List Of Every Rapper In Hip Hop History With A Platinum Album.

[RTF]

Curtis definitely went platinum in the US. Did 600k first week.

Also - RIAA is based on what's shipped to stores. Not what's sold in stores. So if you've Soundscanned 800k most likely RIAA has you at platinum. But I think you must apply for the certification.

 

[RTF]

i'm not gonna look up every album.... but scroll up to one of my previous posts.. there is an EXACT process to being certified... and if you are not submitting, asking them to recalculate, you'll never be certified



More JADAKISS KISS OF DEATH April 06, 2004 March 11, 2005 INTERSCOPE Standard GOLD ALBUM SOLO


More JADAKISS KISS THA GAME GOODBYE August 07, 2001 September 21, 2001 RUFF RYDERS / INTERSCOPE Standard GOLD ALBUM SOLO




so technically he's still at gold... SOUNDSCAN AND RIAA ARE TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT COMPANIES... they do NOT share info or use the other's numbers at all

i'm sure you're correct... and he has gone plat..

BUT unless Jada sent off the paperwork to the RIAA to have them recalculate the numbers from today, he'll never see that plaque or be certified plat

which makes me wonder, since it's only 400-500 bucks, why more artists don't apply and get their certs (like a coli nikka ) so they can brag about being platinum

Yep this is what I thought. I remember back in the days I saw Soundscans of 2 Jadakiss albums and both were about the 900k mark. If Jada applied for RIAA certificatoin again those would be platinum.

 

[Stuntone]

So basically only 40 Hiphop have more Platinum Albums than SILK The Shocker??


It's amazing that Port of Miami, Deeper Than Rap and Teflon Don haven't went Plat. CACs don't really fukk with Ross, but he has about 5 Ghetto Plat Albums.

Too Short owes a lot his album sales to the South. Too Short and the West help berth our sound for real. We was on Short Dawg hard.

HOV has been a lucky man. Big and Pac left a major vacancy in Rap. Found Kanye at the right time, got Nas to light his azz up and pulled the MJ retirement/comeback scam. Salute.

Lil Wayne could've had more if he would've stayed focus and grinded after Carter III.

Juvenile, my dog with 3. Tracy Mcgrady of hiphop. For a few years he was amongst HIP HOP elite.

Glad my dawg B.G got him one. Baby thru him a big bone by throwing Bling Bling on there. He might have went Gold w/o it.

Lil Troy might be the most lucky and least likely to be on the list. He put together an Htown All Star team for one song that's blow up like crazy. Yungsta was at the highest level you could get to at the time.

 

[ThaRealness]

Ja got more platinum albums than 50

UGK dont have any,yet 8 ball & the ghetto boys have 1

Beastie boys got 7

They had that punk crossover appeal

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

So basically only 40 Hiphop have more Platinum Albums than SILK The Shocker??


It's amazing that Port of Miami, Deeper Than Rap and Teflon Don haven't went Plat. CACs don't really fukk with Ross, but he has about 5 Ghetto Plat Albums.

Too Short owes a lot his album sales to the South. Too Short and the West help berth our sound for real. We was on Short Dawg hard.

HOV has been a lucky man. Big and Pac left a major vacancy in Rap. Found Kanye at the right time, got Nas to light his azz up and pulled the MJ retirement/comeback scam. Salute.

Lil Wayne could've had more if he would've stayed focus and grinded after Carter III.

Juvenile, my dog with 3. Tracy Mcgrady of hiphop. For a few years he was amongst HIP HOP elite.

Glad my dawg B.G got him one. Baby thru him a big bone by throwing Bling Bling on there. He might have went Gold w/o it.

Lil Troy might be the most lucky and least likely to be on the list. He put together an Htown All Star team for one song that's blow up like crazy. Yungsta was at the highest level you could get to at the time.

I don't know about LUCK with jay

Everyone benefitted off the number 1 and 2 rap artists suddenly being gone in 6 months time


But as he says "jigga held you down 6 summers"

From 1996-2003 he released a full album every single year

2 years off for retirement. Came back in 06 and 07 with back to backs

Then 09 and 2013 were the last two



But that first run. 7 albums in 7 years. Has and will never be done again.

Also, every album he ever released after vol 1, has charted number 1 in the country





That ain't no luck. You don't get lucky that many times

 

[Truth Hurts]

Rick Ross loses again

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Bone & Too Short's 6 is most impressive imo. Everyone else with such figures are very much popstars/pop icons.

Bone in the mid '90s were popstars.

"The Crossroads" was the no.1 song in the country and beat some Beatles record or something.

I mean, people forget about how large they were from '94 - '97

They worked with Big, Pac, Pun, Mariah Carey, and performed at the MTV Awards.

They were the biggest group in Hip-Hop by a mile, even though most people only remember Wu & Outkast

 

[OHSNAP!]

Bone in the mid '90s were popstars.

"The Crossroads" was the no.1 song in the country and beat some Beatles record or something.

I mean, people forget about how large they were from '94 - '97

They worked with Big, Pac, Pun, Mariah Carey, and performed at the MTV Awards.

They were the biggest group in Hip-Hop by a mile, even though most people only remember Wu & Outkast

And they SOLD their shyt, big fanbase across the entire country

E1999 was one of THE most anticipated albums ever (not just hiphop)

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Rick Ross loses again

Icp got better record sales despite 0 radio play

 

[OHSNAP!]

Icp got better record sales despite 0 radio play

But they appeared on WWF and WCW TV and those were watched by tens of millions of people

 

[Master Teacher]

its a lot of nikkaz missing from that list

 

[High quality poster]

Pretty sure Curtis went plat. Theres a few others as well.

 

[nieman]

I don't know about LUCK with jay

Everyone benefitted off the number 1 and 2 rap artists suddenly being gone in 6 months time


But as he says "jigga held you down 6 summers"

From 1996-2003 he released a full album every single year

2 years off for retirement. Came back in 06 and 07 with back to backs

Then 09 and 2013 were the last two



But that first run. 7 albums in 7 years. Has and will never be done again.

Also, every album he ever released after vol 1, has charted number 1 in the country





That ain't no luck. You don't get lucky that many times

Busta did like 7 albums in 7 years

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Busta did like 7 albums in 7 years

no he didn't

from 1996-2002 he released 6 albums.. he dropped his first 3, took a year off, then dropped his next 3.. and in his whole career, only has 1 number 1 album

jigga dropped straight through that whole time, 5 number 1s just in that time

 

[nieman]

no he didn't

from 1996-2002 he released 6 albums.. he dropped his first 3, took a year off, then dropped his next 3.. and in his whole career, only has 1 number 1 album

jigga dropped straight through that whole time, 5 number 1s just in that time

I did say "like" and Jay-Z didn't hold you down for 6 summers; he was releasing fall 4th qtr...and a couple of September drops. He barely made consecutive numerical years, since one was released a few days before the ball drop. Of course, that would've made 2 for 2000, but most people don't even count Dynasty as a Jigga album. That ish was a compilation, so that put him in Busta category.

The thing is, Jay-Z will always be the safe choice. White folk not into rap will say they like Jay-Z, and that's where the #1s come from. Hell, he has a Grammy nod for damn near all, even the trash, which doesn't mean much. I agree that dropping an album every year is impressive, especially during a time when you had to work your albums so 2yrs was pretty standard. But in a way, it also he;ped push music more to the fast food variety that it is now.

I think a real discussion would be who had the best rap album each year.