There were two new additions to the charts this week from Hip Hop, both of the major label variety. will.i.am’s first solo album since announcing the Black Eyed Peas hiatus grabbed a Top 10. The veteran Los Angeles, California emcee/producer/singer’s #willpower is the second of his four albums to be backed by Interscope/A&M Records.
First he was Snoop Doggy Dogg, then just Snoop Dogg, and now, in his 20th year releasing albums, he’s Snoop Lion. The Long Beach, California O.G. emcee dabbled with Reggae, Dance and some new political views on his twelfth studio album, Reincarnated. With a new sound, name and look—as well as RCA Records backing for the first time in his lengthy, label-journeyman career, Snoop grabbed a Top 20 debut.
Kid Cudi’s Indicud avoided the sophomore-week slump, and sold over 31,000 more units, beating out both of the new releases charting this past week. G.O.O.D. or not, Cudi still sells great.
will.i.am Has #willpower And Staying Power
Over 20 years removed from a deal on Eazy E’s Ruthless Records as a producer/Atban Klann member then known as Will 1x, will.i.am has become a global superstar. After transforming the Black Eyed Peas (what the Klann would later evolve to) from a major label-backed underground Hip Hop group to Dance music juggernauts, Will has returned to his solo pursuits. #willpower actually beat out longtime L.A. Rap peer Snoop Dogg’s (as Snoop Lion) Reincarnated, by nearly 8,000 first-week units.
A long way from his 2001 Lost Change LP on BBE Records, #willpower further delves into Dance and Electronic. While Juicy J and B.E.P.’s apl.de.ap make appearances, the album is driven by guest shots from Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and the Britney Spears-assisted hit “Scream & Shout.” Will still self-produced the entire album, with a few points of assistance.
This effort is over 30 places higher than will’s last album, 2007’s Songs About Girls, easily making it the multi-talented artist’s best solo outing to date.
Snoop Dogg Is Reincarnated As Snoop Lion
Twelve albums into his career, Snoop Dogg seems to have made his biggest experiment to date. The Doggfather to Tha Dogg Pound traded the khakiks and perm for braids and beanies with his latest. Reincarnated featured extensive involvement from Diplo’s Major Lazer outfit, as well as Reggae/Dancehall guests including Mr. Vegas, Mavado and Collie Budz.
Like #willpower, Reincarnated also pulled from the mainstream. Miley Cyrus appeared on this Mad Decent/Vice/RCA debut for Snoop, as did Drake. Longtime Snoop Lion producer/protege Terrace Martin and Akon were two of the few past collaborators to carry into this LP. The album sold less than half of the first-week units Snoop delivered in 2011 with The Doggumentary. That effort was a Top 10 debut for the S-N-double O-P, and his last project in a deal with a revived Priority Records and his own Doggystyle imprint.
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 4/28/2013
#8. Kid Cudi – Indicud – 36,000 (167,000)
#9. will.i.am – #willpower – 29,000 (29,000)
#11. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 28,000 (638,000)
#12. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being II – 25,000 (383,000)
#16. Snoop Lion – Reincarnated – 21,000 (21,000)
#30. Tyga – Hotel California – 12,000 (84,000)
#33. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 10,000 (868,000)
#98. Andy Mineo – Heroes For Sale – 4,700 (32,000)
#100. Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge – Twelve Reasons To Die – 4,600 (20,000)
#110. Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y – Live In Concert – 4,200 (18,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000. Each week, HipHopDX presents top albums in Hip Hop/related, and five notables.
Will Rittz or R.A. The Rugged Man make a bigger splash on the charts?
SNOOP FLOPP!
Damn will i am or what ever the hell his name is, dude flopped so hard, I wonder if he will go aluminum lol
i guess he aint shit without the black eyed peas
WEEZY IS DOING STRONG NUMBERS!!! HE WILL GO GOLD NEXT WEEK!! SNOOP AND MAKMORE FLOP!!! HE WILL SIGN TO BIRD MAN!! TYGA WILL BE AT 300K NEXT SALES TOO!!!
SCRATCH THAT, I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING 2 IS SEEING A 1000% SURGE IN SALES AND WILL GO DIAMOND NEXT WEEK!!!
I how delusional you are. Macklemore is not flopping; he’s still outselling Wayne.
Wayne is not doing strong numbers. He’ll go gold at the most, but he’s not going any higher. Tyga isn’t gonna see any big boost in sales. He won’t go gold; he’ll be wood.
