc’s Lift Your Spirit “showcases a wide range of influences,” but also “feels impersonal at times.”
Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 3/30/2014
#5. Pharrell Williams – G I R L – 25,000 (217,000)
#7. YG – My Krazy Life – 23,000 (84,000)
#11. Rick Ross – Mastermind – 19,000 (275,000)
#14. Beyoncé- Beyoncé – 16,000 (1,905,000)
#19. Aloe Blacc – Lift Your Spirit – 14,000 (74,000)
#20. John Legend – Love In The Future – 14,000 (406,000)
#25. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – 12,000 (2,029,000)
#33. ScHoolboy Q – Oxymoron – 10,000 (207,000)
#35. Bruno Mars – Unorthodox Jukebox – 10,000 (2,187,000)
#45. Jhene Aiko – Sail Out – 7,700 (189,000)
#47. Sage The Gemini – Remember Me – 7,200 (7,200)
#51. Drake – Nothing Was The Same – 6,600 (1,522,000)
#59. Young Money – Rise Of An Empire – 6,100 (48,000)
#66. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 5,900 (1,226,000)
* 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
Damn, Pharrell did pay off billboard to not count a majority of mastermind’s sales, just to make pharrell’s flop album look good. MasterMind actually sold 40k this week.
Nobody believes those lies.
damn son you cracked the case!
pharrel wouldve gotten away with it too if it wasnt for you meddling trolls…
It’s impossible for an album that was outsold by another to suddenly be ahead unless he was buying albums for himself.
Actually, it is possible. First week sales doesn’t solidify anything, total sales does.
Where did Ross sale 40k at?…worldwidesales?..I don’t think so..get with the fact that Ross has peaked..the fact that he hasn’t crossed over has actually hurt his chances at being as big as he thinks he is
“It’s impossible for an album that was outsold by another to suddenly be ahead unless he was buying albums for himself.”
youre not the sharpest knife in the drawer are ya son?
pharrell has a triple platinum song that is being played everywhere right now so his sales are going to be more consistent
rick ross has nooooo single popping right now so he hasnt done anything but drop since his first week
if anything def jam is more notorious for buying albums to get attention not columbia…
Kendrick keeps on selling because he put some white hipsters no one ever heard of on his album to appeal to the white demographic.
White-skinned people love the sound of Hipsters in their music, I would add them albino bitches to my album if I was on a major, have them lepers crooning in the background adding that white bread sound that hypnotized the Ofays.
That makes zero sense considering that there’s only two white hipsters on that album who only contribute background vocals and aren’t on the singles. Putting hipsters on your albums doesn’t help appeal to a white audience at all.
yep that must be it…
its because of the whole grammy thing that happened
“Putting hipsters on your albums doesn’t help appeal to a white audience at all.”
Yes it does. Why else do you think Kendrick Lamar, J Cole and Macklemore sell more than Rick Ross, Nas and French Montana?
Oh my God dude, putting white people on a HipHop album to give it a sound that appeals more to white people wont help it sell to whites dude, white people prefer Black singers like Tyrese over white singers like Elvis dude. OMG fricken A’.
“Yes it does. Why else do you think Kendrick Lamar, J Cole and Macklemore sell more than Rick Ross, Nas and French Montana?”
No, it does not.
“Oh my God dude, putting white people on a HipHop album to give it a sound that appeals more to white people wont help it sell to whites dude, white people prefer Black singers like Tyrese over white singers like Elvis dude. OMG fricken A’.”
Your attempts at sarcasm fails.
Putting hipsters on your album only helps appeal to a hipster audience, which is multi-racial and is very tiny compared to the mainstream audience.
Fuck a Hipster audience, just put some white bitch vocals on your album and watch the critics suck your dick, you might even win a Grammy.
Funny because those critics didn’t even say anything about those background vocals, they were focused on Kendrick himself.
Damn this is an age old debate..but the facts are the people that buy music are white boys and women of any race..thats where the sales going .its a fact niggas always talk about wanting to be have the hood on lock but,in reality the hood don’t buy cd’s…
“Fuck a Hipster audience, just put some white bitch vocals on your album and watch the critics suck your dick, you might even win a Grammy.”
LMAO
My nigga YG should have went platinum but MKL is the best album out in 2014
Good joke.
YG dropped a solid album but if 99% of rappers cant even go Gold in this era then why would you expect him to go Platinum? Its 2014, you can DL the music for free straight to your phone and plug your earphones into your phone and listen to the whole album……for FREE.
First week sales aren’t everything, Pharrell is moving up spots while others are falling down.
And Pharrell had to keep buying albums by himself to be above ross.
No, the fans are buying Pharrell’s albums.
Rick Ross is not on Pharrell’s level.
Then why accuse of ross buying his own albums yet get pissed off when I say pharrell but his own albums.
I didn’t say that shit, someone else did. Doesn’t change the fact that what you say is a lie.
You’re right, Ross is on a level far bigger than pharrell.
Don’t think Pharell has to buy his own shit..if you wacth tv u see him on every late night talk show and a lot of other things..he doesn’t hurt to have the biggest single of the year so far..the single is at 4million sold..it helps just ask Robin Thicke
Pharrell’s album should have been platinum by now.
Only in your world.
Pharrell sucks.
To you
the record company only buy them the first 2 weeks, you might not like pharrel but that happy crap getting mad play. it’s just like some cee-lo type shit, its cool not hip-hop but still ok to chill 2
@Young Money Rise Of An Empire…LMAO
More like “Ruins of an Empire”.
Wanna get more girls?
Listen to light skinned rappers and pop stars!
