For many rappers, serving a bid in the bing has often proved to be a key vantage point with regards to selling records. And with his most recent effort I Am Not a Human Being topping Billboard’s charts, Young Money megastar Lil Wayne is no exception. Now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Weezy F. Baby is the first artist in over 15 years to have an album reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart – a feat that was last accomplished by 2Pac.
I Am Not A Human Being dropped this past September 27 in a digital only format, garnering 110,000 downloads. Yet it wasn’t until the CD version of the album hit shelves on October 12 that Wayne was able to grasp the number one spot on the Billboard 200. It has since gone on to sell 324,000 units as of October 24. Like Wayne, 2Pac enjoyed enormous amounts of success while behind bars, with his 1995 album Me Against the World spending four weeks at number one and selling 1.5 million copies upon its release.
As DX reported this weekend, although Lil Wayne is scheduled to be released this Thursday after 8 months in Riker’s Island for a gun charge, the New Orleans emcee will be heading back to court this Friday. DX will keep you updated as more details about Weezy’s release come to light.
From solitary!!!
From solitary and without much promotion.
2 albums in 2010 without releasing a real rap album so the fans are still hungry.
Both will probably go gold too.
Wayne SUCKS who gives a fuck .. how u gonna compare him to 2pac?? pac sold way more than waynes ass but most importantly came out with classic material an one of the best albums of all time. what did wayne come out with? … Trash
why dx post this shit four times?
Solitary confinement my dick. This bitch should not be in the same sentence as the G.O.A.T. “Picked up the mic I wanna be like Pac” Yeah, still not Pac to me. Number 1 in a sea of bums ain’t shit. Number 1 in an era of the greatest MCs to ever wreck shit, untouchable.
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This what promotional hype and marketing machine will do to you. Nothing to do with music quality, at all, so nothing to get excited about for us (except maybe record company plants, who will undoubtedly wank off to this news and fill the comments section with promotional paid-fanboy garbage).
HIP HOP DX STOP KISSING THE CORPORATION ASS YOUR A BUNCH A SELLOUTS.
THE MUSIC 2PAC RELEASED WHILE IN JAIL WAS WORTH TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE IT WAS POETRY FROM A LOST YOUNG MAN.
LIL WAYNE IS A SELLOUT PIECE OF SHIT AND THAT ALBUM HE CAME
yeah but wayne’s work will be here today forgotten tomorrow. 2pac made poetry and to tell people how lost he was. wayne is just another rapper nobody will remember
hey hip hop dx stop kissing the corporations ass.
why is 2pac so highly regarded. He was a rapist and a thug. His music was like him, bipolar! I’m just saying
well the only other rapper that keeps going to jail is t.i and its not like hes gonna put put a number record now a days.
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i’m offended by this very article. how can you have the audacity to compare lil wayne to 2pac? it’s inconceivable. 2pac made real music with real meaning and real issues that affect real people. this fucking faggot wayne makes “music” for little girls to have pillow fights to at slumber parties. lil wayne is a faggot piece of shit who dumb enough to shoot himself in the chest as kid (too bad he survived) and used that GODDAMN auto tune! he cant rap, his lyrics dont make any fuckin sense whatsoever and thinks that greatness is achieved by appearing on every song that’s recorded. fuck him
2pac made the exact same music. Minus the auto tune! Well(California Love) had auto tune, but I digress!
Thats the most retarded statement of all time. How do you figure Tupac and lil wayne make the same music? Tupac was on some revolutionary shit his whole career. Lil Wayne is only about his money, drugs and money.
Tupac talked about money, drugs, women etc. Throw in some revolutionary bull hear and there and it’s basically the same music. Seriously!
2pac and wayne made the same music? are you fuckin serious?! 2pac was multifaceted which is more than i can say for little gayne
multifaceted..how??
are you serious? how fucking old are you? have you actually heard tupac’s music at some point in your life? this is how things should be: 2pac should be alive makin REAL music like he has since day one. lil wayne should be shot fuckin dead & have his goddamn lungs fuckin removed & ultimately die of complications stemming from gunshot wounds. how can you compare wayne to 2pac and keep a straight face?? how the fuck can you even mention the 2 names in the same sentence?