Will.i.am even flopping, wow! And the homie Tyga is struggling. Y’all should checkout thegrandreport, they be having some good stuff too
no one go on this website!! i went there and got a virus and then i got the flu!!
fuck the grande report and their good reads. they will give you herpes too.
SNOOP IS A FLOP!! HE GOT NO SWAG. J COLE WILL FLOP!! LIL WEEZY AND DRIZZY ON TOP OF THE RAP GAME FUCK HATERS NIGGA!!!
j.cole will flop???? you are an idiot shut up lil kid
what about NORE, and Papoose?!
you dont get on the board for selling 100 copies, only for the big boys
Who and who?
Currently, both are scouting for cardboard boxes.
21,000 faggots bought reincarnated smfh
ITS KINDA HARD BEING A SNOOP D-O- DOUBLE G!!! WHEN HIS ALBUM BOMBS WITH LESS THAN HALF OF HIS SALES OF HIS LAST ALBUM F-L-O-P.
no one wants to hear reggae snoop
My nigga Wayne doin decent numbers considering this isn’t the album people are forward to. So when the new carter drops he’ll go gold in bout 2 weeks
cudi outsold tyga….fuck yeaaa
Tyler the Creator sold double what Tyga did first week also
LOL @ the tyler comment. SALUTE INDICUD
people lie, #s dont…Games album 1st week sales double that of Snoop…but y’all hate on game..dont understand why? homie keeps it real and stays on track of making REAL hiphop music…JESUS PIECE for life..CLASSIC
jesus piece was a solid concept album..only thing that doesnt make it anything close to classic is theres like 20 guest features for no reason. half of it doesnt even make sense
LMAO @ doubling Snoops first week sales of 21k. thats still a huge flop my brother
Ja Rule went platinum
12 years ago
retard Noreaga sold 230 copies of his piece of shit, Papoose zero, plus 14 returns!!!!
I wonder what william hes sales are on Mars?
We can assure you that at YMCMB, no artists flops. We get laid by women each night so thats how we also measure our revenue.
Everything you say is bullshit. Every YMCMB artist that’s not Drake or Nicki Minaj flops; hell, mamy of them don’t have an album released. None of them gets laid by women, but men.
Our YMCMB members get laid by women. Our assets are unaccounted copies of I am not a human being 2. The album actually went diamond yet billboard doesnt count sales outside of target and best buy and itunes. Most of the albums are sold in rap stores.
Stop with the lies. Nobody at YMCMB are getting laid by women. INAHB2 didn’t even go gold. Billboard counts ALL sales and all those sales say Wayne’s album isn’t even gold. Seriously, get a life instead of trolling the Internet and making up lies.
questlove porchmonkey time coming soon. stay tuned fellas!
Nothing great this week
LOL AT GHOSTFACE, 12 REASONS TO FLOP. I KNOW HE’S ON INDEPENDENT LABEL, JOE BUDDEN IS ON INDEPENDENT AS WELL, WHEN HE DID 30K IN FIRST WEEK, IT WAS A FLOP, NOW YOU ARE SAYING THAT GHOSTFACE NUMBERS ARE OKAY? STUPID HYPOCRITES.
LIL WAYNE IS WINNING ANYWAY, HE WILL BE GOLD SOON. TYGA IS DOING GOOD CONSIDERING HE HAS NO SUCH SINGLE LIKE RACK CITY AND THE ALBUM IS UNDERPROMOTED. WITH RIGHT SINGLE, GOOD PROMOTION, IT COULD BE ABLE TO SELL 70-90K IN THE FIRST WEEK AND EVEN GETTING A GOLD LATER.
AND SNOOP ALSO HAS GOOD NUMBERS FOR A REGGAE ALBUM. HE ISN’T POPPIN’ LIKE BEFORE, SO IT’S NOT A FLOP. MAYBE A LITTLE FLOP.
WILLIAM FLOPPED, HOW’S THAT POSSIBLE? ALL THAT SINGLES ON THE RADIO AND HE SOLD ONLY A COUPLE THOUSAND MORE THAN SNOOP WHICH HAD NO BIG SINGLES AND LITTLE PROMOTION.
AND I’M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD – NEXT WEEK, WE WILL SEE HOW R.A. THE RETARDED MAN FAILS TO CRACK BILLBOARD HOT 100.
and dick rider of 2013 award goes to….
