Nas Tops The Charts
by on July 23rd, 2008
The Album which was originally titled "N*****" received plenty of controversy when Nas first revealed what he would call it, but soon changed the album to "Untitled" saying " It doesn't matter what I call this album".
Despite being on top Nas isn't getting complacent as he joined the protest against Fox News today in New York. He also has an appearance scheduled on the Colbert Report on Comedy Central.
"Untitled" was officially released on July 15th. The first single off the the album was "Hero".



























By the way Untitled is a classic fuck what you heard.
Weezy step down…Nas is here. Nas has lyrical talent, not Weezy.
BUT HE DID NOT COME CLOSE TO OUTSELLING WAYNE YALL GOTTA STOP TRYNA TAKE THAT AWAY FROM THAT MAN..
NOW I KNOW WAYNE GOTTA DO IT 4 MORE TIMES LIKE NAS..BUT WHATS “180,OOO” TO “A MILLI”..NOTHIN NOTHIN NAS AINT SCARING NOTHING..LMAO I KNOW YOU NAS FANS BLOOD IS BOILING RITE NOW…
AND I AINT HATING BUT DEFSOUNDS BROUGHT WAYNE NAME IN IT SO IM JUST GIVING YALL MY TWO CENTS & I GOTTA DEFEND MY FAVORITE RAPPER JUS LIKE YALL DO WHEN PEOPLE SAY WAYNE IS “THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE”(TRUE)
BUT GOOD JOB NAS
VOTE BARACK OBAMA OR DIE
oh yea and at apex, just cuz some one sells a lot of albums dosent mean the are a good artist
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers)-Wu-Tang
Reasonable Doubt-Jay-Z
Illmatic-Nas
Hard to Earn-Gang Starr
Any Slick Rick u can possibly find
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx-Raekwon Just to name a few.
And please don’t tell me you do listen to any of this already cus you wouldn’t be on Wayne’s nut sack (at the very least) as hard as u are on these forums
we all know that a rappers talent or skill is hardly gauged on how many albums he has sold but since YOU wanted to…..
the marshall mathers LP sold 1.76 million in the first week (shit on c3), then the Eminem show sold 1.3 million the first week (will shit on c4(?))…
also the marshall mathers lp went diamond.. yes diamond…
eminem is one of three people to have hip hop albums go diamond (biggie and mc hammer are the other two), something lil wayne could never hope to accomplish.. why am i talking about eminem you ask? i dont know, why did you bring up wayne and his not as great as you think sales..
the moral here is never bring up sales in a rap conversation unless you are talking about eminem. He has sold more than any other living rapper.. and its not like he has outsold them by just a little bit.. he completely shits on them…
“BUT WHATS “180,OOO” TO “A MILLI”" -young apex
yea thats cool but….
BITCH, WHATS “A MILLI” to 10 million???
That makes u a wayne dick rider then.
I’m happy nas took wayne of the #1 spot, nas deserves to be on top. BUY NAS ALBUM OVER T.O.S.
SINCE ITS TO MANY OF YOU TO RESPOND TO, IMA JUST GET THE TOP 3 NAS DICKRIDERS
THE LINE UP OF WELL KNOWN NASIR-KNIGHTS:
#3- DJ D-MOB: JUST TO LET YOU KNOW IM NOT MAD ABOUT NAS TAKING LIL’ WAYNES #1 SPOT BECAUSE WAYNE HAS HAD IT FOR 6 WEEKS LETS SEE HOW LONG NAS HAS IT!!
#2 RealTalkNewYork: LET ME START BY SAYING WTF ARE YOU TALKING BOUT? HOW COULD I START BEEF OVER THE INTERNET SHOWS HOW hood(FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD) YOU ARE YOU MUST NOT HAVE ANY CLUE OF WHUT BEEF IS.. AND ANOTHER THING IM NOT WHITE’ IM A BLACK MALE THAT LIVES IN HOUSTON TEXAS LOOK IT UP WE FAR FROM THE SUBURBS BUT IM WORKING ON GETTIN TO THOSE SUBURBS YOU TALKING ABOUT.. AND LAST THING WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME ABOUT ALL OF THESE CLASSIC JOINTS WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING I SAID AND I WILL ADMIT NAS IS A LEGEND PERIOD..BUT IM NOT A HARDCORE LISTNER OF HIM ONLY BECAUSE I CANT RELATE.. I RELATE MORE TO WAYNE MAYBE BECAUSE HE COME FROM THE SOUTH OR MAYBE CUZ WE BOTH LIKE TO SIP SYRUP IDK EITHER WAY I CAN RELATE TO MORE SHIT HE SAYS THEN NAS… SO STFU CUZ YOU DONT KNOW ME AND I DIDNT SAY ANYTHING TO OR ABOUT YOU.. AND JUST BECAUSE YOU COMMENTED ABOUT THOSE COMMENTS SHOWS THAT YOUR NOT A REAL DUDE THAT CAN RESPECT ANOTHER MANS OPINION
