J. Cole may not like first week sales reports but they are in regarding this much-discussed week in Hip Hop. Billboard has released a new report featuring projections for this week, placing Kanye West at the top of the list.
According to the report, Kanye West’s Yeezus will lead the way with 360,000-380,000 copies sold. As expected by many who projected earlier this month, J. Cole’s Born Sinner follows with 150,000-200,000. Mac Miller trails with his latest offering, Watching Movies with the Sound Off, coming in third with approximately 100,000 copies sold.
J. Cole recently said he was not fond of first week sales reports. Via Twitter, the rapper said that they are ruining Hip Hop.
Kanye and Cole will likely have two Rap albums sell over 100,000 copies in the same week, a feat last reached by Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday and Kanye’s own, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in November 2010. If Cole, West and Miller all reach that milestone, it will be the first time three Rap albums sold over 100,000 copies in the same week since 2006, when Jay-Z (Kingdome Come), Snoop Dogg (Tha Blue Carpet Treatment) and Tupac (Pac’s Life) did so.
UPDATE: Billboard’s sources add that J. Cole’s Born Sinner “should sell 270,000 to 290,000—with 300,000 easily in reach.”
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Cole is mad cause deep down he was sure to sell more than KAnye. Keep on grindin Cole, you’ll need some more years to have a chance at achieving that and a dope ass album which you don’t have yet.
This article is extremely inaccurate….reports say cole did 270K to 310K not 150K…..get your numbers straight before undermining the body of work that Born Sinner was and disrespecting it. I think Cole is closer to Kanye then this as some say he is within 20K.
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2013/06/yeezus-and-born-sinner-first-week-sales
Think Billboard is a pretty accurate source to quote, Relax fam, the numbers will come out and you will see the truth
KANYE ALBUM IS GOOD ITS DIFFRENT THO BUT I LIKE IT.
KANYES ALBUM AINT EVEN HIPHOP! FUCK THAT DUBSTEP/80’sELECTRO SHIT.. THIS DUDE IS TRYING TO HARD TO SOUND LIKE SOMETHING NEW WHEN IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE DRE BACK IN THE WORLD WRECKIN CRU DAYS.
And what exactly does hip hop sound like then?? The genre was created from sampling different styles, influences, and genres… This album is as hip hop as it gets..
I agree with yeaaahh. Anonymous, you’re an idiot!
Anonymous:
KANYES ALBUM AINT EVEN HIPHOP! FUCK THAT DUBSTEP/80’sELECTRO SHIT.. THIS DUDE IS TRYING TO HARD TO SOUND LIKE SOMETHING NEW WHEN IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE DRE BACK IN THE WORLD WRECKIN CRU DAYS.
Yes, you are definitely an idiot!
LOL @ deeznuts
yeaahh and haha you backpackers need to fall back. I’m guessin you are under 24… Ye’s album IS NOT HIP HOP. Its the worst album I’ve ever heard.
FIRST OFF YOU LIL NIGGAS DONT KNOW WHAT REAL HIPHOP IS..U THINK WAYNE TYGA AND THIS SHIT IS HOPHOP…WELL IT AINT. SO U CALL NELLYS COUNTRY COLABOS HIPHOP? GTFOH! HIPHOP USE TO BE ABOUT BEING ORIGINAL AND NOT TRYING TO DO WHAT THE OTHER GUY IS DOING. IT AINT LIKE THAT ANY MORE. WHAT IS THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN HIPHOP OR POP? HIPHOP IS NO LONGER STREET ITS AN INDUSTRY RUNNED GENRE.
OH YEAH KANYES LAME AS ALBUM IS ONLY 10 TRACKS…LAME!
Of course Ye gonna outsell Cole. checkout thegrandreport, they have some cool entertainment news on there too
born sinner… just lol
Those are bullshit projections from an unreliable source. Yeezus will be lucky to do 150k and instead sell more like 100k. Born Sinner would sell up to 75k, and mac miller will sell 200k. I talked to billboard directly and that’s what they said.
you NEED to be talking to a pychiatrist
Im really an accountant for ymcmb.I did have the conversation with riaa.
You need a reality check
Im a fucking accountant for ymcmb. Yeezus is struggling.
