Drake, Kendrick and Cole are gonna be the last class of good multi platinum selling rappers
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DrunkerThanAMotherfucker
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What album?
The new album isnt on iTunes?
DrunkerThanAMotherfucker
All Star
It is, though it was free.
"In his home country of the United States, Coloring Book debuted at number 8 on the Billboard 200, with 38,000 equivalent album units.[20] The mixtape has generated 57.3 million streams in the first week, making it the first release to chart on the Billboard 200, solely from the streams."
We don't know really how well Chance would sell. Surf was downloaded on Itunes 600,000 times in its first week last year, before Apple moved to a streaming service. Really hard to gauge how popular Chance is, but he's got a very dedicated fan base and is a celebrity in Chicago.
JetLife
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Do you categorize him as a rapper completely? I really don't, but if you do ...
... it looks like the Top Tier category is essentially
- Back to Back Platinum albums (to show it's not a one hit/album wonder)
- A World Tour (broad audience)
- Default Nominations in all the award shows (e.g. whenever they release something, it's always nominated, aka everyone recognizes they're a name in the game)
Once he hits that, then he's definitively top tier and did it without a co-sign. If so, he'd be the first to do that that since Cash Money?
DrunkerThanAMotherfucker
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Wiz Khalifa
JetLife
/ SOHH /
He doesn't have platinum albums, much less consecutive ones?
I think he falls into the category of popular rapper, but not top tier. If he has a big crossover single, people will pay attention. But people don't check for his albums like that if he doesn't have a monster lead/crossover/pop single.
DrunkerThanAMotherfucker
All Star
Thought you were asking about rappers that hit the most popular echelon of rap without a co-sign. Wiz is the most notable recent example.
Nah I don't consider him a rapper completely but he's borderline. I just throw his name in the ring when platinum talk comes up
Black_Panther_JS
Superstar
there prolly aint gonna be no more multi platinum rappers
Agree very much with OP the game is done and tbh I don't see any new talent getting to that drizzy Cole Dot Level
I just got back from the Beyonce concert in Detroit. When that mofo Khaled played that new song with Drake the crowd went 
. im sitting there like
but man that hateful feeling only lasted so long. i could not deny the energy. i got up and started too. and with that said hip hop dead
. im sitting there like but man that hateful feeling only lasted so long. i could not deny the energy. i got up and started too. and with that said hip hop dead