AND FINNALLY #1- raiseup: I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOUR COMING FROM AND LET ME DROP A FEW FACTS MYSELF AND SHUT YOU THE HELL UP.. THE MAIN BASIS OF YOUR COMMENT WAS TO TALK ABOUT EMINEMS ALBUM SALES FIRST OFF EM’ IS NOT NAS AND I DIDNT SAY EM’ COULDNT OUTSELL WAYNE BUT SINCE YOU TOOK IT THERE LET ME TAKE IT FARTHER. FIRST OFF EMINEM IS WHITE AND THERE WAS NOBODY IN HIP-HOP LIKE HIM SO WHITE KIDS IMMEDEATLY BOUGHT HIS ALBUMS PLUS DRE. WAS BACKING HIM SO HE HAD A FEW BLACK PEOPLE.. NOW TELL ME THIS WHEN EM’ SOLD THAT MUCH 1999- 2001 WAS THERE AN INTERNET CRISIS WITH BOOTLEGGING AT AN ALL TIME HIGH AND WAS HIS ALBUM LEAKED FOR FREE DOWNLOADING 2 TIMES AND THEN LEAKED AGAIN THE WEEK BEFORE HIS ALBUM DROPPED?? I’LL ANSWER NOOO INSTEAD EM’ HAD THE BIGGEST PUBLICITY IN AMERICA BECAUSE WAS THE FIRST WHITE GUY TO TALK ABOUT “NIGGA SHIT”.. NOW I AINT TRYING TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM EM’ BUT HOW COULD YOU EVEN COMPARE THOSE SELLS TO WAYNE SELLS THATS LIKE COMPARING USHERS NEW CD TO THRILLER.. BUT MY POINT IS THAT IT IS A WAY DIFFERENT TIME YOU WILL PROBLY NEVER SEE WHAT WAYNE AND KAYNE DID FROM ANY ONE ELSE IN AWHILE LET ALONE EMINEM.. SO THINK BEFORE YOU TALK..
SOOO WITH THAT SAID IM OUT
VOTE OBAMA OR DIE
No radio play, no sing-songy hooks, not even real video play.
Which means no stans, females, or more importantly… Dumbed Down Kids buying his shit.
So with all of that said… 187 is a solid and quite remarkable number!
~Be Eazy!
if it didn’t go number one it would just be sad
he had singles for the album..they just weren’t “smash hits”..who are you blaming for that
180,000 is not good for a legend..plies sold 280,000
Without a smash hit single, or a catchy club banger<<thats an excuse. if his songs were hot they would have been, since many of you believe he’s the g.o.a.t.
at the end of the day..a legend should be selling more than 180,000..thats very low..i’d call it a flop
and what makes waynes album sells good is he did them in 2008 the year of the downloading and leaks and ipods
if nas would have dropped this exact album around when eminem dropped his he would have sold a mil.
i doubt any rapper can ever get a diamond album again..its too many limewire users out there and bootleggers
i cant wait til the next eminem album..i love his music
but it won’t sell as much as his old ones just because it’s 2008
but it would sell a lot because everyone is ready for him to come back
even though i hated that akon shit..smack that..the worst song ever made
you cant compare 2004-present album sells to past-2003 albums
yall ever seen bumfights? lil wayne is like bling bling off of bumfights
this is bling bling
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ezxSuT3Gh0Y&feature=related
and this is the same thing weezy style
http://youtube.com/watch?v=edVj9AkPzCs
all i was saying is you want to talk about sales… and at the same time, really at the end of the day, i wouldnt bet on nas coming behind weezy in career sales.. to be honest wayne seems almost like a fad to me.. and nas is the truth… i mean, whenever your base audience is in middle school, (my 13 year old sister and her friends think hes the greatest) there is a good chance you arent going to be around as long as you think…
and when its all said and done illmatic is better than lil wayne’s greatest hits
but watch nas do a 80% decrease in his sales next week
wayne will be back to the #1 spot
soak it all up nas, u might not never see another number 1 album again
jump off wayne’s dick. CARTER 3 SUCKED!!!
plies sold more them him in his first week …sad
nas is music is dead not hip hop
sorry for bringin 50 up but it had to be stated!
i listen to almost every East-coast – West-coast rappers so i aint biased no stan no dick rider just stating he obvious! sorry south, but ya’all only got Luda, TI, Scarface, UGK, Jeezy and Buck prolly a few i forgot and no waynes not one of em
but that’s just my opinion
i think it was a smash single
everybody been waiting on this album
By the way how many #1 albums does Wayne have? O yea 1. When he tops 5 come holla at me. LOL
he dropped it with perfect timing
it’s not filled with 13 yr. old girls..18 and up..hella grown men
and if you can’t afford it..go to youtube and look at one of his concert vids..those aren’t 13 yr. olds..male or female
CUT THE BULL, STOP THE HATE
Anyway this topic is about Nas.