The reason people say Joe Budden flopped is because he put out more promotion, singles and videos than Ghostface but i personally dont think he flopped considering how poor slaughterhouse sold as a group
Fuck off you faggot. If it was just about record sales, then Lil Wayne is better than Rakim. Of course you probably believe that anyway.
joe budden sold out and had lil wayne on his single trying to do it big. the fact that the nigga is on love and hip-hop and still only pushed 30k is pretty funny
PROBABLY YOU EXPECT ME TO SHOUT ALL OVER RANDOM PHRASES LIKE “RAKIM IS WACK” OR “FUCK RAKIM AND FUCK YOU” BUT TO BE HONEST, RAKIM IS ONE OF A FEW REAL RAPPERS BACK THEN AND ONE OF THE FIRST RAPPERS WHO GAINED A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. I’M PRETTY SURE LIL WAYNE USED TO LISTEN ERIC B AND RAKIM ALBUMS AND RAKIM KNOWS IT – EVEN IN ONE VIDEO, HE PAYS HOMAGE TO LIL WAYNE. MOST OF THE VETS RESPECT LIL WAYNE – KRS-ONE, SCARFACE, NAS, BUN B, EMINEM, SNOOP DOGG AND THE LIST GOES ON.
RAKIM IS ALSO A VERY RARE EXCEPTION – HE IS A GOOD RAPPER AND HE DIDN’T COLLABORATE WITH DJ KHALED OR DJ DRAMA. IT’S A CERTIAN RULE IN HIP-HOP THAT EVERY GOOD RAPPER, WHO WANTS TO BE RELEVANT IN THIS CENTURY, HAS COLLABORATED WITH DJ KHALED. RAKIM IS THE SHIT BECAUSE HE NEVER MADE A SONG WITH KHALED AND YET HE STILL HAS A SKILLS.
YEBO, everything you say is bullshit.
No Guns allowed? more like no sales allowed.
snoop will get over this phase and get back to making hood/commercial shit
Idiot question, but do these count cd, vinyl and itunes album sales?
P.S. Ja Rule, please don’t answer
Such a pity since Ja Rule is the only one who knows the answer.
It wouldnt be fair to count Vinyls and itunes cause Ja Rule would be the highest all time selling artist
Wayne never fails to reach gold. What a stud!!!!
I want to learn from him how to attract women.
but you the same clown that said 50 flopoed with a gold album but wayne is a stud? Gtfoh
Then you’re gonna have a hard time.
check his digtial download sells! he making that money!!
it’s sales not sells. fuck you kids are stupid
keily williams said spictacklar in her video diddy said hello good morning thats not nice of diddy,yuguyyugyuyug
Man what happens to wiz Album I liked it but he ain’t moving no units as of late
its funny hearing people say someone albulm flop, but i like to see how the person is living who is saying it
Nobody needs to be a musician to point out a flop.
Everyone that isn’t Kendrick, Macklemore and Kid Cudi are flopping.
Macklemore the alcoholic is indie, and shouldn’t even be counted. His success took ten years, therefore is nothing more than a fluke.
You’re a fucking idiot. Macklemore is not an alcoholic. Him success still counts, whether he’s indie or not. He puts in the work and it paid off; he deserves it. Stop being a hater.
How much did Game, Meek, Wiz, Nicki, and A$AP sold?
not enough to matter
and as of a week or 2 ago Kendrick has passed Nicki’s sales and he now has the highest selling Hip-hop album from 2012
these are from like a week ago so add a few thousand
A$AP ROCKY – Long. Live. A$AP : 325,568
NICKI MINAJ – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded : 835,581
2 CHAINZ – Based On A T.R.U. Story : 588,436
RICK ROSS – God Forgives, I Don’t : 530,079
T.I. – Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head : 450,456
G.O.O.D. MUSIC – Cruel Summer : 446,461
WIZ KHALIFA – O.N.I.F.C. : 364,231
NAS – Life Is Good: 362,256
MEEK MILL – Dreams And Nightmares : 347,103
My ass just queefed on my boyfriends dick. Is this embarrassing? i assured him it won’t smell but i don’t like the way he looked at me. pls is this embarrassing? i need an answer.
I meant I queefed on my women’s pussy.
These numbers are horrible. Snoop flopped. Will I Am flopped. Ghostface flopped. Hate to say it, but a shitty Wayne album at 400,000 suddenly isn’t looking to bad.
Umm… Wayne isn’t at 400k yet and that is bad, considering Tha Carter 4 did 4x that.
“and as of a week or 2 ago Kendrick has passed Nicki’s sales”
NM’s has already gone platinum, so to even make this silly statement just shows how diluted you are from reality. Call me when Kendrick has $25 mill in the bank and has conquered the sophomore slump.
Nicki’s album isn’t even platinum. She sold out and became pop. Kendrick is still a better artist.
