This week saw Yelawolf’s second album as a major-label artist jump into the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 upon release, the best debut of his career thus far. Less celebratory, Young Thug was booed during a live performance in Louisiana late last week but persevered through the set, tellings audience members, “I still love you.”
Meanwhile, Big Sean recently opened up about the passing of his grandmother earlier this year, Mannie Fresh dropped some new details about Lil Wayne’s Carter V, and Lil Wayne himself had some shots fired at his tour bus.
Hip Hop Album Sales: Yelawolf, Drake, Kendrick Lamar
Earlier this week Yelawolf’s second Shady Records release marked his first album to crack into the Top 10 ever after debuting at #27 in 2011 with Radioactive. Despite putting up the second most album sales of the week, Yelawolf’s Love Story clocks in at #3 this week due to relatively lower streaming activity than the Furious 7 soundtrack at #2. Yelawolf’s first album since Radioactive sold 51,472 first-week units and was streamed just over 2.75 million times. By contrast, that last album sold just over 40,000 albums upon release in late 2011.
Check out the full album sales report on HipHopDX here.
Young Thug Booed In Louisiana During Show
Performing at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last Saturday night (April 25) during a stop on his tour with Travi$ Scott, Young Thug was booed by audience members who already pledged their allegiance to the home state bred Lil Wayne.
Amidst interludes of fans chanting “Wayne,” “Hollygrove” and “fuck you,” Thug told them, “I still love you.”
Big Sean Speaks On Grandmother’s Passing
“She was one of the first female Black captains in World War II,” Big Sean recently said of his grandmother, who passed away earlier this year. “She was one of the first female cops in Detroit. She was a teacher, a counselor. She was the best grandma. She was the best mom to my mom.”
Read the rest of Sean’s comments about his grandmother on HipHopDX here.
Additional Stories: Mannie Fresh, Drake, Lil Wayne
– Mannie Fresh Discusses Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V
– Drake Called Out Over “No Tellin'” & “6 God” Beats
– Lil Wayne’s Tour Bus Shot At In Atlanta
For additional Yelawolf coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
does this clown young thug even exists anymore, i mean forreal, he let birdman exploit the shit out of him. he acted like a homo version of his idol, he has nooooooooooooo lyrical ability. his whole purpose in the game was fucked up…in all my years of being a hiphop lover i have never seen this type of rap character. he is worst than a biter he is some kind of morbid twisted hood nigga who let the devils use and abuse his mind.to think that he even thought he was even going to blow was sad in its self…wayne is one of the greatest, and shame on all you that turned there back on wayne a rap legend for some fuckboy like young thug..i havent seen or heard anything about young thug since that barter shit came out…besides his ass getting booed..that album went plastic…i hope they sent his ass back to the block…
You dumb lol he has like 10 hit songs he’s making bank, and you’re hating on the internet get a life.
yea yelawolf second album is better tha the first 1 it suck the 2nd one got at least 4 or 5 good singles on it n best friend with Eminem will put him on top of the charts without emienm on that he wouldn’t do nothn his style has changed ifulisten to trunk music n now listen to love story his style has changed his music n his dressing style is diffent
What? Couldn’t read your vomit.