b) from the south
c) a jay-z cum swapper
d) all of the above
wayne was a teenager..thats like not letting jd make lil bow wow better
T.O.S. = flop
then tha dude who wrote tha article gon make a half-a** statement like without a smash single or club banger Nas hits tha top, all I’m saying is if you are going to post an article shouldn’t you have to be impartial and leave tha comment section to being biased or opinionated…Oh and I guess NAS was silent tha whole time till his drop date while he was making videos and getting in government and polticians a**es…anyways SMH. Nas did his thing and that’s all this post should’ve been about, it seem like everybody wanna be MTV these days with adding drama to ish
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HIS SHIT BEEN GETTING LEAKED FOR THE LONGEST..BUT YALL NIGGAS ACT LIKE HE LEAKS EM HIMSELF TO SELL MORE..FUCK THE DJS..THE DUDE WITH THE 50 CENT COMMENT ABOUT HE PUSHED IT BACK FOR 10 MONTHS..BULLSHIT HIS FULL ALBUM WOULD GET LEAKED A MONTH BEFORE THE DATE HE WANTED TO RELEASE IT
HE LET THIS ONE LEAK AND STILL SOLD 1.5
HATING LIL WAYNE IS A DISEASE
YALL MIGHT THINK IM A WAYNE STAN..BUT IM JUST STATING FACTS
LUPE IS MY FAVORITE RAPPER..THEN COMMON
CHICAGO UP
and thats your opinion on how many good songs were on the carter 3..not a fact
Just judge the music and move on..Fuck all that comparison shit because truth be told 3 Stacks, which is who Wayne is really trying to rap like will run circles around Nas..Yep, I said it..Both of them have a way with words, but Dre is a better storyteller and he actually makes sense..He don’t name drop his choice of fashion or cars it’s all about making a point and giving some real insight..Nas will give a song a title much the same as he does with his cd’s and the lyrics don’t have shit to do with the title..I will say this is one of his best bodies of work..Let’s see if he sticks around to fight the battle or will get his money and run and hide like he normally does until it’s time for the next cd to drop..
By the way, he and any other black person that is so quick to support Obama is a damn fool..Stop being idiots and letting these people sell you on color when this mufucka is the complete opposite of black..Look at his new commercials and show me where he’s shaking a black person hand or sitting at our tables in our homes discussing anything with us..He ain’t..He told y’all Tom’ing ass niggaz that him and his cracka friends ain’t going to be the blame for your issues even though there’s irrefutable evidence showing that they have contributed tremendously to the problems that affect our communities..We’ll stand beside a no-good Tom like that who spent the majority of his life as a white man and is letting these crackaz use him as a tool to distance us from our real leaders..Don’t forget who he cousins with..Don’t forget who brought him in and Don’t forget who that person hangs with now..Once Obama gets in that’s 28 years straight that the Bush family has had a piece of the presidency..Y’all niggaz better realize this ain’t connect 4 it’s chess and what they want y’all to see and what it actually is..Oh yea, this punk ass nigga is talking about picking up a white male Republican on top of all that..If y’all niggaz don’t see what’s happening something is definitely wrong..After they knew the father wouldn’t win his last term they sent their lil pimp Democrat homebwoy Clinton in who was cool enough to sway the black folks while he pulled the wool over our eyes..The son came in next and gangster’ed his way in both times..Now the pimp Democrat that Clinton had giving his going out speech is next in line and he happens to be Bush and Cheney cousin..GTFOH
Black folks are just like a lost ho waiting on the next pimp to come along and spit some game that they can believe in…Fuck all the bullshit and learn the game for yourself so that if you chose to ho it’ll be for yourself..Stop being Tom’s and believing in these crackaz and what nigga they pimping over your real niggaz..That’s where we fucked up with MLK Jr. and all them cats..Integration was just a way for the upper middle class citizens to keep their identity..Where would the sellouts be in a world where the white people didn’t deal with them and the black folks who they turned their backs on didn’t either..So, again fall back and peep game..It’s easy to see who letting the puppetmaster control their moves..I’m riding with Jesse Jackson, Tavis Smiley and Rev. Jeremiah Wright..After he get in i’m going to post my own " I told y’all dumb niggaz blog" on a weekly basis …
Without a smash hit single, or a catchy club banger, Mr. Controversy himself Nasir Jones has climbed to the top of the Billboard Charts this week as he knocked off the reigning leader Lil Wayne<<<<<<<there it is buddy
If he come and drop and it sell like hotcakes it will be a bunch of ignorant people talking sh** like Em is just a “regular” artist that beat out Wayne’s first week, it really is annoying. If he do then that’s good for hip-hop because that mean people been waiting for a good artist and keeping hip-hop alive….but if he don’t then he still one of tha top artist in or out of tha game…but stop acting like its going to be monumental if Em blow tha charts up…he many of peoples favorite rapper and on top of that he is many of people’s favorite white rapper, but I think tha BEST THING ABOUT EM IS HE DIDN’T LET CORPORATE AMERICA TAKE HIM AND MAKE HIM THEIR TOKEN WHITE RAPPER IN HIP-HOP…he said Fu** You I’mma Do me, and that’s why corporate America be bashing him whenever they can because it’s like their chance at a good sell out white rapper failed, if that ain’t some black ish that been happening for years I don’t know what is…but that’s why Em gets so much respect from me; because he’s just him…but I hate all this comparison ish between him and Wayne…
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like i said earlier.. please keep sales out of the conversation UNLESS you are talking about eminem… otherwise your going to get shit on
how does ems dick taste??
