@StillNotSoft I never said that hype and death
didnt help his sales, or else i wouldnt have linked an article that had information about biggie selling well after he died now would i?
but i mean it was already obvious from the start that theres a chance that biggie sold that well with life after death because he died, because
it was released weeks after he died, so we didnt need to see an article to realize that which is why i wasnt embarrassed to link it. but all eyez on me came out before pac died and did sell before he died too but i had to make a point that the sales skyrocketed after he died as well as about how well don killuminati sold even months after he died. and i was also trying to get the point across that pac was the only one who really in all honesty from the looks of things needed controversy and death to sell well and/or better because like i said earlier, not one single pac album received any certifications from the riaa before spring 1995, and late '94/early 95 was the time that the beef/huge controversy started. and, like i said a biggie album
did receive a certification before 1995 or before the quad studio shooting on november 30th, 1994. ready to die was certified gold on november 16, 1994. by the time pac received any certifications for any of his albums, he had already gotten shot on november 30th, 1994, started the beef with biggie and bad boy, and had gone to jail, and did interviews from jail, not to mention also trying to beat up allen hughes, the director from menace II society in 1994 as well. so from the very beginning i was trying to get a point across, that death/controversy helped pac's sales just as much and possibly (and definitely) more than it helped biggie.
and lets not act like 1st week sales, really matter in the grand scheme of things, especially seeing as how ready to die went gold on november 16, 1994, 2 months after its release in september of '94 and then double platinum less than a year later, and lets not act like the already legendary death row, with all of its elite/legendary producers and workers in the industry (dr. dre
from NWA, dj pooh etc) didnt help snoop get those sales or anything
so i guess according to those same mathematics all eyez on me should be at the same level or above 15 million, but in reality it just certified diamond this year. after all that alleged legal trouble "preventing" AEOM from reaching diamond status, it still is only at or around the same level as LAD.
First of all, biggie has 6 albums (including greatest hits and notorious soundtrack and these need to be taken into consideration for overall sales), 7 including the junior mafia one (which went gold btw (check riaa.com) and thug life couldnt and still hasnt managed to do this) so i guess those so called "mathematics" that you tried to use dont really work that much now do they? and concerning ready to die: really now? so what about all those people that bought ready to die before biggie died which led to ready to die being certified double platinum (2,000,000 copies) in 1995? guess they dont exist and those sales never happened huh?
and just a heads up biggie had a greatest hits album too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(The_Notorious_B.I.G._album) ...so i guess no one really
has to buy his other albums now do they?
btw im aware that he had a greatest hits album that went diamond, but if you really knew your facts, youd know that album, which was released in 1998, didnt go diamond until 2011, a full 13 years later after its release, so i guess the sales of that album didnt deter his other sales
too much now did it, especially seeing as how the greatest hits album is a double album, meaning that the sales figure for the riaa certifications are doubled, so it really only sold 5 million ....13 years later. and lets not disregard the fact that life after death went diamond in january 2000, not even a full 3 years later after it was released. life after death went diamond in 2 years and 10 months, all eyez on me was released in february of 1996 and his greatest hits album wasnt released until november of '98, so people had a full 2 years and 9 months to buy all eyez on me and his other albums before the greatest hits album came out. and people
did buy all eyez on me too, because all eyez on me was certified 9x platinum in june of '98,
before the greatest hits album came out, which was released in november of '98 like i already mentioned. and yet, it still couldnt go diamond huh? not even in the 2 year and 9 month long span it had before the greatest hits album came out, and still, even after all those years of the alleged legal trouble "preventing" AEOM from going diamond, it only sits at diamond level, which was just achieved this year ....life after death went diamond in
2 years and 10 months.
as a logical person, i realize that it is impressive LAD went diamond first, cause like i said (if we're still using the same "logic" here that pac's album(s), specifically all eyez on me, didnt sell better and/or go diamond cause of how many albums he had and because of his greatest hits album) pac's greatest hits album didnt come out until november of '98, a whole 2 years and 9 months after all eyez on me, and AEOM still couldnt manage to go diamond before that. ....life after death went diamond in 2 years and 10 months (like i already said). and 2pacalypse now, and strictly 4 my nikkaz were not even close in popularity to all eyez on me. pac even basically said this himself. "and im just startin" .... so i dont think those other albums really detered his sales of all eyez on me like i already said, cause i mean he completely disregards all of his other albums by only mentioning the sales of all eyez on me (his highest selling album) and comparing those sales to biggies only album (at the time) and saying "and im just startin" which is why he happens to not mention in the video that 2pacalypse now, thug life, and strictly 4 my n.i.g.g.a.z. combined were not even "barely" touching 2 million at all. you say/imply that you cant or shouldnt compare sales of an artist that only has "2" albums to sales of an artist (pac) who has 12 albums, but it seems that according to pac, alot of those albums dont even really exist. ....
("and im just startin")
(note: i am aware that he may be talking about that he's only just starting with all eyez on me sales because it was released in february of '96 and that interview was done in may '96 i believe, but he still is not making himself very clear and is making it sound like he could mean hes just starting in the rap game period, and one of the reasons for that would be because he doesnt mention the sales of his other albums but only compares his highest selling (and his 4th album, 5th including thug life) album's sales to the sales of biggies only album at the time, thus his logic is about as good as that of his stans/fans)
its funny how pac stan(s) will say that pac sold more overall but then when you try to compare biggies album sales to pac's, theyre like ...u cant compare the sales of an artist who only has 2 albums to the sales of an artist that has 12!!! ...wheres the logic in that?
lol @ you for acting like you somehow "won" or something, you lost a long time ago so ...
i've heard so many different stories about that pic,but I think ur right the pic is real,REALER THEN PIGGIE EVER WAS!!!!!
lol was laughing at the shyt myself. RIP to that level of Hip hop which we have never seen again 
...we both agree some hype and death helped they album sales....neither was doin Bone Thugs,Mc Hammer numbers without some manufactured hype and controversy...lets not act like Biggie was snoop out the gate,nikka was doin less than E40 the gawd the first week until that NY hype train came along praying they had a answer to Snoop and Deathrow
?
....we gon compare the sales of a nikka who got two albums to choose from against a nikka who got 12 viable options to choose from
fail, nice try though.