Everything you say is a lie. What Billboard said in that article is accurate.
J. Cole never had a chance of beating Kanye, let’s be real. J. Cole is a rapper, Kanye is a celebrity. The courage would never be equal
nobody was expecting j cole to beat kanye.. why post an obvious comment?..
Mac deserves way more sales than he’s getting. He fuckin’ WON this week.
andres vazquez is an idiot. born sinner is projected to sell between 270-300k heres the link from yesterday not the one you have from june 14th. do your research next time
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1567378/hip-hop-super-tuesday-kanye-west-leads-j-cole-gets-bigger
J Cole is actually closer to 300k opening week.
Here’s the link for updated sales projections.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1567378/hip-hop-super-tuesday-kanye-west-leads-j-cole-gets-bigger
mac miller music suck dick why is even pushing 100k
Who cares about the sales at this point. Can we just enjoy the three dope ass hip-hop albums without making a contest out of it?
there is nothing dope about Yeezus homey
^ there is nothing dope about born sinner nigga
J Cole should catch him the 2nd week. No one will be buying that wack ass Ye album next week
so yeezus is going to do less numbers first week then IANAHB2? yeezy feel off! and cole and mac miller aint even gonna do weezy numbers combined. kanye might sell more then waayne next week. but in 2 weeks he will be outselling kanye like he outsells kendrick. haha. ya bish? ya you bish. ya damn bish!!!
i think you’re right! good point
ill cosign fresh and cherry
gonna be close but i think wayne can pull off some magic. his performance on jimmy kimmel was unreal!
cosign
Ye fell off wayne is trash the YMCMB fan Dickriders will buy any trash album he put out
i might get some hate for this. but i feel like wayne will sell strong all year. could have top album of year too
get em fresh!
Lil Wayne Sold 217,000 copies first week. West will crush that number even he had no airplay prior to the album drop.
Please inform yourself before you comment.
lol, this nigga still co-signing himself..
LOOK DAMNMIT I’M SICK OF THE CRY BABY BITCHASS BULLSHIT Y’ALL WE ALL KNOW COLE LIKELY WON’T OUTSELL KANYE BUT HE WILL DEFINITELY WITHOUT DOUBT OUTSELL HIS DEBUT ALBUM COLE WORLD THE SIDELINE STORY WHICH DID 218K THE FIRST WEEK WELL THIS TIME THE 1 AND THE 8 CAN SWITCH SPOTS THIS TIME 281K FOR BORN SINNER NEXT WEEK BUT IT’S LIKELY BORN SINNER COULD HIT 312K NEXT WEEK EITHER WAY COLE GOING TO SELL MORE THAN LAST TIME WETHER Y’ALL LIKE IT OR HATE SO THE BEST THING ALL CAN IS IF U FEELING BORN SINNER U LIKE IT BUY THEM COPIES AND BUY EM ALL IF U CAN AFFORD IT BUT IF U AIN’T DOWN WIT IT DON’T PURCHASE IT STOP WITH ALL THIS TALK ABOUT HIM FLOPPING AND NOT SELLING WELL AND SHIT BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY YOUR OPINION DON’T COUNT CAUSE PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT J.COLE HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN POWER TO THE PEOPLE, SHIT J.COLE’S POWER TRIP SINGLE ALREADY CERTIFIED GOLD THE WHOLE ALBUM WILL SUFFER THE SAME FATE END OF STORY Y’ALL ALREADY KNOW BUT SHOT OUT TO THOSE WHO HAVE BROUGHT COPIES OF BORN SINNER CONTINUE THE SUPPORT FOR J.COLE HE’S THE MAN THOSE WHO DISAGREE WE DON’T CARE WHAT U THINK IT’S A COLE SUMMER AFTERALL LOL BITCHESS!!!!!!!!!!
So Ye doing 380k in the first week with no single on the radio lol cole ass is upset talm bout fucking up hiphop lol nobody is its just you not up there with Ye yet prolly two more albums and yeah… but still
All these projections are lies I work at billboard and the sales projections are
1. Mac Miller – 500k
2. J Cole – 300 k
3. Gay Fish – 350 K (P.S. he bought 300 k albums with his own money)
For further details contact me – Albert The Great aka The biggest Hip Hop Head aka your most reliable source.