1. Look at the sales. Kendrick did pass Nicki’s album.
2. This isn’t about money, so that argument is useless.
3. Nicki didn’t conquer the sophomore slump; PF:RR didn’t even outsell Pink Friday. Kendrick, however, did conquer the sophomore slump (Section 80 is his debut album)
And half of that money belongs to Wayne and the Williams brothers.
Nicki is a pop star on one of the “hottest labels” who has a major gig hosting on American Idol. For a guy like Kendrick Lamar to be outselling her LATEST album is a bad look for her.
“I how delusional you are. Macklemore is not flopping; he’s still outselling Wayne”
Is he outselling The Carter IV? Seriously, stop riding this drunk’s dick.
Tha Carter 4 came out in 2011; INAHB 2 is Wayne’s recent album and that shit got outsold by Macklemore’s album. BTW, Macklemore’s not a drunk.
He’s on an independent label and doesn’t have the fanbase of Wayne, so its not fair to compare C4 with The Heist.
My ass just queefed on my boyfriends dick. Is this embarrassing? i assured him it won’t smell but i don’t like the way he looked at me. pls is this embarrassing? i need an answer..
Im sorry, I mean queefed on my girlfriend’s face.
TYGA AND WEEZY STAYIN ON TOP OF THE CHARTS!!! MAKELMORE AND KENDRICK SNOOP FLOPPED!! WESTCOAST CANT SELL NO RECORDS!! THEY WISH TO SIGN TO YMCMBM BUT THEY WILL GIVE US A BAD NAME!!!
Everything you say is bullshit. Wayne and Tyga ain’t on top of shit. They’re flopping hard. The West Coast is selling records; Kendrick and Macklemore outsold both Wayne and Tyga and they don’t wanna go to YM.
You do realize that Kendrick is still here, right?
tyga is from cali
Young Money is losing money on Tyga.
Young Money is losing money on everyone except Wayne, Drake and Nicki
Eminem has gotten into a feud with dr dre. He’s taken his Shady records label over to YMCMB!!
shut up queef boy!
You suck at trollin. Get some new material and stop making up BS lies.
As someone who works at Interscope Records, I can tell you that’s a lie. I work with Dr. Dre and Eminem and they get along well. Eminem said he was never leaving Aftermath/Interscope ever.
Since Interscope’s statement, Eminem’s come up to me saying that he wants to work with YMCMB!
PSYCH!! Eminem doesn’t wanna work with YMCMB anymore.
I didn’t say none of that shit. I’m staying at Aftermath/Interscope and staying away from YMCMB. I heard that YMCMB aren’t treating their employees well and don’t pay the artists enough money.
PSYCH AGAIN!! Eminem told me Dr Dre had tried to make numerous sexual advances on Eminem and he got uncomfortable. He also didn’t like how Dr Dre raped Kendrick Lamar, out of money and his asshole. YMCMB doesn’t do any of that and they pay their artists well. YMCMB crew also gets an allowance of pussy and women. I get a cut of that as well. That Eminem that posted here is obviously fake.
Republic Records Representative is dentaldamboy in disguise, making up lies. I know a fake when I see it.
snoop is international artist. He will sell more than 1 million records outside usa….dont worry about tha lion
FRENCH MONTANA WILL OUTSELL J COLE!!! RICK ROSS WILL BE PLATINUM BEFORE KENDRICK AND LIL WAYNE WILL BE PLATINUM BEFORE MAKELMORE!!! YMCMBM MMG STAY ON TOP OF THE RAP GAME!!!
Stop kidding yourself. Rick Ross is no where near platinum and French wont even go gold after a year
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOD JOKE. FRENCH WON’T OUTSELL J COLE, RICK ROSS WILL NEVER GO PLATINUM EVER, AND WAYNE’S NEVER GOING PLATINUM AGAIN UNTIL HE RELEASES ANOTHER CARTER ALBUM. YMCMB MMG ARE NOT AT THE TOP OF THE GAME; THAT TITLE GOES TO DEF JAM AND AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE.
Are J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore the new standards for high record sales???
Hip Hop started in the streets and it will forever be in the streets, the fact of the matter is. Nobody in the streets is listening to Macklemore, only kids from the burbs. i don’t care how lyrical he is, it’s fuckin wack in the streets. Only people in the urban community (not suburban ) should have say to what is dope hip hop and what isn’t, this is NOTHING special. Kids from the suburbs tend to think just because a rapper is “lyrical” that makes them great! 2Pac , Too Short, Eazy E, and many many others weren’t the most complex rappers but they are more legends, why? Because they kept it street. These underground, and lyrical cats can rhyme as many words out of the dictionary that they want and it is still wack in the streets why? Wack subject matter, wack hooks, wack beats, nobody wants to listen to any of that.
