TDE artist Kendrick Lamar’s debut major label album, good kid, m.A.A.d city (Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope) has officially been certified gold, achieving sales in excess of 500,000 copies as of December 13th, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. Released October 22nd, the album received praise from
critics around the country even as it debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 album chart and #1 on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Rap Albums charts. good kid, m.A.A.d city earned the highest first-week album sales from a male hip-hop artist in 2012 (overall, behind only Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded).On the album’s “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” Lamar raps: “Look inside of my soul and you can find gold.” With his heartfelt and very personal good kid, m.A.A.d city, Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar did just that.
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That’s a good look for him. Lyricism.
WHY DIDNT U MAKE A POST WHEN 2 CHAINZ WENT GOLD? TRUUUUUUUUUUUU
Who give’s a fuck about two chainz.
thats wassup man, congrats to him, now lets get an ab-soul album that goes platinum!
It should be doubble platinum. Way better then some albums commin out today.
Bought meek mills album, bought Kendricks album the following week. No comparison, GKMC is a classic. Im still bumping it in my car. I can see this album going platinum which is a huge accomplishment for a rapper who really isn’t in the lime light.
Ab-soul, I’m gonna have to look that guy up.
Ab-soul – Terrorist Threats
Ab-Soul Outro on Section80.
OBVIOUSLY 500,000 PEOPLE DO RICH
this shit was wack. one of the worst albums of the year.
It should really be platinum by now. I was expecting it to go gold soon enough. People are STILL sleeping on hip hop.
He deserves it one of the few new cats that’s actually trying to be lyrical be a real MC. I’m mad people bought more Nick Garbaj albums.
Ayo……. got some words…….. got some words……. when we talk great albums of 2012, I never hear Big K.R.I.T. I mean da boy shit is a classic.
I bought KRIT’s album, but it wasn’t his best work. Some of the mixtapes he put out before were better.
hip hop is selling again dats gud
MMG Lawse!!
overrated
fall back….who putting that much creativity in their music??!
he got t.i., wayne, n 3000 respecting his shit. lupe too…tell me who doesn’t besides u
Lyricism wins for a change!……….
well deserved. “did somebody say domino’s?”
I like Section 80 better than this his album. His bonus tracks were better than the original album in my opinion. Meek Mill album go hard, its personal, deep, and tells a story.
Section 80 was some deep shit but d connectivity created in dis album dat relates to one single story from all d songs just wasn’t in section 80 it sounded more lyk a mixtape if u askd me @porQ