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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Rud on October 30, 2012, 12:57:55 PM
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http://www.dubcnn.com/2012/10/30/kendrick-lamar-charts-2-with-242122-units-sold/
Kendrick Lamar Charts #2 With 242,122 Units Sold
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It really has been Kendrick Lamar week over the past 7 days – not just here but across the industry!
Why not too – “good kid, m.A.A.d. city” is OUT and it’s a classic – in our last update we told you that XXL had given the LP it’s very own classic rating; XXL Gives Kendrick Lamar “good kid, m.A.A.d city” Coveted XXL Rating!
If you don’t own ”good kid, m.A.A.d. city” yet then get off dubcnn right now and get your copy - don’t come back til you do!
For those that have we can confirm that HitsDailyDouble, in the last few minutes, have confirmed first week sales of 242,122 units of ”good kid, m.A.A.d. city” – an INCREDIBLE first week!
Congratulations from the entire dubcnn.com team (aka DOWN SINCE DAY ONE) to Kendrick Lamar and the Top Dawg Entertainment family!
If you missed the Black Hippy Remix of “The Recipe” check it again below!
Buy “good kid, m.A.A.d. city” now via iTunes.
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Congratulations !!!!
Hey Kendrick ! :monkey_piss: in Meek Mill sales this week!
+100.000 this week certainty.
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Kendrick a big deal now
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these numbers woulda been good in 2001....now, theyre amazing
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This is really crazy!! I mean this guy only had buzz on the net and lately on the radio and TV with Swimming Pools, but no top 50 single. Amazing! Debuting at #2 these days only by buzz with these numbers is a huge success and it shows that sometimes, class puts across! I'm proud of Kendrick and this is well deserved. I'm sure though that Aftermath helped him a lot in the last few weeks prior to the release with all the TV guest appearences they provided. I think this time, Aftermath did most of the things right, first by granting Kendrick full creative control over his album, but also the way they promoted the album. Nice!
I bought the regular version by the way, cause I think this is the only essential version rounded up as a short film. I don't like buying a bonus cd which is individually made for a certain store or whatever. but if you ask me, they should have made the deluxe version equally for everyone and put cd 2 like this:
01 The Recipe ft. Dr. Dre
02 Black Boy Fly
03 Now Or Never
04 Collect Calls
05 County Building Blues
06 Cartoons & Cereal
07 The Recipe (Black Hippy Remix)
08 Swimming Pools (Black Hippy Remix)
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When you think of all the white boys into Kendrick's music it makes sense he moves big numbers.
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When you think of all the white boys into Kendrick's music it makes sense he moves big numbers.
And Kendrick will gladly go without the support of your blatant racist ass. nuff said, kthxbye.
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congratulation to kendrick lamar hottest west coast artist since game i hope the rest of the tde does the same
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these numbers woulda been good in 2001....now, theyre amazing
Yeah this is great news for West Coast rap fans. Aftermath and Dre being back on top of hip-hop is what the game needs. That's right where it should be. There are so many followers in the industry so when somebody wack like Lil Wayne rises to the top then the whole game gets fucked.
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these numbers woulda been good in 2001....now, theyre amazing
Yeah this is great news for West Coast rap fans. Aftermath and Dre being back on top of hip-hop is what the game needs. That's right where it should be. There are so many followers in the industry so when somebody wack like Lil Wayne rises to the top then the whole game gets fucked.
Yup. I know I talk about it a lot but I hate when industry heads, especially ones from the West Coast who are supposedly from the streets, co-signing a ketchup motherfucker like Lil Wayne. And it's not because they're buying into it, but a lot of them just want more exposure and don't mind getting it from someone waving the same flag. Think about it -- Mack 10, Game, Jay Rock and Menace were all trying to get on tracks with him.
Kendrick will hopefully bring more attention to the West Coast without any of the silliness or the drama and maybe make trends of his own, with other genuine West Coast acts trying to get with him on a musical level without having to smile and play along with other people from other places trying to jock West Coast culture and re-sell our own shit to us.
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Good to see Kendrick movin' units
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Kendrick is KNOWN outside of the internet and has been for a minute and its more than just white ppl who brought the music. thats a ridiculous assumption
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graT!
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Kendrick is KNOWN outside of the internet and has been for a minute and its more than just white ppl who brought the music. thats a ridiculous assumption
Yeah, he's been steadily touring, and dropping music for his fanbase, building that ish brick by brick. This is a great look for K Dot 8)
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Think about it -- Mack 10, Game, Jay Rock and Menace were all trying to get on tracks with him.
I think it's the other way around, especially for Mack 10. when they signed Mack 10 to Cash Money he was more established than Weezy even though his career was seriously ebbing. but i feel your for the rest of the post.
