The 6 God announced the overnight success of his new album at a Toronto release party

It looks like Kanye's decision may cost him Billboard recognition.

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In case you missed it, Meek Mill dropped his sophomore album, Dreams Worth More Than Money, a day early at the top of the week. The Philly rapper let the project go as the BET Awards were still running and the timing couldn’t have been better by the sounds of it. While a couple other semi-mainstream rappers are coming […]

     When an album drops, everyone looks to the first week album sales to see whether or not the album will be an overall hit. In French Montana‘s case, by selling only 56,000 copies of his debut album, “Excuse My French,” it seemed to be far from a hit. RELATED: Lost In Translation: French Montana’s […]

When it comes to breaking records in the hip hop arena, Eminem is the man to beat. Besides selling millions of albums in a rapidly declining industry, Em is one of  two rappers to have won the Best Rap Album Grammy each time they’ve released a disc. The other person in that club is Kanye West. […]

The internet was all abuzz with folks predicting what they thought hip-hop’s flavor of the moment, Drake, would sell during his first week.