Drake
Miley Cyrus
Justin Bieber
Tyga
Wiz Khalifa
Lil Wayne
Katy Pery
= Girls, Girls, Girls *blinks*
Quit generalizing the girls. Not all of them like that shit.
Eminem flopped like fuck for his standards and appeal
That’d be true if he didn’t sell 2 million.
Somebody slap this dummy!!
“Actually, it is possible. First week sales doesn’t solidify anything, total sales does.”
And total sales for ross keep increasing every week. Eventually, all of his albums will go platinum because at least 1 copy will be sold each day.
It’s too late for April Fools. Ross’ numbers are decreasing every week, not increasing. None of his shit went platinum at all.
“Ross’ numbers are decreasing every week, not increasing”
his weekly sales are decreasing while his total sales increase week after week, basic shit fool
Every artists’ total sales increase every week.
Next time he should read my comment. Yes his weekly sales decrease (don’t act like 50’s increase weekly) but his TOTAL SALES increase.
Also, POM went platinum. A promo vidoe for mastermind says it.
You’re still gonna believe that lie from a bullshit video? POM did NOT go platinum.
Then why don’t you sue ross for false representation?
That makes no sense. Regardless, that damn video lied.
What a sad pathetic life dental boy lives, the only thing he can do is sit on dx and create arguments between himself. The worlds not a scary place brother, you should try an get a job, maybe try to improve your social skills and go talk to some girls.
How sad is your life to be wondering about dental dam boys life
Masterflop lol
lol @44wade bitch said officer ricky would be gold in a few weeks and then platinum smh
He will still go gold again.
NOT!!
50 trained one of his puppets to name drop and refer to Ross with a ranking title of Officer as if Ross has rank over them in some manner.
Bruthadee copy-pasting old comments.
nah he just repeats the same shit so much it comes out sounding the same
@BruthaDee copied and pasted a comment that was used before.
I wonder if officer ricky ever watch cb4 lol
How many of you Black American rappers can drop a Gold album without a white feature?
Plenty.
Kendrick Lamar
J Cole.
Soulja Boy for one. LOLOLOLOL
K Dot had anna wise and J Cole also had the cults.
Who?
background vocals is not a feature,
ludacris and jeezy and got albums with no white power
The only people who knew Anna Wise and Cults were on those albums are black nerds who study song credits looking for a reason to hate.
i dont think weezy had any white features on the last couple of albums he released unless drake counts.
None of the rappers from last year could do it.
Wayne had that skater guy, KDot and Cole had Caucasian ladies, Kanye had Caucasians all over his album and Rick Rubin produced it. this is a cool research.
Background vocals don’t count. Which of their singles had white features?
“Wayne had that skater guy,”
you cant be serious. lol. that guy is a loser and not a rapper.
How many whites became rich after stealing black music (like jazz, funk, rap, rock etc)?
u really wanna go down that road? LOL
Fuck this trick bitch thats saying background vocals dont count, what kind of dead level music does this trick listen to where all the vocals on the song are not a part of the song?
Watch these tricks start saying that samples dont matter.
And fuck you, too. Background vocals don’t count as features.
J Cole knew what he was doing by putting Amber Coffman on his third single off his sophomore album “Born Sinner”, he wanted some of her sound and some of her fans.
Amber has approximately 35 million views not counting the 4.5 from the J. Cole song/video.
In order for us to manipulate whites into buying our music we have to give them “sounds” that appeal to them and “guests” they can relate to…..50 Cent is the king of this formula.
You are still wrong, Bruthadee. Amber Coffman is unknown to the mainstream world. She has no hit songs, her fanbase is small. J Cole already has a big enough audience and has nothing to gain with working with this unknown indie chick. Power Trip featuring Miguel hit the Top 20 and went platinum and Crooked Smile with TLC made the Top 40 and went gold. There is no sounds that appeal to one race, no guests, and no formula.
yeah dude you’re delusional. youtube views do not translate to record sales, especially through different genres like that.
you think dirty projects fans rushed out to buy J Cole’s album because the singer from that band sang a chorus or background vocals on one of his songs?
Plus, J Cole’s audience is bigger than Amber’s. If anything, this is her trying to gain a bigger audience with working with Cole.
I would think you’re way better off getting verses and features from some way more popular artists like The Weeknd, Jay-Z, Jeezy, Lil Wayne, Kanye West or Big Sean but that doesn’t always work out for some artists so their fans will blame white people.
J.Legend will be gold in a couple of months. dude never disappoints GOOD Music.
Officer ricki is watching cb4
How many of you White American rappers can drop a gold or platinum album without a black feature?
theres only like 2 that sell and they both black features.
I know for a fact Eminem could drop an album with only two features from people like Skylar Grey and Nate Ruse and still go multi-platinum.
How many Black people do you hear bumping Macklemore or Eminem and they still sell millions of copies digital and hard.
But yeah to answer your question maybe 2 or 3 which is a lower percentage to Black rappers doing the same thing due to the fact that Blaxk rappers outnumber white ones in the mainstream 100-1.
“That makes no sense. Regardless, that damn video lied.”
Regardless, Actual (Lack of ) Ambition froim fiddy is going to bomb and sell less total than what mastermind sold opening week.
Only in your wet dreams.
meanwhile Ross still ain’t matched J Cole’s first week sales after a month in stores.
Only because he didn’t compromise and put white hipster ladies on his record to appeal to the light skinned geeks.
Same can be said about J Cole.
“Only because he didn’t compromise and put white hipster ladies on his record to appeal to the light skinned geeks.”
You’re right. Ross compromised and worked with Lady Gaga to appeal to light skinned geeks.
White geeks like you say compromise but we see it as cross promotion and a way to get into the homes of white people all over the world.