if you was a fan of music you’d be ecstatic about an artist selling that much in 08
yall hate wayne so much yall dont want to accept thee fact that he did that in the year of downloads
STOP HATING AND STOP DICK RIDING AND ENJOY REAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND STOP BEING SALTY ABOUT THEE BAD ONES
and wayne shit was leaked which still hurted is sells
nas’s wasnt
BUT IM HAPPY FOR BOTH GUYS
MOST OF ALL HIP HOP
SINCE ITS TO MANY OF YOU TO RESPOND TO, IMA JUST GET THE TOP 3 NAS DICKRIDERS
THE LINE UP OF WELL KNOWN NASIR-KNIGHTS:
#3- DJ D-MOB: JUST TO LET YOU KNOW IM NOT MAD ABOUT NAS TAKING LIL’ WAYNES #1 SPOT BECAUSE WAYNE HAS HAD IT FOR 6 WEEKS LETS SEE HOW LONG NAS HAS IT!!
#2 RealTalkNewYork: LET ME START BY SAYING WTF ARE YOU TALKING BOUT? HOW COULD I START BEEF OVER THE INTERNET SHOWS HOW hood(FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD) YOU ARE YOU MUST NOT HAVE ANY CLUE OF WHUT BEEF IS.. AND ANOTHER THING IM NOT WHITE’ IM A BLACK MALE THAT LIVES IN HOUSTON TEXAS LOOK IT UP WE FAR FROM THE SUBURBS BUT IM WORKING ON GETTIN TO THOSE SUBURBS YOU TALKING ABOUT.. AND LAST THING WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME ABOUT ALL OF THESE CLASSIC JOINTS WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING I SAID AND I WILL ADMIT NAS IS A LEGEND PERIOD..BUT IM NOT A HARDCORE LISTNER OF HIM ONLY BECAUSE I CANT RELATE.. I RELATE MORE TO WAYNE MAYBE BECAUSE HE COME FROM THE SOUTH OR MAYBE CUZ WE BOTH LIKE TO SIP SYRUP IDK EITHER WAY I CAN RELATE TO MORE SHIT HE SAYS THEN NAS… SO STFU CUZ YOU DONT KNOW ME AND I DIDNT SAY ANYTHING TO OR ABOUT YOU.. AND JUST BECAUSE YOU COMMENTED ABOUT THOSE COMMENTS SHOWS THAT YOUR NOT A REAL DUDE THAT CAN RESPECT ANOTHER MANS OPINION
AND FINNALLY #1- raiseup: I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOUR COMING FROM AND LET ME DROP A FEW FACTS MYSELF AND SHUT YOU THE HELL UP.. THE MAIN BASIS OF YOUR COMMENT WAS TO TALK ABOUT EMINEMS ALBUM SALES FIRST OFF EM’ IS NOT NAS AND I DIDNT SAY EM’ COULDNT OUTSELL WAYNE BUT SINCE YOU TOOK IT THERE LET ME TAKE IT FARTHER. FIRST OFF EMINEM IS WHITE AND THERE WAS NOBODY IN HIP-HOP LIKE HIM SO WHITE KIDS IMMEDEATLY BOUGHT HIS ALBUMS PLUS DRE. WAS BACKING HIM SO HE HAD A FEW BLACK PEOPLE.. NOW TELL ME THIS WHEN EM’ SOLD THAT MUCH 1999- 2001 WAS THERE AN INTERNET CRISIS WITH BOOTLEGGING AT AN ALL TIME HIGH AND WAS HIS ALBUM LEAKED FOR FREE DOWNLOADING 2 TIMES AND THEN LEAKED AGAIN THE WEEK BEFORE HIS ALBUM DROPPED?? I’LL ANSWER NOOO INSTEAD EM’ HAD THE BIGGEST PUBLICITY IN AMERICA BECAUSE WAS THE FIRST WHITE GUY TO TALK ABOUT “NIGGA SHIT”.. NOW I AINT TRYING TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM EM’ BUT HOW COULD YOU EVEN COMPARE THOSE SELLS TO WAYNE SELLS THATS LIKE COMPARING USHERS NEW CD TO THRILLER.. BUT MY POINT IS THAT IT IS A WAY DIFFERENT TIME YOU WILL PROBLY NEVER SEE WHAT WAYNE AND KAYNE DID FROM ANY ONE ELSE IN AWHILE LET ALONE EMINEM.. SO THINK BEFORE YOU TALK..
SOOO WITH THAT SAID IM OUT
VOTE OBAMA OR DIE
some of u niggas on nas nuts on DS and didnt buy the CD….thats a shame!
First off Nas congrats on 5th #1 album. And thanks for another TRUE Hip-Hop classic.
Second…to say Nas album sales is a disappointment is totally idiotic. T.O.S. albums sales…NOW THAT’S a disappointment. Plies Albums sales are a disappointment.
Consider: Outside of the strength of a ONE mixtape (Not 100 for you Wayne stans), His name, and the albums name: he DID NOT have any significant marketing that most rappers have. No incredible number of guess appearences, no mainstream video, a barely played single, a barely aired commercial, and few plublicity.
