Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City has sold more than any album in one week this year.

[surv2syn]

I'm tired of you nikkas acting like dude laid back and let dre do the work, with these sideways ass compliments followed by backhanded insults

" yeah I'm rooting for him, but he's nothing special"

why are you paraphrasing and taking my comments out of context and got the nerve to put it in quotes?

you are clearly too emotional, what is your agenda? with the name callin and shut ups...etc?? wait...I know.

so Kendrick would move 240k without Dre endorsement? answer please.

Dre didnt find Em on a street corner either. Em was grinding too...had an album. I had it. I ordered Bad Meets Evil on Game Recordings when I worked at the record store.

Would Em be as big a star without Dre co-signing him? I cant say but would lean towards ..... no. Not acting like Dre did all the work...but his endorsement carries weight.

 

[45123]

Kanye remixed a chief keef song, does that mean he's a gangsta rapper and part of 300?

You associating tech with backpack is in fact totally inaccurate


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Not at all, that's a way different scenario
Kanye been doing that shyt for years, he was on his whole 'trap' steeze since 08 when he did those songs with Khaled & Jeezy

I'm not gonna argue with you over that term no more, its apparent you would refuse to acknowledge Tech N9ne as backpack even if he made a whole album with The Cool Kids and ran with that, but he rocks a doo-rag while recording his videos and aims an actual tech at the camera so that denounces the whole idea

Backpack rap is just underground or fringe mainstream rappers talking about everyday shyt they live or some government political other left field topics, basically music that deviates from mainstream hip-hop you hear on the radio, nothing more complex than that, it ain't all associated with nerdy rappers and cool calm mellow mixtapes with cartoons on the cover

 

[labelplant]

IIRC, Buckshot from Black Moon is the one started/popularized the term backpacker.

 

[SwagKingKong]

Love the album and glad it's selling. I haven't picked up my copy yet - but I will pick up a physical copy when I have the time.

I don't know why people start comparing the sales to college dropout, why the fukk does it matter anyway? both albums were successful, let's just leave it at that.

Graduation on the other hand, those sales are incredible and will probably never be topped again in hiphop music. He almost did a mill first week in 2007, that's amazing.

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

So Tech N9ne is a backpack rapper now?

You guys know nothing about Hip-Hop Tech being doing gangsta/horrorcore rap for years but just because he's independent he's a backpack rapper......

 

[hex]

Not at all, that's a way different scenario
Kanye been doing that shyt for years, he was on his whole 'trap' steeze since 08 when he did those songs with Khaled & Jeezy

I'm not gonna argue with you over that term no more, its apparent you would refuse to acknowledge Tech N9ne as backpack even if he made a whole album with The Cool Kids and ran with that, but he rocks a doo-rag while recording his videos and aims an actual tech at the camera so that denounces the whole idea

Backpack rap is just underground or fringe mainstream rappers talking about everyday shyt they live or some government political other left field topics, basically music that deviates from mainstream hip-hop you hear on the radio, nothing more complex than that, it ain't all associated with nerdy rappers and cool calm mellow mixtapes with cartoons on the cover

That has literally nothing to do with the term "backpack rap". Did you just start listening to rap recently?

IIRC, Buckshot from Black Moon is the one started/popularized the term backpacker.

If they weren't the first they were among the first.

Fred.

 

[45123]

That has literally nothing to do with the term "backpack rap". Did you just start listening to rap recently?



If they weren't the first they were among the first.

Fred.

Tell me then exactly, what the fukk is "backpack rap", cuz it seems like underground/independent, conscious, glitz and glamless, skateboarding, lyrical, alternative rappers are incorrect terms to describe it

 

[RTF]

Graduation was Kanyes 3rd album, and the whole first week sales war between him and 50 was manufactured by Def Jam and Interscope to sell more records...and that was 2007.

why do you think the state of hip hop album sales 5 years ago applies today?

College Dropout sold 441k in 2004

242k in 2012>>>>>>>>>>>>>>441k in 03.

College Dropout was a slow burner album. It ended up scanning over 3million. If GKMC does 1/6th of that i'll be surprised. I reckon GKMC will crawl to Gold.

 

[RTF]

First week numbers haven't dropped off as hard for hip-hop as total album sales. So 200k v. 400k isn't a good argument. Look at total sales v total sales.