1. I’m not white.
2. That ain’t cross-promotion at all, compromising.
3. Only speak for yourself, not others.
Ross did a freestyle over gaga’s work. Rappers do it all the time, freestyle. Ross never worked with gaga.
Bullshit.
Nigga I heard one white boy from 50s camp say that Rozay jumped on that GaGa and R Kelly remix and thats when I knew they aint really hip to music like we are so they cant discuss it.
“Ross never worked with gaga.”
only because he didnt have the chance but he was praising her in one of his interviews kissing the white females ass.
Sweat Meat is BruthaDee in disguise.
@BruthaDee was posting about Officer Ricky.
isnt he always posting about officer ricky? even when he’s not he really still is, lol. thats why you find him on every 50 article writing hate paragraphs.
Gusto=officer ricky cb4 for life
Animal ambition June 3
Those cb4 fans are crazy ain’t no a list artist going to work with officer ricky
I’m watching cb4 n I’m thinking about those mgm niggas except meek mill
Masterflop
Bet you heard the album tho…
I just heard the Rick Ross free version it was dope, heres the link if anyone wants to experience all that is Mastermind without that fat cop, squeak mill and lil waynes raps.
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/58417312/file.html
MMG baby. We’ll be gold by June while Curly releases the biggest flop of his life.
Dream on, stanley.
Please don’t use slang words made up to describe the freakish white groupies that white cross dressing rapper has on me.
Nope. Stanley describes you being a Rick Ross groupie.
RAPPER CATCHPHRASES:
50 Cent – Actually
Rick Ross – Most Definitely
J Cole – Incredible
Kendrick Lamar – That’s Crazy
Drake – *Insert Feminine Tone*
Gucci Mane – BUURRRRRRRRRRRR
thats not what a catch phrase is,
Your chick must like Drake or you’re an ugly fat chick yourself lol.
Butthurt Drake stan alert.
Who’s watching cb4 officer ricky for life
Is that you Keenan Cahill or PrunesForever? 50 trained his geek unit puppets to name drop and refer to Ross with a ranking title of Officer as if Ross has rank over them in some manner.
BruthaDee again making up bullshit.
That was a white skinned loser pretending to be a black man.
:^ @BruthaDee made the second comment
“Wayne had that skater guy,”
you cant be serious. lol. that guy is a loser and not a rapper.”
I’ve seen wayne beat out tony hawk in a skating contest. The first ever 4,500 done by wayne.
No one believes that lie.
12 and a half rotations when he cant even do an ollie?
Copying and pasting bullshit responses? I have seen wayne skate well. My mama even told me that all we need is enjoyment and then we’ll be terrific at it.
Nah, it’s you who’s copying and pasting old bullshit. You’re just making up untrue statements to defend your hero’s lack of talent.
7,200.. ahhahahahahahahahahahahahhaahhahahaha
“You’re right. Ross compromised and worked with Lady Gaga to appeal to white skinned geeks.”
How much do you think jumping on a remix with R Kelly & Lady Gaga effected the sales of “MasterMind”?
If that was Ross best attempt at crossing over into pop music territory then the fat boy will never be successful. If you want to appeal to white people then just add a white artist to your album that either has an Indie buzz or a pop base or a vagina.
An indie buzz isn’t gonna help anything since the indie crowd is small.
This nigga keeps thinking some white singers with a lil indie buzz online is somehow more of an advantage than having Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, The Weeknd, Diddy, French Montana, Big Sean,Meek Mill, Scarface, Sizzla, etc on your album.
Those fanbases alone are 100x the buzz of any indie white chick.
Yeah the Indie crowd is small and Mac Miller just sold 200,000 CDs and made as much money as Officer Ricky.
That new Indie/Hipster gimmick is why Em put Nate Ruse on MMLP2.
they dont like to be called niggas
How many times do we have to go through that bullshit? Ross does make more money than mac miller. He just donates most of it to charities. Like the one about starving people in africa. Or the people molested by fiddy.
There is no indie hipster gimmick.
One of those white chicks he keeps attributing to Kendrick Lamar’s success doesn’t even have a wikipedia page. LMAO.
“How many times do we have to go through that bullshit? Ross does make more money than mac miller. He just donates most of it to charities. Like the one about starving people in africa. Or the people molested by fiddy.”
This is definitely another lie from dentalbitch.
“Yeah the Indie crowd is small and Mac Miller just sold 200,000 CDs”
Mac Miller and Amber Coffman and Anna Wise don’t run with the same indie crowds.
I thought that Drake’s NWTS would reach double platinum. Funny how dissing that movie star on that Rolling Stone’s cover ruined his career.
I think we need to stop all the hate of our fellow man in these forums and get together and LOVE EACH OTHER! Look your fellow man in the eye and put your hand on his chest to feel the pulse of his heart. That’s real HipHop (as long as the other man is dressed like a woman)!
“Anonymous:
i dont think weezy had any white features on the last couple of albums he released unless drake counts.”
Wayne had Shane Heyl rapping on his last album and Wayne modified his entire image with skateboards and guitars to appeal to white consumers.
So ask yourself when was the last time a a straight up Black African American dropped a Gold/Platinum album that does not have a white artist feautured on it in the credits:
already said, Ross, Jeezy, Ludacris, Soulja Boy, I could go on but dont feel like it.
DO you know who Shane Heyl is? He is not respected by anyone more people purposely didn’t buy that album because he was on it.
how did that ruin his career? its not like he was selling major units every week before that happened.
if he’s lucky he will sell 5k every week for a year like kendrick has been doing.
Yo someone tell me wtf this Brotherdee stuff is all about. Is he a rapper?
12 and a half rotations when he cant even do an ollie?”