Yet…he claims the #1 spot. INCREDIBLE.
Keep in mind according to MTV he’s not even one of the hottest MC’s in the game.
Best Rapper alive he is though…
This is what a classic sounds like. This is what an ALBUM sounds like. Not a mixtape that you decide to sale at retail stores (which is what most albums sound like now. INCLUDING the Carter 3).
180k A pathetic?
Naaaah…This is what happens when you don’t “Dumb down your audience and double your dollar”
But please…Bash Nas. He doesn’t care. He loves it.
Hip Hop is Dead!
Be A Nigger Too!
Peace!
NAS ALBUM SELLS ARE A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT AND FLOP
U ARE A 100% NAS STAN I UNDERSTAND
I’m not hating on Nas, in fact, I purchased 2 copies of the CD…from an artistic standpoint, it’s a classic – no doubt.
ALL i’m saying is that 190 K in sales is a dissapointment. Now, I agree with the ones that say sales figures are irrelevant. But that still doesn’t mean that Nasty Nas himself is happy with 190 K in sales!! PPL GO OUT AND BUY THE ALBUM!!
Now, the reason why it’s important to have high sales figures is the freedom you get from the higher ups (mainly record execs) who place a priority on your project and thus push more marketing dollars on the artist. So, it’s nothing but advantageous to sell more units…
i hate to generalize, but i moved from new york, to texas, to virginia, and people in the south just dont seem to get it.. i hate to say that they are dumb, but they definately like to listen to dumbed down lyrics.. when i lived in texas, the way people talked about david banner you would have thought he was better than tupac
nas who is what you should be asking..180,000..plies would have beat this nigga out if they dropped the same week..lmao
all these damn nas stans yall should have bought more albums
sell?
fact: cause it’s embarassing. you can’t push Nas down our throats. it’s not gonna happen. he’s overrated. he’s Michelle Obama with a bigger forum. TRASHED shrug he tries makes us feel like we’re part of something special. yeah, pointing out the fact of bein called a nigger for decades makes us feel soooo special. the only ppl diggin Nas’ shit anymore are the old ass Black Panters that are still around and these young fools who think it’s ok to be racist. FACT.
and all you softies that are usin this angle to make yourselves feel better about Nas not even comin close to Wayne’s sales… it’s ok, i understand… your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper sold a Milli the first week.
“Nas’ new album, which was stripped of its epithetastic title in the months leading up to its release, took the No. 1 spot on this week’s album charts, selling 187,000 copies in its first week out.”
FLOP
true nas stans are only men 30 thru 60..the reast of yall don’t even have his album yall just dont want to get trashed on defsounds
i bought the album and liked it..but don’t hate on every other artist when nas fails
everyone doesn’t like nas and his songs and never did..even when “hip hop was alive” get over it
this album been been talked about for months! with the nigger title..white ppl were talking about it..then when they didn’t let him drop it with that title it got talked about even more!
don’t say he didn’t sell b/c hip hop is dead
cuz its not its just evolving..music wise hip hop started as a bunch of beats..if you can say hip hop is dead now you might as well say the first nigga that rapped on a beat killed it
every music genre changes ….rock pop r&b..all of them..al green and neyo don’t sound the same..is r&b dead too?????
bullshit!!!
lmao..nas stans can lie and make themselves believe it..yall worst than the wayne stans
learn to read and comprehend
thanks for being a nas hero though
fuck dat LOLLIPOP bullshit n learn how to BE A NIGGER TOO
Why didn’t it say Nas outsold TOS? This is just another “slick” Hate article.
I’ve never seen so much disrespect in Hip Hop before. Obviously most of these Hip Hop websites come from the same place and uses the same formula.
And its not the hip hop website. its the hip hop website members.
the carter 3 iz weak when compared 2 the carter 2!!! an as far as tha best rapper.. if makaveli was still breathin most of deez fake g’z wouldn’t be shit!!!
2. Untitled
3. Illmatic
Fucking amazing album from QB’s finest.
2. Untitled
3. Illmatic
Fucking amazing album from QB’s finest.