People wake up, street hip hop (biggie, 2pac, big l , meek, jeezy ) any rapper that reps the streets, YES even Gucci will have more respect than these lyrical cats, because hip hop IS the streets, and if the streets aren’t feelin it, than it doesn’t matter how versatile you are, wack is wack no matter what!
Bawse!!!!
Kill yourself for the bullshit you said. The hood/streets don’t buy; they just download them. Why do you think a lot of rappers don’t make music for the hood anymore? Because the hood/streets are just lazy bums who don’t have a life. Hip-hop is bigger than the streets/hood; it’s universal. The most successful rappers understand that street music alone doesn’t sell. The streets don’t decide what’s dope or not; hip-hop heads dictate that. Fact of the matter is, nobody wants to stay in the ghetto forever and hip-hop is evolving, whether you like it or not. So get your close-minded head out your ass and learn some shit.
stfu I’m from the bricks and own hundreds of albums I’ve bought not including vinyl and cassettes back in the day
oh and Hip Hop isnt universal it’s international, for it to be universal you would have to prove it exists beyond this planet
but you go right ahead and tell people to “learn some shit”
SMH, you’re dumb. I didn’t mean universal literally. I meant universal as in crossing over boundaries of different backgrounds all over the world, basically the same thing as international. Think before you speak.
FUCK KENDRICK LAMAR, J. COLE, 2 CHAINZ, ODD FUTURE, LUPE FIASCO, MEEK MILL, WALE, DRAKE, WIZ KHALIFA, BIG SEAN, KID CUDI, B.O.B, MAC MILLER, YELAWOLF, LAUGHTERHOUSE, MACHINE GUN KELLY, ASHER ROTH AND ALL THESE WACK FRESHMEN RAPPERS THAT SOLD THEIR SOUL TO THE DEVIL.
FUCK EMINEM, JAY-Z, RICK ROSS, LIL WAYNE, KANYE WEST, DR. DRE, DIDDY AND NAS FOR MAKING SONGS WITH THOSE WACK RAPPERS.
KILL THE ILLUMINATI! THEY KILLED PAC, EAZY-E AND BIGGIE! ONLY DMX AND BEANIE SIEGEL REMAINED THE TRUE WARRIOR FOR THE KILLUMINATI SOLDIERS!
LISTEN TO REAL MUSIC LIKE IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, LOWKEY, K-RINO, DIABOLIC, APATHY, CELPH TITLED, VINNIE PAZ, SEAN PRICE, HOPSIN, MC JIN, NECRO, CANIBUS AND ALL THE REAL UNDERGROUND LEGENDS!!
Hopsin is a underground legend since when lol? Calm down your putting to much emotion into a comment on a hiphop website, that wont influence peoples musical taste in the slightest. Do yourself a favor and spend more time outside and less time watching Illuminati videos on youtube. peace.
how gives a shit music is music!
Cocaine fuked DMX up lol u think rappers are immune to addictions?
lol, u do know that dmx made two songs with machine gun kelly right?.. and u know that beanie is in prison right?..
“INAHB 2 is Wayne’s recent album and that shit got outsold by Macklemore’s album”
Why isn’t anyone pointing this out but you? Answer, one throwaway album by Wayne doesn’t change the fact he’s gone platinum in a week before. It took Mr. Miller Time Macklemore a decade just to get to the point where he can sell 700,000. He’s small time.
Seriously, you have problems. INAHB2 is an official studio album, so it still counts. He went platinum in a week 5 years ago, still don’t mean shit. Macklemore is an independent artist who’s been grinding and putting in work and now, that hard work payed off. Success doesn’t always come overnight.
That’s because birdman only spend YMCMB’s royalty money on the Carter series
Nicki’s album isn’t even platinum. She sold out and became pop. Kendrick is still a better artist”
Her first album was, and she’s pretty close now. Regardless, you don’t think Kendrick will sell out? He already appeared on SNL. It’s only a matter of time before he does an Ace Hardware commercial.
Performing on SNL is not selling out moron.
Quoteman on his Massengil shit again……
“Umm… Wayne isn’t at 400k yet and that is bad, considering Tha Carter 4 did 4x that”
Wayne can’t release just that series. In the end, he’ll still go gold, and make money off this touring while you sit at home masturbating to Keep Ya Head Up.