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Kendrick is KNOWN outside of the internet and has been for a minute and its more than just white ppl who brought the music. thats a ridiculous assumption
Yeah, he's been steadily touring, and dropping music for his fanbase, building that ish brick by brick. This is a great look for K Dot 8)
Yup. Wiz, Juicy J, 2 Chainz, Curren$y, and a few others have brought a "brand new" standard back to the game, mainly Curren$y & Wiz. Plus he's also one of the very very few YouTube! artists to ever not get corny. Even though I have to add that if keeps rappin about $ he'll soon play himself the fuck out. He's staying in his lane so to speak but it's a good chance that it'll backfire on him
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Congratulations to Kendrick. Will be buyin' my copy tomorrow.
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you can almost double that number if this were about 7 or 8 years ago...I think Game did like 600k but he wouldn't have done that without the help of 50
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just received my deluxe edition today. bought 4 cd's this year, krit, slaughterhouse, xzibit & kendrick.
these numbers woulda been good in 2001....now, theyre amazing
yeah, just like in 2001 going gold was a sign of success for solid rap releases, now you have to cross over to go gold. going gold in 2001 is like 200k nowadays. in 2001 tha eastsidaz went gold with their second album, they would never do it in this time and age. conversely, BOB's album The Adventures of Bobby Ray went gold in late 2010, in 2001 this would have gone at least 2x platinum.
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these numbers woulda been good in 2001....now, theyre amazing
in 2001 tha eastsidaz went gold with their second album, they would never do it in this time and age. conversely, BOB's album The Adventures of Bobby Ray went gold in late 2010, in 2001 this would have gone at least 2x platinum.
more like vice versa
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congrats.go 2 show skillz still sells.kendrick sold way more records then 2 chains & sold as many records as nicki minaj.
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When you think of all the white boys into Kendrick's music it makes sense he moves big numbers.
And Kendrick will gladly go without the support of your blatant racist ass. nuff said, kthxbye.
White people love Kendrick = Moves Units.
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these numbers woulda been good in 2001....now, theyre amazing
in 2001 tha eastsidaz went gold with their second album, they would never do it in this time and age. conversely, BOB's album The Adventures of Bobby Ray went gold in late 2010, in 2001 this would have gone at least 2x platinum.
more like vice versa
? what do you mean vice versa ? that Bob's album went double plat and that it would have gone only gold in 01 ?
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these numbers woulda been good in 2001....now, theyre amazing
in 2001 tha eastsidaz went gold with their second album, they would never do it in this time and age. conversely, BOB's album The Adventures of Bobby Ray went gold in late 2010, in 2001 this would have gone at least 2x platinum.
more like vice versa
? what do you mean vice versa ? that Bob's album went double plat and that it would have gone only gold in 01 ?
lol...dont count on his reply having to do anything with whats being discussed.
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Think about it -- Mack 10, Game, Jay Rock and Menace were all trying to get on tracks with him.
I think it's the other way around, especially for Mack 10. when they signed Mack 10 to Cash Money he was more established than Weezy even though his career was seriously ebbing. but i feel your for the rest of the post.
Not exactly. Lil Wayne's first album was officially certified Platinum while his second was Gold, and when Mack 10 signed after that, Mack 10's albums prior to that were only certified Gold, plus Bang or Ball didn't get certified anything. Obviously at that point in their careers, Mack 10's resume and relevance to hip-hop was a lot stronger than Lil Wayne's, but it's not as if Lil Wayne was a nobody, plus their album sales at that time were very similar, though Mack 10's declined while Lil Wayne's increased.
Either way, by those rappers co-signing him by doing tracks with him (which makes him appear more certified), they're obviously going with it in exchange for the exposure, regardless of what the guy is putting across and how fucked up it might be. So maybe when Beiber gets a little older and wants to start getting flamed up, they'll co-sign him too if the money is right.
It's just such a radical shift from when before people would get punked if they started Crip Walking and weren't from the hood (even though it was so trendy 10-15 years ago), but now people can claim Blood this and Damu that without repercussion as long as your music is in heavy rotation.
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these numbers woulda been good in 2001....now, theyre amazing
in 2001 tha eastsidaz went gold with their second album, they would never do it in this time and age. conversely, BOB's album The Adventures of Bobby Ray went gold in late 2010, in 2001 this would have gone at least 2x platinum.
more like vice versa
? what do you mean vice versa ? that Bob's album went double plat and that it would have gone only gold in 01 ?
B.o.B just wouldnt have been as popular in 2001 as Tha Eastsidaz, and thats not even factoring that both Stars backing Tha Eastsidaz and B.o.B were out then. That lane he's in (and helped create for himself) simply wasnt there in 2001, that kinda Rap simply wasnt accepted like that back then. Hip Hop is way more diverse now than its ever, its just Bloggers looking for contraversy to get everybody talkin to make u think Rap music and Hip Hop culture was something different when it comes to certain issues and accolades back then. It kills the history of the game a little too, word to the HHID album.
White folks may (or may not in cases) support the culture financially but Black folks have always and will always dictate it. We wouldnt have been so receptive to a Pop Artist (in his case the literal definition of it) back in 2000/2001/2002 and so on. It took a while and alot of ground breaking to get to this point in the culture. It just wasnt always this diverse and demographically unanimously accepted as it is today.
