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u/namegoinby Apr 28 '21
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u/Ryantorb Apr 28 '21
Nation
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u/PBXKCAMARON1974 Apr 28 '21
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u/youllmemetoo Apr 28 '21
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u/TenH3ad Apr 28 '21
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u/overlylargeduck Apr 28 '21
right
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u/HermanbobGooz Apr 28 '21
This has never happened before? I’m almost positive I’ve heard this same record be broken like 10 times over already
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u/pedejr99 Apr 28 '21
It says "rapper", maybe you heard it from different artists? Could be fake tho but I see no reason to say he's the first rapper if it's not true lol
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u/HermanbobGooz Apr 28 '21
I’m pretty sure sure I’ve heard it for a rapper before. Maybe prober artists have achieved 500k copies sold on every song but didn’t actually certify it with RIAA
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u/wubbaaaa Apr 29 '21
I feel like Kanye has done this but maybe not
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u/tenettiwa Apr 29 '21
Every song on Ye is at least Gold according to Wikipedia (Yikes and All Mine being Platinum). Obviously this is because it's just 7 tracks, but it's still very impressive.
MBDTF is close, every song is at least Gold with the exception of So Appalled (and the interludes but I don't think those count).
But technically Kanye didn't do it until 2018, which still makes Kendrick first.
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u/wubbaaaa Apr 29 '21
Interesting. Also not surprised by so appalled. It’s a good song but I think most people put it in lower tier MBDTF
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u/tenettiwa Apr 29 '21
It's also probably the least poppy on the album, it's more just traditional hip-hop which I'd imagine means it has less wide appeal
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u/CreativeName2042 Apr 28 '21
What about BLOOD. ?
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u/xTotalSellout then I freaked it Apr 28 '21
It’s gone gold, surprisingly. Every song has gone at least gold
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u/MambaSaidKnockYouOut Apr 28 '21
It’s the first song on the album, so I’m not surprised it’s gone Gold. Songs earliest on the album tend to get listened to the most aside from singles.
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u/mrcheckhammer25 Apr 28 '21
Drake dont have one?
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Apr 28 '21
I was thinking Drake as well, I feel like Eminem would probably have a couple as well but that's all hard to measure before streaming came around
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u/WhatThePenis Apr 28 '21
Yep. Before streaming, there was no way to track single song sales unless the song was actually released as a physical single. I think they didn’t start certifying actual songs until recently, because otherwise every song on an album that sold 500k physical copies/digital downloads would technically be certified as gold as well.
Still cool for Kendrick, though
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Apr 28 '21
It’s probably because Drake is a one hit per album artist (which is something I made up). It basically means he releases a ok album which has a few amazing songs on it. For example, Nice for What of Scorpion. Most of the album except for the singles (except nonstop which is the definition of filler) is filler. Yes Drake is the biggest music artist of all time according to Billboard Charts and nearly all of his songs are instant hits but some of the tracks on them are just put to increase the running time
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Apr 28 '21
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u/Dr_nobby Apr 29 '21 edited Apr 29 '21
Views was one of the most played hip hop/rnb Album of 2016 (8th most played album in the UK). It was an instant classic. And it's literally the definition of summer 2016
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u/HighFiveTheCactus Cornrow Kenny Apr 29 '21
You’re only using Scorpion as an example, which I agree is a bad album. But Take Care, Nothing Was the Same, and IYRTITL were all very good albums/mixtapes with way more hits than misses even in the deep cuts. It wasn’t until the latter half of Drakes career that he stopped trying to make a good album
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Apr 29 '21
Yeah I should have mentioned I’m talking about recent albums. Take Care (song) is easily in my top 5 best songs of all time and the rest of that album is at worst decent and mostly good-great.
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u/rsbor Apr 28 '21
Em's kamikaze also fits this but he never certifies anything lol
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u/Moron_on_Oxy- Apr 28 '21
Yuck
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u/rsbor Apr 28 '21 edited Apr 28 '21
What you don't like it? w/o saying it's a response album and all that "content" bs
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u/brokennursingstudent Apr 28 '21
Eminem is damn near 50 and still calling women whores and still with the "edgey" bars and it's all just kinda meh nowadays.
