Rap Albums On The Billboard Chart

Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy    496,000(496,000)

Nicki Minaj- Pink Friday   375,000(375,000)

Eminem- Recovery  48,000(3,053,000)

Lloyd Banks- The Hunger For more2   45,000(45,000)

Lil Wayne- I Am Not A Human Being  37,000(511,000)

Curren$y- Pilot Talk 2  15,000(15,000)

Those are the numbers for this week, and i guess a lot of people guessed right when they said Kanye would be untop this week. I have not heard the album, so i can not make any comment on it. It sold a little more copies than his last album(808 & heartbreaks) in its first week, so you can say he made some improvements.

And you have Nicki's album next, and it is no surprise either, because it was expected. She had a huge buzz before her album dropped, and she made a lot of guest appearnces on other artists records, that blew up, so it is only natural that her album would do so good.

And the pope of rap, Eminem is still moving units with his latest album; Recovery. It has crossed the 3 million mark, and i think it would end up selling like 3.5million copies.

Llloy Banks album, The Hunger For More2, did 45k; i think that is what i was expecting it to do. Okay, the album might be cool, but it is root rap; no pop shit, and i guess it is the poppish shit that is selling now. So, no one should look at his album as a flop.

Let us see how Kanye and Nicki fare in weeks to come.

4 Rap Albums dropped today

Yeah, Nicki Minaj's PINK FRIDAY, Lloyd Banks HUNGER FOR MORE2, Kanye West's MY DARK TWISTED FANTASY and AZ's DOE OR DIE2 are all dropping today, November 22. In fact, by the time you would be reading this post, they would already be in stores, so go out and support this rappers, they have put in a lot of time and energy to make this albums.

All the artist are big on radio except AZ, but that don't mean he is not worth checking out. It just so happen that he is from the 90's era and has not been able to blend in with the new climate of hiphop.

I would like to educate people that don't know who he is: az was the only rapper feautured on Nas's classic album, ILLMATIC, and he dropped his debut album, DOE OR DIE, in 1995. He and nas have always been friends even before the two blew up.