Now on tha other hand, I’ve been saying that this is tha downloading age for about a year now, and trying to get people to stop bring up album sales because this ain’t 1995, they don’t mean anything…it’s all preference Wayne has a huge buzz so people bought tha album, hell I know for a fact a few of my old psych and econ professors at my old college, as I go back and say hi, that tell me they bought tha album just to hear and see what was so exciting about this artist their students are always talking about. Some of tha psych profs are amazed and plus I think for tha simple fact he a psych major some of them weren’t hating it too much, and you gotta remember this a private college so we talking majority older white Profs over 40, with a few younger ones, but majority you feel me and whether or not they thought tha album was garbage they still bought it…So understand people are going to buy things to hear tha buzz…people did tha same thing with NAS’s album with all tha drama around it but his buzz and appeal isn’t as large as Wayne’s, whether it’s right or wrong it just isn’t, so we just simply have to take album sales out of tha equation because their are too many variables nowadays and tha largest one is that computer…you better believe those millions of red, blue, orange, and puple outlined “No Limit” cd’s wouldn’t have done no numbers like that in 2008 believe that…with tha exception of “Ghetto Dope” because that album was fire, I won’t lie, when I was in middle school I used to bump it, but I ain’t no much about real music at that time and was on that “Make’em say uhh, nuh na na na naa” like many other kids…haha, I mean it was a basketball video with Shaq; I know I just took a lot of yall back with that one…
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ReDef.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Albums&f=Top+R%26B%2FHip-Hop+Albums
.wow….that nigga 50 kld sold wayy more if he wld of pushed the release date back 10 months like wayne lmao
STATE FACTS
Young bitches is grazed each block is like a maze
full of black rats trapped, plus the Island is packed
From what I hear in all the stories when my peoples come back, black
I’m livin where the nights is jet black
The fiends fight to get crack I just max, I dream I can sit back
and lamp like Capone, with drug scripts sewn
Or the legal luxury life, rings flooded with stones, homes
I got so many rhymes I don’t think I’m too sane
Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain
and be prosperous, though we live dangerous
cops could just arrest me, blamin us, we’re held like hostages
It’s only right that I was born to use mics
and the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes
I’m takin rappers to a new plateau, through rap slow
My rhymin is a vitamin, held without a capsule
The smooth criminal on beat breaks
Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes
The city never sleeps, full of villians and creeps
That’s where I learned to do my hustle had to scuffle with freaks
I’ma addict for sneakers, twenties of buddah and bitches with beepers
In the streets I can greet ya, about blunts I teach ya
Inhale deep like the words of my breath
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times
Nothing’s equivalent, to the new york state of mind
nas is the truth, and will always be on top. whether he’s sellin the most albums or not.
Well, I know everyone is entitled to their opinion, but sometimes it gets so annoying hearing people talk about lyricism and they prolly got below a C or lower in their English class; and this is real talk here. Everybody be screaming lyrics and this person really spits real, and they drop knowledge, but your favorite rappers either went to school or are going back to school, or at least trying; at least tha ones you claim to be so LYRICALLY BLESSED, so tell me how it is you really know what is so lyrical or word schematic and you don’t even have your knowledge up; Is it tha connection of tha lifestyle or what, I really just wanna know what makes people so damn warranted to tell others what is lyrical and what isn’t. That’s like telling an artist his painting is crap because he painted with his fingers oppose to a fine brush, it might not move you, BUT WHAT IF IT MOVES SOMEONE ELSE. I’m bored so I was just wondering, and if you don’t reply at least it’s something to think about….
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I heard the album, and I must say that it is worth buying. And btw, please think before you talk regarding album sales. I’m really tired of hearing about how Eminem destroys everybody and their dog in album sales. Just look at who buys his albums…
Anywho, I’m still waiting for Cage to drop his next album, Depart From Me.
STOP PUTTING THAT SHIT ON US!!..CUZ YALL KNOW YALL GOT THAT SHIT LOW KEY..LMAO
I’ll add my two right quick on your post..I hate to tell you but a school is not a place to gain knowledge..We lose knowledge at schools as black people but I get what you were trying to say..Schools only teach us how to become trained monkeys..It is quite capable for a black man to be a high school drop-out (even though i’m not) and still possess more intellect than someone who have their Doctorate..So don’t combine school and knowledge because it’s somewhat of an oxymoron and if you don’t believe me think about all the things you’ve learned weren’t true after you got out of high school..Crackers put lies into books and beat them into our head continuously until it becomes second nature for us to go around spreading their lies to each other..
Bottom line is play their game by all means but still have a true understanding of what’s taking place..Don’t become another corporate Tom and lose touch with who you are as a person en route to their fictitious American Dream..Stop being fooled by their definition of education and educate yourself..
Now tha real thing I was only trying to get across in that comment was that I find it amazing that I know for a fact not everybody on this site could prolly write a paper that could be presented in front of anybody of stature but they claim they know what is real lyricism and greatness…hell tha punchlines are just for fun and enjoyment, tha real is going back to tha Marly Marls and Grandmaster flash era and listening to their simplistic rhymes with HEAVY messages and seeing if you can dig what they was saying…but would they survive in THIS world of hip-hop now…and tha answer is no and that’s a shame…see I have my preferences too but when they spit they believed if you could feel what they was saying you will hear what they saying which is why you can dance to lots if not all they music, nowadays we got tha feel down, but ain’t nobody saying nothing [majority] not all because some are, but it still steadies around preference
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Yes Plies sold more than Nas. But consider the amount of work Plies did and that check he’ll recieve. PATHETIC. I wouldn’t be surprised if he still owes money.
ALSO you need to get your facts right…Nas’s first week sales 180K..
Plies 1st week sales…about 100K. Yes is album is currently Gold. But those are pathetic sales considering all the work and singles (CLUB BANGERS are SUPPOSED to give you BIG NUMBERS). All the star studded guest appearences, All the producers, and people writing hooks and what not. He can’t be to happy about these album sales.
…Did I mention he’s signed to a label thats signed to a label?
Pray for Plies times are hard!
as for G-Unit..don’t give me that bullshit about group albums sale less. COMPLETE cop out. This is G-UNIT we’re talking about, Beg For Mercy did INCREDIBLE numbers.
