Jun 19 2009
Hip-Hop Billboard 200 Update
With Black Eyed Peas releasing their album The E.N.D. this week, I was stuck with the decision of whether to put them on this list or not. I mean, many of us don’t consider them hip-hop, but then others who don’t listen to rap music, do consider them hip-hop. So since they’ve got that hip-hop swagg on em, I decided to include them in this list, which puts our genre back at the top of the music industry. Eminem, who we should get use to seeing in the top 10, is still sitting pretty in the top 3. 2 new releases made our top 5 list, in Mos Def’s The Ecstatic and D-Block’s no security. One more new release this week didn’t make it into the top, but DJ Quik & Kurupt released a duo album, that I had no idea they were even doing. You’d think if they had better marketing and promotion, that someone outside of the Golden State would know about these collaborations.
At any rate, here are your hip-hop albums in the top 100…
# 1 Black Eyed Peas -The E.N.D. 
# 3 Eminem- Relapse 
# 9 Mos Def - The Ecstatic 
# 40 D-Block -No Security 
# 40 Method Man & Redman - Blackout 2! 
Remaining Hip Hop Albums Within The Top 100
# 54 Rick Ross- Deeper Than Rap
# 61 DJ Quik & Kurupt- BlaQKout
# 67 Busta Rhymes- Back On My B.S.
# 74 Soulja Boy Tell’em- SouljaBoyTellem.com
# 79 Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III
# 81 Flo Rida- R.O.O.T.S.
# 82 T.I.- Paper Trail
# 84 Kanye West- 808’s & Heartbreak
#90 Jadakiss- The Last Kiss