I’ve seen him do ollies now.
No, you didn’t.
on some real shit hhdx needs to get rid of this comment section and move to disqus. this shit old and lame for real.
disqus is full trolls to, but some of them have selfies on display so we can see that it’s a middle aged black guy who’s hating on white people everyday instead of anonymous.
LOL YEAH I PEEPED BROTHER DEE ON THERE TOO, YOU CAN FIND HIM ON EVERY 50 CENT ARTICLE WRITING ESSAYS ABOUT HOW HES A CRAB WITH BAD RELATIONSHIPS AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES
“How many times do we have to go through that bullshit? Ross does make more money than mac miller. He just donates most of it to charities. Like the one about starving people in africa. Or the people molested by fiddy.”
Cosign everything he said. Ross has a lot of revenue streams while mac miller has none except for his rich parents. Ross is helping kids all over the world.
dentalbitch is co-signing himself and the lies he spoke.
How is this a lie though. Ross is helping charities all over the world. It’s not all drugs, killing, and sex.
Because it’s not true. It’s all lies you make up in your head. Ross only helps himself.
Some white kid saw on the Hip-Hop Forbes list that Rick Ross didn’t make the top 20 and was tied for earnings with the drummers from The Roots and a white rapper who never went gold once.
Another old comment from Bruthadee.
Ross only helps himself.”
A complete lie. He has a record label helping others like wale and meek mill, he donates to charities that supports people from africa, and he inspires and helps struggling people from the streets.
You should talk about his noodles and fingernails again.
“A complete lie. He has a record label helping others like wale and meek mill, he donates to charities that supports people from africa, and he inspires and helps struggling people from the streets.”
This entire comment is a complete lie.
Rozay just opened up about 7 MMG themed WingStops in the South at about 400K a pop with 1.5 million insurance on each one and their Champagne Belaire Ros is one of the fastest growing on the market.
Wrong.
“you think dirty projects fans rushed out to buy J Cole’s album because the singer from that band sang a chorus or background vocals on one of his songs?”
why rush anywhere when you can just DL it on your IPhone?
Why buy any album?
What makes people buy albums?
What sounds appeal to people more than others?
Why do more whites like Heavy Metal?
Why do more Blacks like Gospel?
What are A&Rs?
What is cross promotion?
What is niche marketing?
Why do labels release tracklistings of features?
So many questions that your mind could never answer and this is why consumers can be explored so easily.
The irony of this coming from a pseudo-intellectual who thinks he’s an A&R.
Nah son, you’re still an idiot for thinking an Amber Coffman feature is more appealing to white audiences than features with Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, The Weeknd, Diddy, French Montana, Big Sea, etc.. all who sell more records, play bigger shows and have larger fan bases than Amber Coffman.
One of the whites is so confused that it makes me giddy with excitement knowing that consumers of HipHop are this naive.
Let me address my brothers on here:
My brothers…what could ever be more “appealing” to white people than other white people?
Is it an accident that Marshall Mathers has more white fans than any other Black rapper on the planet?
We can manipulate these people with ease because they are entirely clueless or maybe they just enjoy a good marketing chat, they think Amber Coffman is there for her “popularity” or her “fame”, they are too ignorant to realize that she is there for her SOUND.
What could sound better to a white mans ear than the singing of a white woman?
Music is about ingredients, look at Yeezus, that’s some shit the average brother can’t even listen to but white critics gave it Universal acclaim and said it was one of the best albums of the year…..ingredients Bruh, add a lil Daft Punk, add a little Rick Rubin, add a little Amber Coffman and white people like that SOUND.
A lot of tricks can be used to get your music heard across different demographics and generate interest in other genres but in this era of dwindling sales it’s important to appeal to white peoples ears if you want to brag about going platinum…and if you can’t capture them with your music then use your image, ride a skateboard, play a guitar, date a white gal, use their slang, adopt their dress and mannerisms…..get money I can’t be mad.
BruthaDee wrote half of a novel full of logic holes and nonsense.
“they think Amber Coffman is there for her “popularity” or her “fame”, they are too ignorant to realize that she is there for her SOUND.”
Newsflash: Amber Coffman’s SOUND isn’t that popular. Do you see her songs anywhere on the Billboard charts? Do you hear her songs on the radio? Is she on any magazines? Is she on any award shows? NO. She’s just an unknown indie act, not a pop star.
I get it, people incorporate different sounds into their music to attract and appeal to different people from different demographics.
“One of the whites is so confused that it makes me giddy with excitement knowing that consumers of HipHop are this naive.”
your life sounds pathetic man. thats why you write so many long comments responding to geeks online. you’re a geek just like them.
“they think Amber Coffman is there for her “popularity” or her “fame”, they are too ignorant to realize that she is there for her SOUND.”
Funny, weren’t you just bragging last week about how she has 15 million YouTube views and featured on a #1 Dance album, and saying that “whites” see her name featured on Cole’s album and it makes them buy it?
yes he was, i think down below he dropped the fact that she has 35 million “youtube plays”.
“Anonymous:
I get it, people incorporate different sounds into their music to attract and appeal to different people from different demographics.”
LMBAO, they love that white hippe sound and niggas is laughing all the way to the bank, I was telling one of my young boys to go do a collab with a white Ho for his Mixtape, just to add that corny ass bitch ass white bitch sound that hits their ears and gives them an extra incentive to fuck with your music. Fuck these mutts lets rape their pockets.
you’re delusional and completely out of touch but thats understandable for someone your age.
Why do labels release the tracklistings with the Features?
Why do the labels release the tracklistings with production credit?
Why the fuck does a nigga like me who grew up on JayZ know who the fuck Chris Martin is?