They all suck dick… Like your mom hahahaha!
I know J Cole talking about going up against Kanye was a silly, crazy attempt to get more publicity for his album, but damn, dude might actually have been secretly hoping he pulled a rabbit out the hat and that was not so crazy in retrospect. 260-270 is very strong and KW looks to be only beating him about 90k units. If they had actually gone the extra mile of promoting the album plus trying to cross him over, he could have actually beat KW. That said, he had to come out with yet another dumb rapper comment. How are first week projections messing up hip hop? What’s being messed up is the young black youth as Tupac would say, with all you rappers cussing on Twitter and on your albums like its no thing, promoting drug use and all that other nonsense.
To Albert the Great, you must be just sorting mail at BB if you do in fact work there. BB does not create the projections. They go on actual Soundscan sales for the first couple days or however they do it and then project seven days out.
I have not heard any singles on the radio yet from Yeezus. This album might barely go platinum. Usually, dude has like four singles per album. He needs to study his trends. His last album did not yield much in the way of singles either. Power fell off real quick and was not followed by any other songs.
yeezus is some 10 track bullshit
Honestly, I felt the exact the same way but i gave it another listen and it grew on me and now I think its a classic. Just give it another listen.
I heard some of the songs on there I didn’t even want to to buy the album not Kanye West’s work if I had to rate it i would give it 3/10
everyone is reading j. cole’s tweet wrong… he wrote the projections are fucking up hip hop meaning that he’s fucking up the expected norm because of how close he is and he’s making an impact on hip hop. he never expected to outsell kanye, but by being so close he’s fucking up everyone else’s expectations
I still dont understand why so many people even RESPECT Kanye to buy his album. He is a horrible person.
So are 85% of these entertainers but we don’t look to them as role models so I suggest you don’t either.
Fuck the sales, Born Sinner is more entertaining with better beats. Sales don’t mean shit if you’re still a wack nigga on tour performing, doing shows.
HELL NO the beats werent better than Yeezus
J Cole’s beats were actually hip hop beats, we can’t say that about Kanye’s
Regardless the beats weren’t better then Yeezus beats.
Do the delusional Cole fans really want to compare each artist’s 2nd album?
It’s amazing how much saying you’re going to drop the same day as Kanye helps your buzz. No one was checking for J Cole before he said that. His articles on here had 15-20 comments max. His singles had no buzz, no one was talking about this dude at all…People were still focused on Kendrick. Then all of a sudden he says he wants to go against Kanye and look how much he sells. 50 Cent was in a similar situation, but remember how much his sales declined on his follow up album (Went from selling 700,000 first week to 100,000) Unless J Cole can get lucky enough do a deal like Jay-Z or leech off a bigger artist for the next album, I don’t see him moving units again. His next album will most likely sell under 100,000 units. I’m not impressed.
“It’s amazing how much saying you’re going to drop the same day as Kanye helps your buzz. No one was checking for J Cole before he said that”
speak for yourself. J Cole i am sure a lot of people were checking for Cole before that. Just cuz you dont like J Cole doesnt mean he wont sell.
hahaha u jealous of cole. its called business ethic fool, if born sinner came out later it wouldnt have sold this much. also, J cole was executive producer on his two albums, it means he has a lot of brains in his head unlike artists like chief keef who gave all his money to jim iodine and kanye who had rick rubin being executive producer just for the production he did.
on top of what ^^^ said, he also produces his whole album. Which means instead of paying other people to make beats, he prolly gets to keep that money instead of paying it out.
and he makes pretty good beats too. and born sinner was released under his dreamville label too.
Ok Cole! NIgga gon be gold in 2 weeks!
Album definitely that good too
Cole doing what he has to. I am not sure the Release date had much of a bearing on his sales. I was waiting for the album patiently, copped 2 copies and would have done so next week. Ye album wasn’t to my liking. I cant call it garbage, but after all the day 1 spins I gave it, I doubt I will listen to it again.