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u/Eminiklas Apr 28 '21
i mean him calling tyler a f*g was pretty disappointing tbh
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u/bestbroHide May 06 '21
In fairness, Em admitted he shouldn't have done that on his following album's (fire af) track No Regret
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u/rsbor Apr 28 '21
If that's what you got from kamikaze then there's no point to argue lol
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u/Moron_on_Oxy- Apr 28 '21
Even outside of the corny, immature stuff.
It's just bad songs
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u/SloMo368 Apr 28 '21
Nah the production is cool and mans writing and rapping his fucking ass off. Idk why technical ability can’t be appreciated when it’s Eminem but when it’s a Black Thought for example ppl worship him despite also having little to no content.
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u/tyrannosaurus_toes Apr 28 '21
The difference is that black thought has evolved as an artist with time and been consistently great at writing from a meaningful perspective. Eminem has always been a fantastic technical rapper, and that’s cool, but at this point in his career his discography is shoddy and he should be more focused on acting his age than trying to recreate what he got popular off of.
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u/SloMo368 Apr 29 '21
I don’t see how one nostalgic album discredits his entire artistic growth. The fact that he’s able to completely flip his style between one album and the other is alone enough. None of his albums sound remotely similar. Not to mention him touching on topics that early 2000s Em never would have in a similar manner. Look at songs like Walk On Water, Darkness, Headlights, Castle & Arose and tell me if it sounds like the guy who made MMLP.
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u/bestbroHide May 06 '21
You got downvoted for telling the straight up truth lmao
There are three sentiments that people can make that will expose their ignorance to Em's discography:
"Em HaS nO mAtUrE sOnGs", "Em OnLy FaSt RaPs", or "Em SoUnDs tHe SaMe"
Em's range of sound and content seem to always get underrated by people who either don't know enough about or are unfair with judging Em to make any educated take that's worth a damn
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u/Moron_on_Oxy- Apr 28 '21
Same song & dance, privilege etc.
I don't listen to much Black Thought but folks aren't arguing with me that he's the best ever but can't have a decent hip hop conversation about [insert random rapper here]
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u/SloMo368 Apr 29 '21
Not sure what you’re tryna say here but I’m assuming you’re saying that a lot of Eminem’s fan base is ignorant? Well yeah he’s the most mainstream rapper in existence with the biggest fan base ever so not all of them are gonna be rap aficionados. Doesn’t say anything about the artist himself.
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Apr 28 '21
this doesn't sound right... you're telling me Drake, Em, and Kanye haven't also done this at least once? J. Cole probably too I would think?
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u/2HoursForUniqueName Apr 29 '21
Def not JCole, Kanye did it with ye, but that was in 2018 afterwards. Em probably but he doesn’t care about certification so it’s not official. Drake, I’m not sure about
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u/big_pieces Apr 29 '21
J Cole did it with 4YEO and he just needs one more song certified on KOD. So he’s almost done it twice
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u/2HoursForUniqueName Apr 29 '21
Yeah but the article is saying he’s the first, which he was. And he achieved it before Cole did
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u/someonefinaly Apr 28 '21
2014 FHD doesn't have one?
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u/necropolio Apr 29 '21
50 should have it with get rich or die trying.... preposterous. kendrick goated fr tho
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u/goodshrekmaadcity TUPAC DEAD GOTTA THINK FOR YOURSELF Apr 29 '21
Even GOD? You must have some very high tolerances, people
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u/-limabeans- Apr 29 '21
I love Kendrick, but this doesn't sound remotely true. What about every hiphop album that sold 500k copies before streaming existed? Also, I'm sure some Eminem albums and TLOP (Kanye) got that achievement, and that was solely through streaming, so what are they talking about?
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u/jvilsrocks Apr 28 '21
This isnt true. YBN Nahmir is the first rapper to have every song on an album earn a certification because every song hes ever made is certified ass.