Why the fuck does a rap nigga like me who listens to JayZ every week know that Luke Steele and
Mr Hudson are singers?
……..could their be a parallel universe where someone at the opposite of the spectrum could ask the same questions in relation to JayZ?
just admit you’re 40
Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet?
Why did Judas rat to Romans while Jesus slept?
RZA was at his peak then, I feel like when he switched up his sound a little that’s when they fell off.
Yo, why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets?
Why is the industry designed to keep the artist in debt?
And why them dudes ain’t riding if they part of your set?
And why they never get it popping but they party to death?
Yea, and why they gonna give you life for a murder?
Turn around only give you eight months for a burner? It’s going down
Why they selling niggas CD’s for under a dime?
And if it’s all love, daddy, why you come with your 9?
Why my niggas ain’t get that cake?
Why is a brother up north better than Jordan
That ain’t get that break?
Why you don’t stack instead of trying to be fly?
Why is ratting at an all time high?
Why are you even alive?
Why they kill 2pac n’ Chris?
Why, at the bar, you ain’t take straight shots instead of poppin Cris?
Why them bullets have to hit that door?
Why did Kobe have to hit that raw?
Why’d he kiss that whore?
Why?
“RICK ROSS FREE MASTERMIND DOWNLOAD:
I just heard the Rick Ross free version it was dope, heres the link if anyone wants to experience all that is Mastermind without that fat cop, squeak mill and lil waynes raps.
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/58417312/file.html”
I can’t believe this is a real thing. HAHAHAHAHA
5 songs?
This entire comment is a complete lie.”
No it’s not. MMG signed 30 artists and also supports charities.
McDonalds and Pizza Hut aren’t charities.
30 artists who only serve as background characters and Ross only supports himself.
I swear I read the same shit every week from you nerds.
They get paid and im talking about charities like red cross.
Your lies get dumber everytime, dentalboy.
Tell me what charities does 50 donates to? He’s the one keeping the money for himself. NOT ROSS.
he buys guns for kids in africa
Nah, Ross is the one keeping the money for himself.
50 cent keeps that money for himself. Ross ended Curtis’s career groupie.
You got that backwards, groupie bitch.
Geek unit nerd feeling’s caught.
MMGeek nerd caught feelings.
White people ride 50’s dick and hate on mmg just because 50 signed to eminem at one point while ross did it on his own.
White people ride Ross’ dick and hate on 50 Cent just because 50 didn’t lie about his past while ross did.
Ross didn’t do anything on his own. He had Def Jam, Jay-Z, and Diddy backing him up.
White people seem to hate Ross…..the poor Negro lied about a brief teen job stint and lost the Burbs but Eminem lies about his racist rap songs and gains the world.
The Black man just cant win.
BruthaDee’s lies, everyone.
@Bruthadee with more dick riding.
White geeks always talking about riding dicks and hurt butts. you can tell what kind of sick minds they have.
Glad to see Aloe Blacc still on the charts. His single is really tearing shit up. Its good to see him getting other recognition for his work throughout his project as a whole. Ups to YG. Doing well. Gonna hit 120k I think. R.R= played out alter-ego/ Hope he hits 310k and not gold. Liked his work with Common and wale, though I don’t like his shit at all really. Rise Of an Empire=throw aways. Doesn’t show the the potential of many artists and lacks unity to me. GEEEH
YG is flopping homie.
Ross didn’t do anything on his own. He had Def Jam, Jay-Z, and Diddy backing him up.”
Def Jam crawled to Ross, Jay Z was part of def jam at the time, and diddy is buddies with ross.
Wrong. Ross crawled to Def Jam and Jay Z, and Diddy is Ross’ business partner.
It’s cute to argue back and forth if you lonely or bored I guess but y’all need to use more common sense in your debates.
If JayZ was involve with signing Ross and Jeezy while he was one of the executive heads at Def Jam what does that have to do with their success as artists?
Diddy got cool with Ross when he relocated to Miami but of I was Ross I’d keep that snake under close watch.
look at the lonely and bored geek getting trolled
I dont even want to say Diddy is a snake he is just a smart business man that has his paperwork in order.
Nah, he’s a snake. Look at all of the artists who signed to Bad Boy and where they’re at now.
French seems happy. He has a pet monkey.
That Diddy bought for him. Wait until that next album flops harder than EMF and we’ll see how happy French is.
young money rise of a flop
october 22 2012 – april 4 2014… 1.226.000… if theres not dl leak.. the sales would be around 3 milion… But this is hoq it is.. If album is good people would buy,if album was total trash and fantasy stories it even didnt hit gold… this trap sound is boring,i mean if you on the east coast your sound cant sound southern and if you west you cant sound southern… We need someone who can hit the chart like the rappers do in 80s,90s and early 00s… like NWA,Dr.Dre,Snoop Dogg,2Pac,The Notorious BIG,Jay Z,DMX etc. we need some energy and true stories and originality… Theres some good dudes,but they cant rose to shine because they not have a right label and promotion… Peace to all you,be true be what you are,dont act if your a bad lier…
Rambling idiot, you are the reason Nicki Minaj outsells all the skilled rappers with just ass and titties. I cant wait for Champagne Papi to shit on you morons with Hot fire.
Champagne Papi? HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!! That has to be the gayest name someone can give themselves.
what would you expect from a male Drake groupie?
Kendrick second album selling 400,000 FW with an overall sales of 1.8 Mil
hell yeah if J Cole can sell 300k FW it shouldn’t be a problem as long as he gets a white hipster to sing some backup vocals he should be platinum again for sure even though she can’t even go halfway gold herself.
Im calling at least 650k1st week and 2 million total.
I don’t know about that. Unless he gets a huge hit single, I can’t see that happening.