LOL of course kanye would win his been in the game much longer is more mainstream 70% of his fan base are white people and he has the kardashians tweeting and promoting his album SMH
numbers mean nothin most kanye his fans wear american eagle
“If Cole, West and Miller all reach that milestone, it will be the first time three Rap albums sold over 100,000 copies in the same week since 2006, ” … if that happens no one cares about hip hop
kanyes was whack as fuck
coles was alright but still a disappointment
and i dont listen mac miller
2pac – untouchable
hip hop died in 2006
u bein’ nice… it died waaaay before then
J Cole is nice on the mic, makes aight beats, but he lacks the “IT” factor. He will probably never be a superstar, but he should have a long career if he remains consistent….the nigga just bores the hell outta me personally…seems like a coot cat tho….
who cares? he has a hardcore fan base. his records do well although he never does pop singles like other rappers.
you mean he has no “it” factor as in no GIMMICK or no huge ego. I’m glad Cole isn’t like that. He keeps it real on the mic and isn’t fake.
Exactly how I feel about that dude, he’s nice but no X-factor, like Curren$y
who’s currency
Still rather listen to J cole then these dead ass comments
Hey, dentaldambitch. Get a life and stop trolling HipHopDX. Nobody believes your lies. Billboard and HitsDailyDouble said that Yeezus will do 375-400k 1st week, Born Sinner will do 290-300k 1st week, and WMWTSO will do 90-100k 1st week. Bitch.
It’s dental dam BOY. Im not trolling, you are bitch. I talked to RIAA and they told me the real predictions of 100k for yeezus.
Nope. You’re the troll. Your statement is full of shit. You never talked to anyone at RIAA, who doesn’t do any sales projections. Even if you did talk to them and they told you that, they’re lying and are %100 inaccurate.
Why should we believe you, dentladambitch? Everything you post is a lie.
You’re the troll here. RIAA helps with billboard calculating the prediction. This week there has been a mixup. The copies meant for IANAHB2 and Hotel California were mistakingly assigned to Yeezus and Born Sinner.
dentaldamboy is a paid commenter, never, ever, click reply to one of his comments
Stay making up lies, bitch ass troll.
If Born Sinner is going to sell more than Yeezus, it’s Kanye’s own fault
But it won’t so whose fault is it that Yeezus sold more with no video or single released officially?
People have high expectations for J Cole, like he’s the next Nas, let the boy grow and mature please
Cole is 28 dude…
Nas is gay and wack. I guess gay cole might just be the next nas with his boring music and dumb fans. he is not gay enough to be like nas yet he got work to do. got to step his gay levels up to reach nas homo pink suit levels.
^^ lame ass nigga..
J Cole will have a Drake audience if he starts singing with autotune like Drake, that’s all what’s missing
J Cole’s album is actually a hiphop album with hip hop beats and real rhymes, unlike Yeezus with half the album with autotune and non-hiphop beats, Bound 2 is the only song where he rapped… other songs he only rapped 1 verse…
J. Cole gonna sell almost 300k..this nigga got fans, why he mad for ?
not necessarily, yeezy haters most likely lol.
What other genre focuses on record sales as much as hip-hop?
Yeezus will go gold before INAHB2.
Born Sinner>Yeezus>Watching Movies with the Sound Off
who cares these 3 albums are all garbage. Hiphop in the 80 and 90 was 10 times better then this crap today
I picked up all 3, personally I like them all the same and it really depends on your own interpretation
I would just like to comment on one thing here: Rolling Stone and some of the other various magazines have given incredible rap albums pretty average ratings right away. They then go back 10 years later and realize how fckin wrong they were, and give the albums what they deserve. They do everything for shock value. If people like something, then they wont. Its the same for a lot of movie critics. They wanted to be sophisticated and different.
Dr Dre’s 2001-one of the best albums ever made, and a classic in every sense of the word- received 4 out of 5 stars from Rolling Stone.
Biggies life after Death received 3 and a half out of 5 stars.
Stillmatic received 3 out of 5 stars.
Now I dont know about you hip hop fans, but to me, those are three of the top 15 or so rap albums ever made. Those define classics. You can play them 1,000 times and still ride with them no matter what.
For this reason, I take everything that rolling stone and the others say with a grain of salt. They clearly dont know what a good rap album is.