Warren G's Regulate did 176,000 its opening week but did 2.8m overall. Jay's Vol. 2 did 460k first week in '98 (one of the peak years) and did 5million total. Hip-hop albums these days do well to x3 their first week sales.

It's because HYPE is so much greater now in hip-hop. A lot of the public know when an album is dropping if it matters to them. It was different in the past and it's different for pop/other genres. Bruno Mars did 100k first week and went platinum.

Time well tell if GKMC is a true commercial success.

 

[Busby]

First week numbers haven't dropped off as hard for hip-hop as total album sales. So 200k v. 400k isn't a good argument. Look at total sales v total sales.

Warren G's Regulate did 176,000 its opening week but did 2.8m overall. Jay's Vol. 2 did 460k first week in '98 (one of the peak years) and did 5million total. Hip-hop albums these days do well to x3 their first week sales.

It's because HYPE is so much greater now in hip-hop. A lot of the public know when an album is dropping if it matters to them. It was different in the past and it's different for pop/other genres. Bruno Mars did 100k first week and went platinum.

Time well tell if GKMC is a true commercial success.

OMG...can't u nikkas be happy for the nikka?

...U talking Warren G numbers breh..which was in the in the fukking 90's! When there was NO internet, and nikkas weren't bootlegging...

Goddamn...all u nikkas arguing about numbers are the SAME nikkas not buying the damn albums and then complain about why hip-hop don't sell...

 

[OGJOHNNY5]

Good for Kendrick, being a rookie outselling vets in the first week, it's a W for Hip Hop in general. Not much more to say..about any of that...

 

[hex]

First week numbers haven't dropped off as hard for hip-hop as total album sales. So 200k v. 400k isn't a good argument. Look at total sales v total sales.

Warren G's Regulate did 176,000 its opening week but did 2.8m overall. Jay's Vol. 2 did 460k first week in '98 (one of the peak years) and did 5million total. Hip-hop albums these days do well to x3 their first week sales.

It's because HYPE is so much greater now in hip-hop. A lot of the public know when an album is dropping if it matters to them. It was different in the past and it's different for pop/other genres. Bruno Mars did 100k first week and went platinum.

Time well tell if GKMC is a true commercial success.

You do know first week sales are included in total sales, right?

Fred.

 

[5n0man]

why are you paraphrasing and taking my comments out of context and got the nerve to put it in quotes?

you are clearly too emotional, what is your agenda? with the name callin and shut ups...etc?? wait...I know.

so Kendrick would move 240k without Dre endorsement? answer please.

Dre didnt find Em on a street corner either. Em was grinding too...had an album. I had it. I ordered Bad Meets Evil on Game Recordings when I worked at the record store.

Would Em be as big a star without Dre co-signing him? I cant say but would lean towards ..... no. Not acting like Dre did all the work...but his endorsement carries weight.

That quote wasn't directed to just you, it was to all these nikkas including you that pop up in these thread trying to downplay this man for no reason

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[5n0man]

Tell me then exactly, what the fukk is "backpack rap", cuz it seems like underground/independent, conscious, glitz and glamless, skateboarding, lyrical, alternative rappers are incorrect terms to describe it

And tech is none of those other than lyrical.

Stop it breh

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[5n0man]

Not at all, that's a way different scenario
Kanye been doing that shyt for years, he was on his whole 'trap' steeze since 08 when he did those songs with Khaled & Jeezy

I'm not gonna argue with you over that term no more, its apparent you would refuse to acknowledge Tech N9ne as backpack even if he made a whole album with The Cool Kids and ran with that, but he rocks a doo-rag while recording his videos and aims an actual tech at the camera so that denounces the whole idea

Backpack rap is just underground or fringe mainstream rappers talking about everyday shyt they live or some government political other left field topics, basically music that deviates from mainstream hip-hop you hear on the radio, nothing more complex than that, it ain't all associated with nerdy rappers and cool calm mellow mixtapes with cartoons on the cover

See, you bring up the fact that kanye has been featuring people for years so he is excluded, but if you knew your shyt like you act like you do you would know that tech n9nes whole claim to fame was featuring in other people's tracks and putting people on his, you say kanye has been doing this since 07 and that doesn't make him a trap rapper but ignore the fact that tech has been doing it since the early 90s before kanye. Why is kanye excluded but tech isn't, explain that to me

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