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White folks may (or may not in cases) support the culture financially but Black folks have always and will always dictate it. We wouldnt have been so receptive to a Pop Artist (in his case the literal definition of it) back in 2000/2001/2002 and so on. It took a while and alot of ground breaking to get to this point in the culture. It just wasnt always this diverse and demographically unanimously accepted as it is today.
But it didn't get that way without compromises. Hip-hop culture and mainstream were so far apart 10-15 years ago, whereas now, they're a lot more alike in terms of style. Now you have rappers dressing like everyone else (skinny jeans, V-necks, skater brands, skateboards, hipster shit) rather than the style more associated with the streets. Similarly, you have non-street people wearing stuff that used to be street-oriented. For example, I have a friend who just likes wearing bandannas in his pockets ALL THE FUCKING TIME but he lives in Irvine, pretty much the safest city in the U.S. We went to Vegas earlier this year and he was still wearing it, and sure enough someone who ended up being from Rollin 40 Crip asked him what was up, and I just said my friend (who was drunk) just likes sporting bandannas. So there's a lot of crossover in style now.
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^thats exactly what i said. some folks just have a super short attention span and only wanna remember and hear what they wanna remember and hear and then try to airbrush it like theyre not more wrong or right than the person they initially had the dispute with
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wow, i'm really suprised by this album moving these numbers.
I thought the album was weak, and far from a classic, but these numbers are huge for this day and age in rap.
I mean i guess he had to do atleast ok numbers, because he's got the interscope machine behind him.
Dont really feel his music but congrats to him anyways. more power to him
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these numbers woulda been good in 2001....now, theyre amazing
in 2001 tha eastsidaz went gold with their second album, they would never do it in this time and age. conversely, BOB's album The Adventures of Bobby Ray went gold in late 2010, in 2001 this would have gone at least 2x platinum.
more like vice versa
? what do you mean vice versa ? that Bob's album went double plat and that it would have gone only gold in 01 ?
B.o.B just wouldnt have been as popular in 2001 as Tha Eastsidaz, and thats not even factoring that both Stars backing Tha Eastsidaz and B.o.B were out then. That lane he's in (and helped create for himself) simply wasnt there in 2001, that kinda Rap simply wasnt accepted like that back then. Hip Hop is way more diverse now than its ever, its just Bloggers looking for contraversy to get everybody talkin to make u think Rap music and Hip Hop culture was something different when it comes to certain issues and accolades back then. It kills the history of the game a little too, word to the HHID album.
White folks may (or may not in cases) support the culture financially but Black folks have always and will always dictate it. We wouldnt have been so receptive to a Pop Artist (in his case the literal definition of it) back in 2000/2001/2002 and so on. It took a while and alot of ground breaking to get to this point in the culture. It just wasnt always this diverse and demographically unanimously accepted as it is today.
all i'm saying is that an album like BoB's with two strong radio friendly singles would have gone 2x platinum in 2001, when he only went gold in 2011. and conversely a hardcore rap album like Tha Eastsidaz which went gold off the strength off their first effort and Snoop Dogg's backing would have had trouble selling copies in 2012 because even legends have a hard time selling copies, Snoop's last gold-platinum selling projects was in 2006.
We wouldnt have been so receptive to a Pop Artist (in his case the literal definition of it) back in 2000/2001/2002 and so on. It took a while and alot of ground breaking to get to this point in the culture. It just wasnt always this diverse and demographically unanimously accepted as it is today.
if you think about it, Nelly was popish, Snoop started going pop in 02 when he started fucking with Pharell (it resurrected his mainstream career) and when he dropped PTCTBTB, Jay-Z became larger than life as soon as he dated Beyoncé and fell out with Dame, and this was in 2002. 2002 was a stepping stone for the mainstream accolade of hip-hop. after that, the boundaries between hip-hop & rnb & pop music have kept getting blurrier and blurrier.
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Kendrick selling as much as Nicki Minaj really says something...on the other hand this dude named Meek Mill is projected to do close to 200k, never heard of him
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Kendrick selling as much as Nicki Minaj really says something
Kendrick deserves it. That's for sure.
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first week sales like this and Nas' album make me restore faith in society as a whole.
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Six months ago I was pretty much done with hip-hop. I've never been an exclusive hip-hop head as such, such a fan of lots of types of music, with hip-hop being one of them. At that point I just felt that hip-hop had gotten stale and was dying. Since then Nas has put out "Life Is Good" and Kendrick has put out the best hip-hop album in at least 6 years. It appears that hip-hop ain't dead yet.
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B.o.B wouldnt have been the B.o.B he is today doing the type of branding he's doing simple and plain. U can argue hypotheticals all u want but he wouldnt have been so widely accepted by Hip Hop back then. Thats not a slight at his talent and ability becuz i genuinely believe he's gifted but he wouldnt have survived that climate as a mainstream solo act back then period.