Honestly, I’m probably older than you. However, my age is irrelevant. The truth is, 2pac made the same gangsta garbage that Lil Wayne makes today. I wish people would stop trying to make 2pac bigger than what he was. If he were still alive, he would probably be irrelevant. I’m just saying!
what 2pac songs were you listening to? 14 years after he passed, he’s a legend and lil wayne could never match his status on any level in his fuckin life. gayne & niggaz like him are the reason why the words “hip-hop is dead” have surfaced.
does dis mean you have to go to jail and do an album b4 so u can sell like 2pac while u in jail?..then how come alot aint doin it?….
wut a diss.
compare garbage music to originality music??
lil waynes garbage
t’s just a shame how artists are getting away with saying anything now a days. Don’t get me wrong Wayne has made hot songs and albums but all his resent work is trash. If we keep supporting his garbage that’s all he’ll make but if we don’t support it he’ll be forced to push himself creatively and make better music.
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2pac Is Number 1
who cares about this bullshit. Is this news???
for all saying that lil wayne and tupac made the same type of music. I have never seen lil wayne make any records that really meant anything like the “My Block Remix”,Brenda’s Got A baby,Dear Mama,or Keep Ya Head Up…what song of substance has Lil Wayne ever made???…he says lines talking about how he has so many toilets in his crib that he can shit all day..Lol…really my dudes??..
So b/c 2pac made an occasional song with a little meaning, that negates all the hundreds of other songs talking about drugs, money, bitches, guns, the ghetto,etc.
Hell Lil Wayne had some type of emotional song on every album.
Not a Wayne fan but it’s the same formula!
Just saying!
Wow they are just trying to compare wayne to pac.Wayne will never have shit on pac.Who writes these instigating ass articles?
you can add T.I. as rapper #3 since No Mercy is obvioussssly gonna hit the charts at number 1 too.
Fuck that last wayne album was bad, awful, and basically embarassing
i don’t give a fuck bout lil gayne’z gay porn album goin numbah 1. 2gay wasn’t shit either. they’ll neva reach 11 numbah 1 albumz like jay-z! did.
gay-z will get ether regardless…..
remember Em murder him on his on track..so thank him for dat one track.
nope. got it all wrong faggot. feminem destroyed himself on renegade. jay! saved dat song from feminem’z horrible versez. wat da fuck wuz feminem talkin bout in renegade n-e-way? you fuckin do gooderz, 2 bad u couldn’t do good at marriage? jesuz christ king of da later day saintz? easy az cake, simple az wistlin dixie? go to war wit da mormonz? FUCK OUTTA HERE! nothin but jibberin bullshit! jay-z! came wit da real lyricz from da heart. go suck feminem’z cock u pussy.
look AT ALL THE HATERS…..WESTCOAST FAGGOTS THATS ALL THIS IS..WEEZY AND THE WHOLE SOUTH HAS BEEN SHITTIN ON EVERYBODY ELSE… NEED TO STEP UP A COUPLE OF LEVELS……AND UR BITCHES LIKE US!1
hahaha @ MANDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY… U STUPID FUCK … Em wrote jays verse on the renegade .. get your hiphop right retard .. and Em murderd that
wow, wut da fuck iz wrong wit u niggaz? didn’t jay-z! repetedly say dat he wrote all of HIZ lyricz 2 da blueprint? feminem didn’t do shit to jay-z!’z versez. jay!’z versez were all jay! feminem’z versez were all bullshit! listen 2 wut jay! iz sayin on his versez and listen good and ull see y jay! killed feminem on dat song. if u don’t then i feel sorry 4 ur life faggot.
jay-z! iz da greatest of all time. fuck haterz and fuck all feminem, lil gayne and 2gay dickridaz. it’z mandddyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up in diz bitch!
mandy go suck a dick u busted down hoodrat!
an the album goes hard
this article never said he was like pac an you dumb fucks no that..
its just music damn
don’t ever fuckin compare i am not human to me against the world, me against the world went 3x platinum, i am not human aint even fucking strike gold…gtFoh with dis shit!
no it didnt you fuckin liar lmao. that album didnt go 3x plat. you rewriting history now? that album went double plat and thats it.
@really..and im just sayin STFU, u sound like a str8 bitch
in all respects all bullshit aside, this is blasphemy just pure blasphemy. its fuckin wrong. if you weren’t in at least middle school when the ‘pac debut 2pacalypse Now dropped, you have no opinion. actually i’ll drop that down, you have had to at least been in middle school when the wayne debut dropped. that prolly changes nothing. yo do any of you fags know the first album of you messiah? without a wikipedia search? probably none. god awful state we in in hip hop nowadays