And is been 5 years since that album. You can’t tell me the die hard G-Unit fans weren’t itching for this album. Shit…I was!
Consider all the fueding and internet plublicity they collected. Shit they even said things about Wayne which got them instant attention. Yet…to sell what they sold is pathetic.
And the funny thing is…the money they’ll get from this album they’ll have to split between 50 Cent, Yayo, Banks..,Buck
Then the producers who aren’t just ordinary producers:
Swizz Beatz, Ron Browz, Tha Bizness, Rick Rock, Ty Fyffe, Polow da Don, Don Cannon, Jake One
Pray for G-Unit…Times are Hard!
And I can have you Pray for Wayne too if you like. So don’t temp me you dumbed down idiots…
Enough about everybody else. I copped “Untitled” best album so far album. Classic. Even his mixtape is better than any album I’ve heard so far.
Support Hip Hop…
Peace!
like i said nas stans lie and make themselves believe it
First of all, I’ll say this much Nas is not comparable to Plies when it comes to talent..Secondly, for Plies to outsell Nas when he’s a supposed living legend is big..No matter who he had behind him or how many labels he’s signed to..You don’t want to compare money made from shows, album and ringtone sales and so forth or Plies will blow Mr. Nasir out of the water..Don’t forget this is Plies second album and this is Nas what?
If you are going to talk talent that’s one thing but Nas ain’t seeing the kind of money Plies getting and both are signed to the same company..The talent might be better up here but our hustle is that much better on the flip side..Compare some of our elite rappers that have only been in the game half the time as some of the East Coast legends and you’ll find that they are the ones not getting paid..Any rapper will tell you the game is 90% grind and 10% talent..That’s why Nas and Shawty Lo will be in the same income bracket this year..Nas is one of the worst hustlers in hip hop and a true definition of a crab in a bucket..Who else is helping from QB? Why hasn’t he put out any acts on his record label? Why isn’t he ever one of the top earners in hip hop when any year he drops a cd his is one of the top sellers? Plies probably makes more money off of ringtones a year than Nas will make off of his cd..Another thing is half these dope boy rappers do more for their community than Nas..
Community support
Plies > Nas
Talent
Nas > Plies
Hustle
Plies > Nas
and i would expect plies to sell more he caters to woman and woman buy albums
stop worrying about other niggas money that a bitch trait homie i bet he wont give you a dime
I don’t give a fuck about neither one of their albums because truth be told one is a college educated brother rapping about negative shit..The other is a so called street poet and activist that don’t do shit for his community..If Nasir was about encouragement and inspiring he wouldn’t make it a point to degrade black women every chance he gets..He would rap about things that will better us as a people and not bring us down, which he does just as much as the next man..Get your own opinion and stop repeating some shit you heard another nigga say pertaining to Nas..What the fuck is he doing for you? What dime has he gave you? I bet you’ll chose to think before speaking to me next time..
Bottom line is I don’t co-sign neither of these fraud ass niggaz because i’m not just listening to their words like the rest of you lost mufuckaz..I’m following their actions too and neither words are matching their action..Now what did you have to say? I don’t dick ride another man because I got my own partner..Now give Kelis back Nas dick please..
You ignorance needs no response…
how can you say plies selling 280,000 is a flop
but nas selling 180k isn’t??? nas is the legend right?
and stop with the girls buying albums shit..they download the shit as quick as the next nigga
yall basically saying nas doesn’t have a female or teenage audience.. how can he be a hip hop legend then?
a good artist should be able to reach out to everyone..not just internet intellectuals
STOP THE HATE..NIGGAS HATE TO SEE EACH OTHER SUCCEED!!
N.I.G.G.E.R. = Nas, Is, Gods, Greatest, Ever, Rapper…..
N.I.G.G.E.R. = Nas, Is, Gods, Greatest, Ever, Rapper…..
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i guess chicago is on they shit ..92.3 ha!
It’s a lot of mainstream rappers that scatter thought provoking lyrics in their rhymes..Nas ain’t the only one and don’t act like he’s been making these kind of cd’s either..I remember when Illmatic first came out and the follow up..He said some real shit but not on every song and there ain’t too many songs in his cataloge where he stays on track with the theme of the song..I like Nas but he’s nowhere close to hip hop’s savior..How many songs does he talk about killing other brothers just like the rest? How many times has he name dropped on his fashion? I tell you what listen to " If I ruled the World"…Did he not talking about selling drugs, using drugs, name dropped white companies? Don’t get me wrong he said some real shit but he’s contradicting himself all at the same time..You never heard Pac mixing songs like “I get around” and " Keep ya head up" in the same song..He stuck to the topic..Just like Nas don’t stick with his battles he rarely sticks to the topic..In the words of Jay “Just because he wear a koufi don’t mean that he bright”..