I’m confident that he will have a major hit single this time.
At the very least, it should outsell GKMC.
“I get it, people incorporate different sounds into their music to attract and appeal to different people from different demographics.”
Exactly, the less intelligent ones are just useless eaters and mindless consumers but there are a select few who dialogue about the culture, politics, and workings of the industry without and have no desire to make it a personalized intimate experience with an identity….dudes ain’t that starved for attention.
But yeah man it’s not a difficult formula, you add a chick to a rap song and chicks start digging the song because they can relate and it appeals to them.
You add a rapper to a chick song and all of a sudden the niggas want to listen; Nas did a Reggea album with Damian Marley and introduced Junior Gong to rap fans who didn’t know him and vice versa, it didnt sell as well as JayZ doing a Rock collab with Linkin Park but then again Nas and Damians music didnt connect with white consumers as much as JayZ and Linkin Parks.
If I wanted to attract white females to a project I would include white females, I wouldnt get Madonna or Adele I would get an average ass white female like Skylar, Pink, Fergie, or Hayley Williams….or better yet some folk chick like Anna Wiise from Sonnymoon who can give you that white hippie chick feel without the overt pop sentiments.
Make sure you follow @Bugsyonthebeat & @ItzPOKA
know one knows who anna wise or sonnymoon are, they dont even have a wiki page and were uncredited on the back of the album so i dont see how thats supposed to help.
If you really knew what you were talking about you would be working in the industry instead of debating with geeks online.
Fuck that shit, some niggas dont give a fuck about adding some white bitch ingredieants to a album just to increase the odds that white weaklings will cop your shit, once white weaklings jump on your badwagon all the niggas jump off and your career is over.
i never even noticed the white girls on kendricks album until a sad racist black guy on here kept bringing it up to try and explain how kendrick lamar possibly outsold every rick ross album. groupies are funny.
It’s not so simple. People try the white girl thing all the time and fail miserably.
We control the minds of these white zombies, I can plant a seed in their weak little minds and they start “noticing” shit in our music. LMFAO, you can turn them gay, you can make them give people shout outs and even make them go on treasure hunts for worthless information. E-puppets.
We got a ugly ass white bitch on my esse homie song that nobody has ever heard of but the ugly white bitch sounds like a white bitch so white bitches be feeling that song and putting money in my homie pocket. We exploit weak white people by selling them music so we can fatten our pockets.
Bruthadee putting in work as a troll.
Can anyone confirm that Bruthadee had a mayonnaise sandwich for lunch in his hooptie?
made fresh with 10 drops of Rick Ross breast milk
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA MASTERFLOP IS STRUGGLING
yeah next week only 11k no gold for masterflop damn all of 50 albums certified
Actual ambition won’t be gold though. Rick Ross will still gold because of shipments.
Still wrong.
I remember back in the day when mofos use to go Platnium in a month. Be sure to checkout thegrandreport, they got some good hip hop and viral videos on there
nobody will ever probably go platinum in a month again since album sales have rapidly declined….I remember Tha G-code went platinum in a month, so did tha block is hot….Wayne is gonna go platinum again with Carter 5 tho.
didn’t eminem do it?
damn p caught up quick and he got a plat single
3x plat to be exact
who is buying that young money album
600k bought it so far.
The old Young Money album?
Rise of an empire. It sold 600k so far. I bet 50’s feeling mad now that we signed game.
Fall of an Empire didn’t even sell 50k and Game ain’t even signed to Cash Money.
why would 50 be mad? game is not a solo artist he needs the hip hop community to make him a album and 50 got paid from all of his albums 50 is the hottest artist at the moment game cant even afford to go indie and do it big like fif.
“50 is the hottest artist at the moment”
on what planet?
The G Unit groupies tend to add J Cole and Mac Miller to their list of favorite rappers just to stay relevant.
Wrong, bitch.
having direct bearing on the matter in hand; pertinent
Dude I personally turned one of them into a raving lunatic lol, ha! The one that always types Cb4gusto over and over again used to be normal like us but I changed him forever and turns him into what he is now.
what u do to him? some vampire rape?
gfid shipped gold so I knew mastermind would flop
One of the Bladk Brothers on here makes the white guys scream his name, dat Boi is a hero, he need to work for the CIA.
hell yeah its inspiring and powerful to see a middle aged black man with nothing going on in his life troll white nerds on hip-hop comments sections
I heard Officer ricky is watching cb4
I’m watching officer ricky on the cb4 movie
I’m watching the cb4 movie gusto=officer ricki
Fuck those mgm cb4 motherfucker masterflop lol
What about family matters.
Yes Carl Winslow is also Rick Ross in another dimension.
Sage Flopped Hard. Two Big Singles And He Sold Under 10k LOL
what big singles are you talking about i never heard one.
Gas Pedal and Red Nose.
congrats to YG….
hopefully SCHOOLBOY Q can at least go SILVER..250,000
GKMC is still on the charts after 75 weeks = 13/16…instant CLASSIC!
wtf is silver, that ain’t a thing dog.
Schoolboy I’ll make it to Silver.
I guess Rick Ross’s sales was a small sugar high.
http://hiphopcriticalmass.blogspot.com/
Actual Ambition has Hot tracks from Kid Kid but Eminem refused to be a part of garbage so their wont be an Eminem feature.
How do you know the features if he hasn’t revealed them all yet?
where the fuck is Pinata on the album sales?
unfortunately its probably somewhere below kendrick. less than 5k.
damn shame, that was AOTY.
trolls mad ross flopped
Gunplay’s going to rule hiphop in 2014.
