Ranking YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s First Week Album Sales
Over the past few years, Baton Rouge rapper YoungBoy NBA has steadily grown into a commercial force in…
Ranking Beyoncé’s First Week Album Sales
There are very few pop stars in the world who can boast of having a fanbase as devoted…
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Were the First Rap Artists to Win a Grammy Award
Hip hop has always had a contentious relationship with the Grammys. It dates back to when the first…
The 50 Greatest Rap Posse Cuts Of All Time
One of the many things that makes hip hop music so unique compared to other genres is the…
Ranking Lil Uzi Vert’s First Week Album Sales
Since his emergence as one of the leading SoundCloud rappers of his generation, Lil Uzi Vert has gone…
Ranking Pop Smoke’s First Week Album Sales
First XXXTentacion was gunned down in 2018. Then Nipsey got shot and Juice Wrld overdosed in 2019. Then…
Ranking Juice Wrld’s First Week Album Sales
Emerging in the late 2010s as one of the leading rappers of the emo rap and SoundCloud movement,…
Ranking Kehlani’s First Week Album Sales
Growing up in Oakland, California, Kehlani was introduced to legendary R&B and neo soul artists, like Lauryn Hill,…
Ranking Ty Dolla Sign’s First Week Album Sales
Since breaking out in the early 2010s, Ty Dolla Sign’s voice has become synonymous with dope R&B hooks…
Ranking PartyNextDoor’s First Week Album Sales
PartyNextDoor has long been the secret weapon in the OVO Sound camp. The Toronto singer, songwriter, rapper and…
Ranking XXXTentacion’s First Week Album Sales
XXXTentacion was a troubled but brilliant artist. There’s no denying that he had the innate talent for creating…
Ranking Frank Ocean’s First Week Album Sales
As enigmatic and reclusive as Frank Ocean can be, don’t get it twisted, the singer-songwriter is a powerful…
Ranking Ne-Yo’s First Week Album Sales
When Ne-Yo first debuted in 2006 with In My Own Words, he was an instant phenomenon in the…
Ranking Alicia Keys’ First Week Album Sales
With a recording career spanning the past two decades, Alicia Keys has been a staple voice in the…
Ranking Jhené Aiko’s First Week Album Sales
Over the past few years Jhené Aiko has slowly emerged a powerful commercial force in the music world,…
Ranking G-Eazy’s First Week Album Sales
G-Eazy’s major label debut album, These Things Happen, dropped in 2014, but the rapper had been grinding for…
Ranking Joey Badass’ First Week Album Sales
The time that Joey Badass allows himself to take in between albums is the ultimate testament to his…
The Biggest Hip Hop Album First Week Sales of 2022
After a spectacular 2021, which saw a blend of releases from high-profile artists (Drake, Kanye, J. Cole, Tyler)…
Ranking Usher’s First Week Album Sales
Some music fans may have moved on from Usher’s music, but the numbers don’t lie – the R&B…
The 40 Best Rappers of the 1990s
The 1990s was the peak golden age of hip hop music. Don’t get it twisted, each rap decade…
Ranking the 25 Best Lil Wayne Guest Verses of All Time
There hasn’t been another rapper quite like Lil Wayne. Starting out as a member of the Hot Boys,…
The 25 Best Rap Duos Of All Time
In recent years, there’s been a ongoing trend for big-name hip hop artists putting out a one-off collaborative…
The 50 Best Hip Hop Songs of the 2010s
Never has hip hop music been as varied and divergent as it was in the 2010s. Coming into…
Ranking the 18 Most Lyrical Drake Songs of All Time
When an artist becomes as big as Drake currently is – 11 number one albums and counting, he’s…
Ranking Roddy Ricch’s First Week Album Sales
Coming into the game off the strength of his debut commercial mixtape, Feed tha Streets, Compton rapper Roddy…
Raekwon on “Skew It on the Bar-B” was OutKast’s First Non-Dungeon Family Feature
When Antwan “Big Boi” Patton and André “André 3000” Benjamin were still two young rappers looking to get…
Ranking the 15 Best Lil Baby Guest Verses of All Time
Over the past few years Lil Baby has evolved from an up-and-coming Atlanta rapper into one of the…
Ranking Rihanna’s First Week Album Sales
Rihanna’s superstardom in the music world was pretty much instantaneous. Her debut album, Music of the Sun, was…
Ranking Moneybagg Yo’s First Week Album Sales
Moneybagg Yo has been grinding for a minute. It’s been over a decade since the Memphis rapper dropped…
The 50 Best Storytelling Rap Songs of All Time
It’s been an impressive journey from block parties and corner rap battles to mainstream multi-platinum hits, but hip-hop…
Ranking The Weeknd’s First Week Album Sales
Very few music fans could have predicted The Weeknd’s transformation into one of the world’s biggest pop stars…
The 50 Best Hip Hop Songs of the 1990s
The 1990s was a defining decade for hip hop music. The growing popularity of the genre, along with…
Ranking Chris Brown’s First Week Album Sales
People tend to forget how long Chris Brown has been in the music game for. He was just…
35 Hip Hop Albums with the Most Stacked Guest Features
One of the most unique things about hip hop music is that emphasis that is put on feature…
Ranking Kevin Gates’ First Week Album Sales
While J. Cole has been getting all the praise for going platinum with no features this past decade,…
Ranking Logic’s First Week Album Sales
Hip hop seems to have a love-him-or-hate-him relationship with Logic. But despite what you might think of his…
DJ Quik’s ‘Quik Is The Name’ Was Only Meant to be a Mixtape
When legendary rapper-producer DJ Quik dropped his debut album, Quik Is the Name, in January 1991, he had…
Big L’s “M.V.P.” Inspired Biggie’s “One More Chance / Stay with Me (Remix)”
If you were a rap fan back in 1995, particularly in New York, you would have heard the…
The 50 Best Hip Hop Remixes of All Time
While Pete Rock might have a problem with Puffy’s claim of inventing the hip hop remix, it’s not…
15 Rappers With the Most Number 1 Albums on the Billboard 200
Ever since The Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill became the first rap album to top the Billboard 200…