And you won’t get none of that money while you defend him like he’s your brother.
He’s my cousin. Family is family.
Yeah, right. Nobody believes you.
whiteboy about to go platinum and there are still people arguing with me when i tell them that the colour of your skin contributes to your success.
like i predicted this macklemore dudue gonna outsell all “other” hip hop acts and oh, i’m sure its because the hip hop community is supporting.
Kendrick is outselling Macklemore.
One album doesn’t mean he’s outselling all other hiphop acts. Is he outselling Eminem? Jay Z? Of course not cause his success is a fluke, designed to get losers like you with limited taste to support his false movement, which by the way took 10 years to achieve.
You’re fucking stupid. Macklemore’s success is not a fluke; it’s hard work paying off. There’s no false movement; just great music. Of course he’s not outselling Eminem or Jay-Z because he’s not at their level, but he’s outselling many rappers who put out albums recently.
Macklemore is dope and I’m glad to see he’s finally getting noticed, but dude is not even the best white rapper on the list. That Andy Mineo joint is crazy – had it on constant rotation this week.
“Nicki didn’t conquer the sophomore slump; PF:RR didn’t even outsell Pink Friday. Kendrick, however, did conquer the sophomore slump (Section 80 is his debut album)”
She’s going to be certified platinum, so if you think that’s a slump, then I can’t help you. Section 80 didn’t do shit, and most kids think Good Kid is his first official introduction into the mainstream anyway. He’s gonna have a gang of pressure come his next album. Watch this female voice sounding flash in the pan go Drake’s route thinking that will get him to push a million faster. He can’t even go platinum now despite all you cum guzzlers proclaiming him the king of hip hop.
actually section 80 was an independent album and was released exclusively thru iTunes and good kid maad city was first major label debut so of course its gonna sell more
Quoteman getting his bitch one as usual. Nothing to see here folks. Just an old out of touch loser whining again.
Quote-man, everything you just said is hate-filled bullshit lies. Kill yourself.
In about 10 years, Nicki will be washed-up and irrelevant like her rival Lil Kim while Kendrick will still be making classics and conquering the rap game..
Nicki Minaj aint selling shit right now. It fell victim to the sophmore slump.
As for Kendrick, while GKMC may be the pinnacle of his career, he will do far better than Minaj.
and be remembered for having classics
Even though most people consider Nas’s Illmatic album to be his best album, he’s been having classics since 2001 after that inital slump.
Quote-man is dissing talented artists while defending shitty rappers and pop stars.
Which I find strange because he is at least 38 years old. Likely way older. Bitch needs to grow up.
EMINEM WILL FAIL WITH HIS NEW ALBUM!!
NO, HE WON’T. HE’LL SUCCEED MORE.
hhh joke the year
Recovery 7 milli worldwide , and new album xmilli
I can assure that eminem wants to sign with YMCMB!!
No, he doesn’t. I spoke to Eminem and he said he’s staying at Aftermath.
Eminem is on young money dumb ass
No, he’s not. As someone who works with Eminem, I can tell you that’s bullshit. Eminem is still signed with Aftermath/Interscope.
I’m just playing. Why would the most popular rapper in the world, especially Eminem, randomly go and sign with YMCA Records?! HAHA!! He’s been with Aftermath/Interscope his whole career! He’s got the best producer of all time (Besides Premo) behind him! Eminem could drop an album with just one long track of him taking a shit, and it would still sell more than Lil Wayne, and his fake ass clique. Sorry, I gotta go, I’m a dental assistant and I’m on break.
that rittz album is real hiphop crazy dope go support!
MY Queef oozes like Rick Ross’ Fart
I’ve been hearing one of them Kriss Kross niggas was found dead at this Atlanta home. Is this true???
yeah it looks like it. damn only 34 years old. loved them when i was like 8
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The Ghostface album is by far the best album on the list. Sad people don’t recognize true hip-hop anymore and keep buying shit instead.
TRUE
“Which I find strange because he is at least 38 years old”
No, but I know your 50.
27 but nice try
“actually section 80 was an independent album”
It still flopped.
It did well for an independent album.
Flop or not Section 80 is better than almost every hip-hop album that was released that year.
“Performing on SNL is not selling out”
Then what would you call it?
selling records
Expanding your fanbase. Getting your music out there to a wider audience who wouldnt be exposed to it normally.
Are you serious??? That’s genius!! It’s called, getting your music out there without having to sign to a Major label!! They’re playing the Majors like a violin right now! Macklemore also performed at the MTV Movie Awards! What other independent artist has done this??? Or is doing so now???