I hope so but we’re 3 months in and it’s not looking good. It’s gotta be discouraging to be 35 years old with no album out yet and no real world skills apart from carrying weeds and talking tough on video but not being able to back it up.
It will come out this year. He shot up gangsters plenty of times. He’s harder at work on his album than young buck.
Please. The only gangsters Gunplay shot is the ones on GTA 5.
not looking good for mmg when your boss cant go gold its a problem meek album flopped the 2nd one wont do any better. GUNPLAY album will never come out NEVER.
Things have never been better for MMG, Rozay just opened up about 7 MMG themed WingStops in the South at about 400K a pop with 1.5 million insurance on each one and their Champagne Belaire Ros is one of the fastest growing on the market. I know all this because I am the ultimate groupie. Rick Ross once let me hold his fries at Wingstop.
1. Ross will go gold again. It’s 50 who can’t go gold.
2. Meek’s album is a hit, going no.2 with 175k sold opening week. Lloyd Banks, on the other hand, can’t get one out since his last one bombed.
3. Gunplay will put out an album this year. Where’s young buck’s album at?
young buck hasnt been g-unit in years are you a tard
Doesn’t matter. Where’s young buck’s album at? For all the shit you talk about gunplay, young buck is doing worse.
Even more pathetic when your former boss is now indie, releasing singles wildly to generate buzz, all for the end result of 40k 1st week come June.
“Doesn’t matter. Where’s young buck’s album at? For all the shit you talk about gunplay, young buck is doing worse.”
Young Buck is younger than gunplay and has already released 2 albums and recently just got out of prison after 18 months.
“Even more pathetic when your former boss is now indie, releasing singles wildly to generate buzz, all for the end result of 40k 1st week come June.”
I dunno mane, they got him headlining Summer Jam, gonna be a hot summer, 40k will probably be the pre-order numbers.
“releasing singles wildly to generate buzz,”
Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
40k is what 50 cent will do most opening week. If 50 cent beats out mastermind’s opening weekend, I will give you $100. If 50 cent doesn’t match that, you give me $100.
40K is how much 50 will do in pre-order numbers.
“1. Ross will go gold again. It’s 50 who can’t go gold.”
You got that backwards. It’s Ross who won’t go gold since the hype is dying down.
“2. Meek’s album is a hit, going no.2 with 175k sold opening week. Lloyd Banks, on the other hand, can’t get one out since his last one bombed.”
Meek’s album is a flop.
“3. Gunplay will put out an album this year. Where’s young buck’s album at?”
Where’s the buzz? Gunplay got shelved.
meek album a hit? wtf DAMN how low can standards go these days lol 50 will do way more than 40k remember he is indie he has the bread to press up enough copies to sale they have to be SHIPPED not sold just like GFID shipped gold but really didn’t go gold.
“Even more pathetic when your former boss is now indie”
Indie is doing things for yourself because you can afford to 50 is not like these other indie artist he don’t have RECORDING CONTRACT with a indie record company he a DISTRIBUTION DEAL the indie you talking about is totally different haha game is indie so why he looking for a major deal as a recording artist he has a label but he cant afford to support his label.
“releasing singles wildly to generate buzz,”
Because he can and how else you suppose to get buzz by saying wildly your use to the major label set up where they beat you in the head and tell you months ahead about one single 50 indie he don’t need majors telling him what to do
all of ross major label videos for mastermind have been low budget trash he been pumpin devil was a lie up and jay didn’t even do the video ross album did good for the first week but he has no singles out that’s doing anything.
“Even more pathetic when your former boss is now indie”
uhm jay-z indie haha nothing but idiots online
“Even more pathetic when your former boss is now indie, releasing singles wildly to generate buzz, all for the end result of 40k 1st week come June”
40k actually would be good money wise he don’t have a recording deal with the label they just press up copies and ship them what can they charge him 3 dollars a cd maybe less avg cd 15 dollars after tax and this is 50 he pays for his beats and features up front so any money made from the project is all his he cant lose but he will do more than 40k
“1. Ross will go gold again. It’s 50 who can’t go gold.”
all of 50 albums certified he only has 1 gold album
“yeah next week only 11k no gold for masterflop damn all of 50 albums certified”
Certified crap. Ross could quit tomorrow and it wouldn’t change the fact he had a nice run. 6 albums. 3 compilations. Appeared on scores of songs.
Nope.
you love 50 and Ross dont you?
Look who’s talking.
“6 albums. 3 compilations. Appeared on scores of songs.”
And they all sucked ass.
a nice run? lol ross and run in the same sentence
All you ever say is nope lol You should be on a debate team.
And all you do is be a bitch nigga.
“And they all sucked ass”
According to 1 hater. A lot of people liked Teflon Don.
Wrong. They sucked ass according to a lot of people.
“According to 1 hater. A lot of people liked Teflon Don.”
According to one dickrider.
and Teflon Don got 79 on metacritic, stop hating for no reason.
Nah, it didn’t. Stop dickriding.
“Is this supposed to be a bad thing?”
Every week it seems like he’s releasing a single off the album. I’m all for new music, but you gotta pace yourself.
Many artists do the same shit. You’re just nitpicking.
they’re not all singles. hes literally putting out every song.
