In an interview with Washington, D.C. radio station 93.9 The Fam In the Morning, Kevin Gates alleges that a woman from Apple told him that Islah outsold Rihanna’s ANTI and was actually #1.
Gates released Islah in January and sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week.
ANTI was also released that same week and it is being alleged that a woman at Apple told the Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper that Rihanna‘s album was not truly #1 since Samsung bought a million copies.
“Samsung paid for Rihanna’s CDs and that’s not fair, so you’re really #1,” Kevin says. “This what that lady [at Apple] said.”
The million ANTI copies Samsung purchased was given free to fans exclusively through TIDAL whether they were a subscriber or not after her project was leaked on the Internet.
ANTI was also made available for purchase through iTunes. Rihanna sat at the #1 spot on the iTunes chart after fans bought her album.
Kevin Gates was bumped down to #2.
Additionally, ANTI entered the Billboard’s Top 200 chart at #27 and was certified platinum by the RIAA since Samsung bought 1 million copies of the project.
However, Billboard did not count those numbers and reported ANTI’s sales as 15,896 album equivalent units sold, 460 album sales and more than 4 million streams. ANTI physical CDs went up for sale the following week.
Elsewhere in the interview, the “2 Phones” rapper addresses his statements agreeing with Stacy Dash on the Black Lives Matters movement.
He detailed his own experiences with police brutality, which include being maced and sustaining two black eyes and cracked ribs, among other injuries.
“I have more of a right to be upset than the lady who it never happened to,” Kevin says of 106 KMEL’s Shay Diddy, who conducted the interview that caused the Black Lives Matters backlash.
The “Really Really” rapper asserts that he didn’t mean for it to mean he does not care about his own people.
The full interview with Kevin Gates on 93.9 The Fam In the Morning is as follows:
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I want to suck his big D**K he so handsome
He garbage. Plus he gotta do/say anything to make that money back them white people invested him wit ha fr for real
Kevin gates is better than 2pac
Negative
Good god, what is wrong with you?
15k for Rihanna thats a flop. NOBODY wants to hear her screaming-yelling disguised as “singing”, she can’t sing and that’s that.
Really Really,,,,, this guy is sad
This is that moron who fucked his cousin, what a dirty nagger.
I bet gates asked apple bitch to at her booty
This dude is annoying, weird, creepy, and attention seeking. He needs to stfu forever.
He must seek attention to sell records….
Who is this “lady?” Can we verify your source? No? Okay, you BS’ing…
another weird overrated rapper with no talent..
kevin gates is trash….next….
@Tru Rihanna can sing alike others like him, and this n***a stil say she said, Anti is no.1 he is been defeated he must accept that.
Look at Rihanna fans in here going nuts! Rihanna sucks and she aint sell nun but 15k, you haters! Facts are Facts and Kevin is #2, hate all you want! Rihanna cant sing anyway.
It’s funny to find this article years after the fact and see a comment as stupid as this. The 15K represented 20 minutes of sales after the 1.4 million giveaway to fans who waited 4 years for a new album… 20 minutes… That was all the was counted by Billboard for that tracking week. Her first full tracking week where she jumped to #1 from #27, keeping Kevin Gates at #2 for his debut had 166,000 equivalent album units, 124,000 of which were pure sales for the album.
2 years later and counting it went back to #1 for a second week in April of 2016, earned her over 25 million in certified record sales in the US alone, was the fourth best performing album of the year, and is the 38th best performing album by a female artist ever in the US. It had 8 Grammy nominations and not one person other than you didn’t praise her vocal work on the tracks.
You were clearly a really stupid black guy showing solidarity with another piece of Black trash who kicks women and goes to jail for it. You’re probably in jail now yourself.
He needs more people to confirm that… he didn’t even give a name.
He’s right. Anti sales doesn’t count becouse of Samsung deal.
Kevin gates is good but anti album was leak way earlier and the lady over at Apple isn’t mentioning that either is she ..but both of there albums are good
that pic lol lmao
I hate when people can’t accept defeat gracefully. He sounds salty as hell that he is not #1. The disappointing thing is he then resorts to the he say she say messy behaviour. But some people like that mess and would rather speculate and believe the lie because the truth is too simple. I say bring the woman from Apple, bring the evidence. Back up your words and don’t just tto a rumour to make you look good and the other person look bad and extra stupid.. VERY unprofessional. Then again ….. let the stats and truth prevail.
Yet his album is not even talking about his album. Just speculation of sales!!!!
The hip hop community not even given insight on his album!!! Sorry for the typo!!!