Nice try Chico, but artists only go on SNL to expand their fanbase. That’s the epitome of selling out.
How is expanding your fanbase selling out? That’s stupid. You’re basically calling every music artist a sell out. Think before you speak.
I thought the whole point of being an artist was to get fans, sell records and tour the globe. The more people you get listening the better chances you have of keeping your dream alive and going.
Is this guy retarded?? What artist DOESN’T want to gain a bigger audience and gain more fans?! What a dumbass. No, selling out is when you sign to a major label and change your artistic goals (influenced by the major label) in order to sell more records, and you conform to that and do it. That’s what selling out is.
R.I.P IVAN TURINA! 32 YEARS OLD, TO YOUNG TO DIE. GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYER AND FATHER.
GO BACK TO SWEDEN! YOUR COMMENT IS IRRELEVANT IN THE USA!
Macklemore, you are killing me!!!!! Who is secretly buying your fucking albums every week??? Why is it constantly at 25-30k each week???? Jesus!
His fans.
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YES@!!
“How is expanding your fanbase selling out?”
Kendrick shouldn’t need to go on SNL to broaden his fanbase. Maybe The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but SNL? You wouldn’t catch Rick Ross on there pretending to be friends with Alec Baldwin.
Kendrick is signed to Universal. ‘SNL’ is Comcast (NBC & Universal). They are using to venue to promote their popular artists, been doing it for YEARS. STFU bitch
You wont catch Rick Ross there because they would never ask him. Especially now that the world knows hes a rapist.
If Ross got asked he would be there in an instant
“I thought the whole point of being an artist was to get fans, sell records and tour the globe”
But when Ross does it, it somehow doesn’t count, but since it’s Kendrick then it’s ok to go on sell out shows like SNL?
You’re constantly contradicting yourself. If Ross would’ve performed at SNL, you’d be saying some different shit. SNL is far from a sell out show; many rappers, including the big names, have performed there.
“No, selling out is when you sign to a major label and change your artistic goals (influenced by the major label) in order to sell more records, and you conform to that and do it. That’s what selling out is”
Selling out is when you hawk products, or appear on shows that normally don’t cater to rappers. IMO, Kendrick is overexposing himself. I’m pretty sure the 11 pm late night crowd on TV isn’t DVR’ing SNL just because Kendrick Lamar is appearing. On the streets, they think he’s a clown anyway, so it’s either pad your wallet and lose your cred, or fall back and not let people know exactly who you’re just yet. That’s how you achieve longevity.
Look at this dude’s bitch ass opinion, can never prove a word he says, just spouting off at the mouth some inane rhetoric to make it seem like he knows what the deal is.
You don’t like him, don’t watch it. Other people exist in the world, they may be DVR-ing it because they don’t want to miss it. Who the f**k are YOU to say what other people are doing?
YOU BARELY KNOW WTF YOU TALK ABOUT. STFU CLOWN
The streets don’t think Kendrick’s a clown; they think he’s dope. How is Kendrick overexposing himself when he doesn’t even show up a lot on TV, radio, etc.
“Macklemore also performed at the MTV Movie Awards! What other independent artist has done this??? Or is doing so now???”
Who watches the MTV Movie Awards? lol Now if Drunkmore shows up at the Oscars then I’ll give him some props.
It’s Macklemore, not Drunkmore. He’s not a fucking drunk, you idiots.
“You don’t like him, don’t watch it. Other people exist in the world, they may be DVR-ing it because they don’t want to miss it”
I didn’t watch it. Why can you never debate me with fact? All this misplaced aggression is getting tiring. Go ask a stranger on the subway for a hug. Tell them anon said it was alright.
Bitch you have NEVER debated with facts. We’re STILL WAITING on how YOU KNOW Def Jam LOST MONEY off of Nas’ last album. We’re STILL WAITING on how you know what 50 thinks in his mind about Eminem. We’re STILL WAITING for YOUR FACTS. How do YOU know no one watched Kendrick? Did the viewership fall off for this specific broadcast?
YOU HAVE NONE. You want me to go away because I show the people that YOUR word is NOT bond. If YOUR word can’t be trusted, then WHO ARE YOU?
A BITCH, named QUOTE-MAN.
And SELLING OUT is going against your PRINCIPLES and compromising YOUR INTEGRITY to “make money”, NOT “Selling out is when you hawk products, or appear on shows that normally don’t cater to rappers”.
GTFOHWTBS you f**king clown.
Macklemore is the ultimate exploitation of hip hop.