They say gusto=officer ricky is fucking watching cb4
rap music is going out of business – these sales are pathetic. it’s a combination of the internet, label consolidation and dumbed down artists causing this. Even if a track is kinda hot why would you pay to hear someone pop a bunch of negative self-absorbed nonsense when you can just torrent it for free?
the problem is these big corporations that own the labels have other more valuable interests that make more money keeping people ignorant and divided (banks, weapons, private jails, etc) than they would by selling artists who might have something worthwhile to say.
until fans (especially those under 25) knowledge up, boycott major label artists and start supporting independent artists by buying their records the situation will not improve!
it ain’t gonna happen because their newfound target demographic not only has disposable money, they have disposable mentalities
don’t ever forget that their “best” album lately, ‘The Heist’, took 2 years to be noticed! they were paying attention to Lil B, Kreayshawn, Odd Future, what the INTERNET PRESS was following (because many of them don’t know where to even find underground music), all while that Macklemore album was sitting there getting no play
an issue like that says they are even more dependent on what the labels present, WITH internet in their faces
im disappointed pinata already fell off
damn shame
he not mad he happy as fuck gibbs is indie he made about 250k last week its not like he on a major its supply and demand he good its these major label artist that’s hurting they gotta recoup pay managers pay other labels for artist features producers don’t get paid on time major labels is the old way of putting out music if you hot enough you can do it yourself.
ROZAAAAYYY FINNA STRIKE GOLD AGAIN!!!
#MASTERMIND
He ain’t gold yet.
no where near GOLD….not even close. sold only 19,000 last week. out of the top 10….bu byee!! phat boy #AnimalAmbition
#MASTERMIND…CLASSIC
Said no one ever.
Lmao, that joke never gets old.
Man the music Industry is Dead you can count on two across all genre’s of music the artist that go platinum still. Its hard to go gold now. If music isn’t dead the sales surely are. I understand now why HMV’s are slowing dropping off one by one.
*count on two hands* Is what I meant to say.
If your name isnt: Eminem, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J.Cole…forget about seeing your album selling.
Nicki
J Cole has two albums and neither of them sold more than 650,000 each lol. Kendrick has only one platinum album and needs at least two more.
“J Cole has two albums and neither of them sold more than 650,000 each lol. Kendrick has only one platinum album and needs at least two more.”
J Cole is one of the only new rappers that can say they went gold. Tyga, French Montana, Ace Hood, Chief Keef, YG, Schoolboy Q, Meek Mill, … none of them can say that,
“Kendrick has only one platinum album and needs at least two more.”
needs at least 2 more for what? Rick Ross doesn’t have 1 platinum album and hes doing just fine.
Nicky flop with her last album.kanye flop with yezus.weezy flop wit ianhb
her last album is certified platinum, how is that a flop
It didn’t sell platinum, though.
Masterfloppppppppp lmfao
That nigga saying nickki last album platinum lol y’all right
look it up, it only sold 914,000 from the last numbers i can find but it shipped platinum.
What female rapper in the last 5 years has even went gold though?
didnt lil kim claim to sell 113k in 28 hours through paypal? LOLOL
MY MAN CURTIS STAY WINNING YALL. DID YALL SEE HIM DO IN DA CLUB NUMBERS WITH HIS SINGLES LAST WEEK?I KNOW YALL HATERS SAW THE NUMBERS MAN,SOLD MAD COPIES. ANIMAL AMBITION WILL DO GRODT n THE MASSACRE NUMBERS YALL WAIT N SEE.ANIMAL AMBITION GONNA SELL MORE THAN RICK ROSS ALBUMS…IF IT DOESN’T SELL MORE THAN RICK ROSS,CURTIS GONNA QUIT RAP.PERIOD!!!
like I said, the first day it came out. Mastermind IS WACK!!!! wont even go Gold. Trust!!! wack azz rozay fans dont know real Hip Hop music #AnimalAmbitionSKI
“Many artists do the same”
Name them.
“uhm jay-z indie”
Roc Nation is distributed by the largest music corporation in the world, Universal Music group. If you think that’s indie then you make a retard look like a straight A student.
you expect jay to distribute his albums worldwide himself?
all the smart indies get major label distribution so they are in more stores and can sell more records which will make them more money because they cut out the major label for everything but the distribution.
no where near GOLD….not even close. sold only 19,000 last week. out of the top 10….bu byee!! phat boy #AnimalAmbition”
He almost shipped 500k copies though so its gold. It’s even unlimited diamond if you consider a never ending supply of digital copies of mastermind.
“unlimited diamond if you consider a never ending supply of digital copies of mastermind.”
fuck yeah i like the way you think. Rozay got 6 unlimited diamond albums, you needs need to catch up.
wake up and smell reality….lol…nigga said, almost shipped….wtf!?!?! and the most stupid thing you said….was unlimited digital supply…..what a gotdam clown.
Ross fans are grasping at straws
Nerds love numbers, lol, if Millioanire rappers cared about Gold/Platinum as much as the nerds do then these Millionaire rappers would be buying digital copies of their own albums just to say they went Gold instead of buying Mansions and Maybachs.
“all the smart indies get major label distribution so they are in more stores and can sell more records which will make them more money because they cut out the major label for everything but the distribution”
Roc Nation still falls under the Universal umbrella. No way Jay is going to use his own money, and that was my point. Roc Nation may be his entity, but he has people he answers to. Also, most indie artists can’t convince corporations to buy a million copies of their album before release.
“J Cole is one of the only new rappers that can say they went gold. Tyga, French Montana, Ace Hood, Chief Keef, YG, Schoolboy Q, Meek Mill, … non”
Wale went Gold, Wiz went Gold, B.O.B went Gold, Cudi went Gold, Kendrick went Gold,
Yes. Still not very man.
K Dot didn’t just go gold, he went platinum. Those other dudes went gold years ago.
Wale went gold lmfao when
2012 i think, Ambition, look it up.
Kendrick went what industry insiders call a weak platinum.
i know def jam wishes rick ross could sell 1.2 million in a year and a half
No such thing as weak platinum, it’s platinum, end of story.
I would call Nicki Minaj a weak platinum because she didn’t sell a million yet but she shipped it.