I’m not gonna front. I was one of those who talked trash about Born Sinner as I was not that impressed the first time I listened to it. But after a few listens I can say this album is almost as good as FNL. A definite contender for album of the year. Yeezus is still trash though.
damn, yeezus going strong. 370k!! thats highest 1st week sales on 2013
You’re missing Timberlake’s 20/20. That sold almost a million opening weekend
chris etrata you a bitch. FACT!
chris is right though, but for hip hop, kanye’s got the highest.. that is until eminem releases his album..
Lol no one is mentioning mac miller in the comments.. personally i’ve heard of his name few times and i’m sure he did 1 or 2 episodes of punked i think which were crap.. never heard a single song from him tho. Is he worth looking up?
People like him for the same reason people like MGK..hip hop community doesn’t care about these rappers.
Mac Miller sounds nothing like MGK tho. Mac is a college pop rapper-turned-weird underground artistic rapper. If you like Earl Sweatshirt type shit you’ll maybe like him.
Billboard, SoundScan, RIAA, Radio countdowns, T.V. countdowns all will be obsolete soon. Cole is right though projections are fucking up the industry.
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Yeezus: album of the year at the grammys thois album will move like 10 million by the end of 2013.
i don’t think it will sell that much, but it will win some grammys..
FUCK HIPHOP IM GIVIN IT UP! 90% OF TODAYS HIPHOP IS TRASH! KANYE IS TRASH! NOT A MAC MILLER FAN BUT DUDE HAS A WAY BETTER FLOW AND MORE TO SAY THAN KANYE. ALL U KANYE DICKRIDERS CAN CHOKE ON A DICK…I GAVE UP RADIO NOW HIPHOP…SO LONG IM GOING BACK TO SOME OLDIES GANGSTA SHIT!
Peace and take French Montana with you 🙂
haha this shit messed up yeezus pure shit
No video…No radio single..No problem for the Great Yeezus LMAO
number #1 …….chi-town all day yeezy season
On the real, there are a lot of cynical assholes that comment on this site lol Ya’ll need some Lil B in your life and get positive. I hope all 3 of these guys sell over 100k. Yeezy’s album is good. Cole’s album is good. Mac’s album is good. Why can’t ya’ll just like all 3?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pv7GZN_sPM
360-380k with no single and no promotion? Wow. Hate all you want…Kanye is pretty much a genius.
He is the G.O.O.T. (Greatest Of Our Time)
cosign.
No. People are just that nave.
truth be spoken
mac miller stop rapping please your wack
numbers mean nothing
Sure especially if it isn’t your favorite rapper, right?
Just keep it funky and say they don’t mean everything but they def. mean something.
If they mean nothing why are they reported every week?
both these albums are trash dont waste your money or time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcOR2UyzPzM
incredible numbers for yeezus considering no radio singles and little promotion.. great numbers for cole showing that he’s not suffering the sophomore slump.. mac’s moving units too.. great for all of them and great for hip hop..
Real talk, glad to see some people are actually buying again. Hopefully leads to better music
^^^Co-Sign
What a positive conversation. Nice
This is bad for hip hop. Yeezus should have done Drake numbers based solely on Kanye’s track record. J. Cole will stall at gold (again), and MM will continue to meet his minimal expectations.
I didn’t know going gold was a bad thing. This isn’t bad for Hip Hop, because Hip Hop doesn’t evolve around your puny expectations.
Eff these albums its all Magna Carta Holy Grail
AND APPARENTLY…
the first single is produced by Swizz Beatz and it already leaked>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW8qFJItRwo
i dunno sounds real to me..
As an accountant for YMCMB I can confirm Jay Z does not want to go to war with YMCMB. Wayne already said that if Jay Z disses one more time, he will go Mel Gibson on him. The YMCMB army is built for war. Wayne a certified gangsta. He got 3 tear drops, did a bid on the island and all that. Wayne ethered rappers and even caused permanent damage to Dez Bryant’s knee. Jay is wack. All Wayne has to do is throw him a rock and Jay will fuck his life up again
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THEY EXPECTED YEEZUS TO SELL MORE.
