Ja, Busta, Nelly, Fab, Ludacris etc Crazy how Some Rappers Went Plat + Multi Plat Off The Strength Of Singles While Making Frisbees For Albums…

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Ja was going triple off of two or three big songs with NOBODY fukking with the actual album

Same with Luda, Fab, Chingy etc

Crazy how we used to pay like 17.99 for an album because we liked a music video or two

 

[Deltron]

you sure about that?

Nelly got 2 diamond albums


single cds were still a thing, so if they only fukked with the single, people bought that

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

you sure about that?

Yes. Buying habits were different. If your single was big enough the albums sales would reflect such. Singles weren’t always readily available as the album. New albums especially were stocked in the front of retailers.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

They made better albums than Gnauze

 

[Groundworks]

More bullshyt threads. Ja got a solid 3 album run. VVV, Rule 3:36, Pain is love. Ja Rule was EVERYWHERE. Worldwide my nikka. People were fukking with his albums heavy. I was living in that time, experiencing it first hand. You can't tell me shyt.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

More bullshyt threads. Ja got a solid 3 album run. VVV, Rule 3:36, Pain is love. Ja Rule was EVERYWHERE. Worldwide my nikka. People were fukking with his albums heavy. I was living in that time, experiencing it first hand. You can't tell me shyt.

I have never…Ever…EVER been anywhere and heard nikkax playing a fukkin Ja Rule album…Ever!

“A Solid 3 Album Run”

HOLY shyt

 

[YakSpiller]

Busta Rhymes is the best example of this.

He doesn’t have one classic album but has a ton of great hit singles.

 

[FTBS]

Most high selling albums were carried by a song or two. Thats literally the point if singles...to make you interested in the album. You couldnt just pull up a song and listen to it on your phone whenever you wanted. Its funny how access alters perspective.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Ain’t no way you dropping a diamond or multi platinum album back then with “nobody” fukking with the album…the first two Nelly albums had 4 or 5 singles a piece released from them, and shyt like Luv’n Me that were albums cuts that might as well been singles …to get an album cycle that long for the label to work that many singles the album had to have traction

Stick ‘em Up and Catch Up by Luda weren’t singles and get played in the club TO THIS DAY

Only person I say this applies to is maybe Fab…and he was mainly topping off at gold anyway

 

[Sugarbush]

Busta Rhymes is the best example of this.

He doesn’t have one classic album but has a ton of great hit singles.

ELE

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Ain’t no way you dropping a diamond or multi platinum album back then with “nobody” fukking with the album…the first two Nelly albums had 4 or 5 singles a piece released from them, and shyt like Luv’n Me that were albums cuts that might as well been singles …to get an album cycle that long for the label to work that many singles the album had to have traction

Stick ‘em Up and Catch Up by Luda weren’t singles and get played in the club TO THIS DAY

Only person I say this applies to is maybe Fab…and he was mainly topping off at gold anyway

Luv’n Me was a great song but time is on my side considering none of those albums have been celebrated since they were released all those years ago. They all feel in the category of ok AT BEST

 

[Saint1]

Nelly isn't one of these.
His first album had a multiple hits. Was a good album for the most part. Ride wit' me had a comeback in the later 2010s and is basically a classic jam now.
White girls 30+ love that song


Busta, Fab, chingy though


No replay because they were carried by beats. No song writing ability. By the second verse you've heard the whole song but it goes on for 2-3 mins.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Thats like 95% of rappers in the 2000's

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Luv’n Me was a great song but time is on my side considering none of those albums have been celebrated since they were released all those years ago. They all feel in the category of ok AT BEST

Oh you mean rap nerd acclaim? Yeah that’s a different story

Thought you meant real life

 

[Goat poster]

"Nobody was fukking with that album that went triple platinum"
- Th Th theColi.com