Nope. That’d be Drake.
Jay
Wayne
Eminem
Nicki
Kanye
Run DMC
Snoop
Beastie Boys
Dre
Tupac
Missy
Diddy
Lauren
Busta
DMX
JA RULE
Outkast
Nelly
Eve
50 Cent
J-Kwon
Pharrell
Queen Latifah
Luda
Cee-Lo
TI
STFU YOU PIECE OF SH*T
And they were sell out’s too. I bet you got a charge typing that sorry response.
pretty much everyone but RICK ROSS
“We’re STILL WAITING on how YOU KNOW Def Jam LOST MONEY off of Nas’ last album. We’re STILL WAITING on how you know what 50 thinks in his mind about Eminem. We’re STILL WAITING for YOUR FACTS. How do YOU know no one watched Kendrick? Did the viewership fall off for this specific broadcast?”
I already proved it retard. Did you offer anything resembling a fact on how Def Jam made money? Come on gimp boy. Tell the truth. What did you come back with that could have made me see that Nas made them a profit? Answer… NOTHING! You’re all smoke and mirrors. Your the same loser who said 2 Chainz was broke despite the fact I posted an article about him talking about how lucrative his deal was. I own you sport. Just accept the fact your life is stuck to the bottom of my shoes and move on.
Nothing you say is fact, just assumptions.
“‘SNL’ is Comcast (NBC & Universal)”
Nobody cares idiot. The original point was SNL has been poorly rated for years. Of late they’ve been posting higher numbers, but it’s just so cliched for a rapper or even an actor to do that show. I don’t know anybody who still watches it.
How is it cliche? It’s part of marketing your shit.
“27 but nice try”
You act like your 10.
you act like you’re 11 but make references to things only a 40 year old would know about like miami vice and elvis to name a few
only 40 year olds know what elvis and miami vice is !!!! bahahahha! your just a dumb fuck that’s why you don’t know what those references are.. what a fuckin geek
i know what it is but only an old man would bring shit like that up for no reason on a hip-hop website
3 of the top 5 albums on the list this week aren’t even rap records. They all USED TO RAP, but apparently people like their new shit as evident by their sales.
I just got paid $6784 working off my laptop this month. And if you think that’s cool, my divorced friend has twin toddlers, made over 9k her first month and she convinced me to try. I can’t believe how easy it was once I tried it out. Here’s what I do Rich4.COM_
“you act like you’re 11 but make references to things only a 40 year old would know about like miami vice and elvis to name a few”
The funny thing is you’re the only one constantly bringing up Miami Vice. It was one comment, asshole lol You’re taking it all so seriously. It’s funny actually.
Go listen to Pitbull and latino rappers. Isn’t it past your bedtime old man?
Plus I see you didn’t respond to my direct challenge to show me how Def Jam made money off LIG. You can always pause Jersey Shore and give your right hand a break while you try and back your claims up. Show and prove Macklemore/Kendrick stan.
I know its hard to believe but there are a lot of anonymous posters that hate you. That wasnt me arguing about LIG. I was out all day and came back to see you arguing some irrelevant bullshit about SNL and Def Jam recouping off Nas last album
What do you have against Kendrick, Macklemore, and Nas?
all you people that comment on this site are giant nerds. especially on the weekly album sales. it’s funny how you all hate on all these rappers saying they flopped and shit when your all just untalented geeks that have never touched a vagina sitting on your mom’s macbooks. so very very sad
You’re basically describing yourself here.
Where are Justin’s numbers??!?! Come on DX!
hes sold 75,525
not sure what the total is but hes probably close to 2 million
Disgusting numbers from Snoop Dogg oh i mean Lion
“know its hard to believe but there are a lot of anonymous posters that hate you”
I don’t care who it was, but what I find strange is if you hadn’t made that statement, then why respond now trying to explain yourself?
because you were acting like it was me with the jersey shore reference from like 2 months ago
“Go listen to Pitbull and latino rappers”
I think I will. Want me to burn you a disc?
“only 40 year olds know what elvis and miami vice is !!!! bahahahha”
But you and the other loser are the only one’s constantly bringing those up, so in reality you’re laughing at yourself. The power I have over you nerds is legendary. I could type any artist’s name or TV show and you’d probably drool all over your keyboard in anticipation of trying to guess my age. It’s very sad how you trolls operate.
you keep making yourself look stupid. the guy who you quoted was being sarcastic and was in agreeance with you. nice one champ
No my friend. You take the cake on that one every day you decide to wake up and post. Or does Ross take the cake? That’s a tough one.