nas def. does talk about that shit
from songs like big girl now, or kissing
he just throws em in very lyrically..he talks about cars and jewelry just like everyone else
why do yall think he only talks about pos. shit like hes rapping thee martin luther king dream..he’s just much more lyrical with it..same shit though
I wish people would do more research on these rappers instead of just riding with them..If I told you I was about my people and I never came back to my old neighborhood..Never did anything for the people and kids in that neighborhood then how could I convince you that I am about the struggle forreal? I wouldn’t be able to but black people need someone to believe in so bad they’ll follow any nigga in a position to say something…i.e. Nas and Obama…
I’ve played many ho’s off things i’ve said to them but if anyone of them broads would’ve watched my actions they would’ve knew I didn’t have their best interest in mind…It’s no different with this shit here..Stop watching the left hand so much when you don’t know what the right hand is doing until it’s too late and you get the shit smacked out of you..Game is game and it don’t matter what format it’s given a real player knows when it’s being spit…Last time we fell for this bullshit we let a country ass cracka by the name of Clinton trick us just because he smoke weed, like head and listening to black music..Damn near every cracka I know do the same things..It’s just we needed someone to believe in so bad..All at the same time this mufucka was using his plane strips in Arkansas to bring in coke and support wars in the other countries while destroying our communities..Read up homie..
LAX = Next Hot Album
this niggas is the greatest rapper alive not jay-z not wayne or nebody else its NAS THE GREATEST RAPPER ALIVE
Rawtoon..and that other guy. To settle are dispute. Nas IS a Hip Hop Legend. It doesn’t matter how many records he sales. So pair him with any rapper you want. Nas isn’t the best because he sales millions of records or because he targets an specific audience.
He doesn’t. He’s the best simply becuase he has the courage and the lyrics to CREATE music HE wants to hear nusic he feels is what needed to be heard.
Just cause your favorite artist (Plies, Weezy, etc) make music YOU want to hear…doens’t make them better. It makes them worse. Because there music’ll change to tailor whatever trend is popluar at the time.
Nas is forever.
So yeah..you called me an internet ntellectual…If that’s because I feel Nas is better than 97% of the rappers you can name. Then So be it I’ll take that title.
That’s better than being an computer gangster I’ll tell you that much.
Be a nigger too.
Stop hating on Nas it’ll get you nowhere. He doesn’t care.
Hip Hop is dead!
And all you other cats throwing shots at me…
You only get have a sentence:
FUCK YA’LL NIGGAS.
Peace!
please don’t speak on me and who i like b/c u obviously dont know
and you said a specific audience??
a legend would reach out to anyone and everyone..so saying that means hes a legend to the ppl..that specific audience you’re talking about..and only them..you didn’t make a good point
i hate plies and wayne he has a good verse every once in a while..im just putting out facts..just because i state wayne and plies sold way more than nas don’t mean their my fav.
SO STFU WITH THAT BULLSHIT..YOU’RE ANOTHER NAS STAN MAKING HIMSELF BELIEVE WHAT HE WANTS TO..NAS FLOPPED AND MANY PPL THINK HE’S WEAK AS HELL..AND NO ALL OF THEM ARENT TEENAGE GIRLS..AND ITS OBVIOUS PPL BELIEVE THAT B.C HIS ALBUM SOLD 180K
STATE FACTS..DON’T HATE
By the way, I guess you’re not as big a fan of Nas as you stated because if i’m not mistaken AZ was on his first cd..Jay might not’ve outsold Nas on his first cd but since then it’s not even close..You said opinions are cool but a fact is a fact..The things you saying Nas did may have affected you that way but not everyone that listened to him..So, there’s another opinion…Everything you said was opinion with the exception of Nas going platinum before..You might want to pull up Webster’s and find out the definition of fact and opinion..
I’m old enough to remember some things..Nas was before his time with Illmatic but Pac was before his time with what he was talking about and his actions..All the things you say Nas taught us is what Pac actually did along with Public Enemy, NWA and so on..Nas was and has always been just a rapper..Are you really ignorant enough to believe swag didn’t exist before Nas? Old heads know Nas was only a younger version of Rakim with less lyricism..To be completely honest all these rappers stole their swag from the niggaz that was out there running the streets at the time..If you ain’t at least a 70’s baby you wouldn’t understand..Nowadayz the so called street cats mimic rappers but back in the 80’s and 90’s it was the other way around..The rappers were getting raped up until the mid 90’s…Dope boyz been eating the whole time and they had the money to live the life most of these rappers rapped about..You need to get your facts straights and learn the history of the black community and the history of hip hop before commenting again…
Hating: means to dislike someone for no reason other than jealousy or envy..
I’m neither so i’m not a hater..I give my opinion and you don’t have to agree..I wish you young niggaz stop falling in love with these rappers and co-signing them like you know them..I don’t know them either but I do see their actions..We as fans have only two things to draw our conclusions from, which are actions and words..
Nas is only partially correct with what he say because he usually contradicts himself often..As far as his actions go they don’t exist..If Nas acted as much as he talked he’d be another version of Pac..Since he’s not he’s just another nigga with something to say and he ain’t doing shit about it..
Wayne has flip flopped back & forth on the #1 spot. One week he has it, the next week he dosen’t. The #1 spot isn’t even important but that 1,900,000+ copies sold is.
Nas can have the lil #1 spot but is he going to sell as much as he needs to? Remember Weezy went gold the first day. Nas is still on brass nigga.
You dumb dumbs think about that.