J. COLE NEVER IMAGINED HE WOULD SELL THAT MUCH…PROBABLY WILL DELETE THOSE TWEETS ASAP!
I JUST FOUND OUT MAC MILLER IS STILL INDEPENDENT!!! THOSE ARE STILL GREAT NUMBERS FOR AN INDEPENDENT ARTIST.
Kanye is the best of all time! omg i love his shit soooooo much! go kanye go!!!!!!!
^ u hype
who really buys mac millers album? hipsters? jewish girls? i need to know, because nobody I know fuks with Mac, and I’m even from Pittsburgh.
first and foremost id like to say North West is a RETARTED name for a baby. Secondly, Kanye puts on the biggest tough guy act, but he would get smacked so hard in his fake ass jaw. Finally, you have to be thirsty as fk to wife Kim K because she has NO talent and got ran through by so many niggez. Fuck outta here Kan-gay West you little pssy.
applications for gossip columnist are that way —–>
You seem to have alot of hate for someone you don’t personally know and someone whos accomplish more than you would in two life times,, you should know your roll because if Kim Kardashian wanted to fuck you, you wouldn’t hink twice about it, unless your the Gay-fish by the way did you pay south park for stealing their idea, you wanna talk about NO talent you can’t even come up with your own diss..pathetic
I dont understand fans fascination with album sales. It really has nothing to do with you as a fan. I think people just need to feel like their part of the “in-crowd” or something.
For some it may be about feeling in the in crowd but i think for most it’s apart of the competitive spirit of rap. Kanye “vs.” J. Cole is like the Spurs vs. the Heat, you’ve got the season vet. who’s poised…as far as his music goes…versus the young talent still managing his hype and proving himself…granted Cole WILL accomplish that even if he doesn’t beat out Kanye, but what a statement that would be right? it’s all apart of the game
I agree with chewi28 but the competition should be about talent and less about numbers. The reason battles like Nas vs Jay, and LL vs Canibus, and Common vs Ice Cube were so great was because it was about who came with the best lyrics not who was most popular. When the music is more about talent and rapping ability instead of numbers and popularity we the fan get a better enjoyment out of it because we make the rappers prove to us that they are worthy.
Damn. Never though Cole would go up from his first, considering the buzz was major for his first album, and even though Born Sinner had buzz…..it didn’t seem as big. But 270-300K is really like 500-600K 10 years ago. Cole is here to stay.
Solid numbers for Mac too. Watching Movies… really wasn’t a bad album. It’s definitely a step in the right direction, and it’s a solid album. I found myself going through the whole album. Mac needs to get with a major label though. His first album and Macadelic produced some singles that charted, Frick Park Market/Party on 5th Ave/Loud but I don’t think anything on Watching Movies… is going to the radio. He should have pushed Watching Movies and Objects in the Mirror as his singles. Goosebumpz and SDS were bad choices.
Mac Miller should stay independant, what independant rapper has sold over 100,000 copies first week in a while? his first album sold around 140K – 150K, Mac miller is a successful independant artist
i agree with humza95
he gets 10x more money as independent artist than he would with major label
Yeah I just don’t know if he’ll continue to keep his buzz his whole career as an independent though. He went down from 144K to around 100K max now. So if this all stays the same, his next album may fall to 50-60K,, and than lower again on his 4th album. He’s only 21, I think he’ll sign a major label deal within a year.
If Blue Slide Park and Watching Movies were pushed by a major label like Def Jam or something, he may have done 150-200K first wee for both albums. But of course, he’d take less money home.
I just think if he wants to stay relevant for the next 5-10 years as a major hip hop artist, he’ll go with a label.
Kanye is at the top because of his illuminati music, j cole doesn’t fuck with that, he comes straight up son!
hahaaha, that illimunati shit is fuckin ignorant man..
First track on J Cole’s Album Villuminati but he don’t fuck with that…
Did you even listen to Villuminati orrrr are you just talking out your ass right now? I’m thinking the latter…
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He’s just saying that because he’s losing.
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I don’t understand any of you people right now, 1st of all Tupac is dead, quit worshipping him, he was good and all but get over it, 2nd, Tupac and Lil Wayne were bros, they made a song together they hung out so stop comparing, Tupac was good with the old shit Wayne is good with the new shit
Huh?
Fuckboy shut the fuck up! Nobody was talking about either one, GO KILL YOURSELF!!
Tupac died in 97. Him and Lil Wayne didn’t know each other you fucking idiot
He actually died in .96
those grammy’s are bought so i dont let it persuade me to buy albums… and just because kanye put a bunch of space sounds from draft punk, and been out longer doesnt mean he made a better album … he didnt even give u 5 good tracks out of a meer 10.. those beats are so distorted u cant get the point if any.. j cole hands down took this bout with fresh beats by timbo and lyrical flow to shit on the competition… they even turn’d rapper Logic into a fan
They still have to win the grammy. It’s no different than an actor getting a star on the Hollywood walk of fame, but having to buy the spot.
The Grammy’s lost me a lot when Wayne won Best Rap Album for Carter III. They lost me even more when Cole didn’t get a Best Rap Album nomination, yet Carter IV and Pink Friday did. And they lost me almost completely when Drake took home Best Rap Album over Nas and Roots, and when 2 Chainz was nominated.
They also lost me when Jay and Kanye won grammy’s for the average Watch the Throne album. That album was good production, with average flow and sub par lyrics. If you’re going to have crappy subject content, at least have some witty and complex rhymes, Kanye never has.
YEEZUS is complete garbage and the word is spreading…Kanye will take the #1 spot first week and then we can just sit back and watch it fall the fuck off the charts for good like the trash that it is…Hopefully Kanye will get back to making real music after this Yeezus bullshit…and this is coming from a fan…
A subpar fan at best!! this album was good top to bottom Kanye has always gone against the grain he’s not going to change now
Watch Macklemore get shunned from Best Rap Album nomination at the grammy’s. Even though his album is better than 95% of the crap that gets nominated. Macklemore isn’t an amazing lyricist, but guy always has a message and spits some real shit most the time. Even Thrift Shop has a message.
lol
he better not win no grammy
There’s a chance he will win at least one grammy.
I feel like the Grammy for Best Rap Album will be a race between Yeezus and GKMC.
And what message is that? That’s he cheap?
Nope. That there’s more to life than money, drugs, bitches, and swag.
Not win. Though I think he’ll take home Best New Artist. But The Heist deserves a nomination for Best Rap Album. It won’t and shouldn’t win, Kendrick’s should. But he deserves it. The Heist is different, but dope.
Possible nominees for the Best Rap Album Grammy:
Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City-Kendrick Lamar
Yeezus-Kanye West
The Heist-Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Born Sinner-J Cole
LongLiveA$AP-A$AP Rocky
Magna Carta Holy Grail-Jay Z
“And they lost me almost completely when Drake took home Best Rap Album over Nas and Roots”
They reward the most popular artists. That’s the whole idea, and something that has been going on for years.
Doesn’t mean it’s right.
“Doesn’t mean it’s right”
If LIG would have sold more I bet Nas would have walked away with the grammy.
Or Def Jam wanted their artists to win on merits and didn’t want to pay for the platinum package. I guess nobody remembers the Chris Brown situation where the guy from the Academy got fired, probably because if the truth leaked the show and institution would lose all credibility.
And I expect Macklemore & Lewis to win numerous awards, conceptual albums like that don’t surface very often.
Nas wasn’t anywhere near platinum though. No way the grammy committee was going to award an old rapper who can’t sell anymore an award for simply getting another album out.
Nas just released an album recently and it did good numbers so I dont know what the fuck you are talking about. Stop fucking hating
“Nope. That there’s more to life than money”
Which is ironic considering he’s making money hand over fist right now.
But he’s not bragging about it like many rappers.
Born Sinner is honestly one of the best albums I have heard in a long time. Kanye’s new album is a bunch of the most horrible things all stuffed in one. j cole will have the best cd of the year but he won’t win the award because maclemore is too popular to lose right now.
yeezy season hating ass niggas i aint even heard born sinner and i wont bitches!!!!
Y’all screw these haters down here Yeezus all day over born sinner, Kanye could make a j.cole album in like 2 days.
I people really think that Kanyes new album is geed then you are fucking delusional and need to get your ears fixed. That shit is hard to even listen to.