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Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne becomes the fastest-selling rap album in 2011, selling 436,000 copies its first week, beating Lupe Fiasco's third studio album Lasers. It is also the third rap album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. [citation needed] Rolling Stone names Eminem "the King of Hip Hop". [citation needed]
R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Artist(s) Rap Albums Artist(s) Refs. January 1 Michael: Michael Jackson: Pink Friday: Nicki Minaj [3] January 8 Recovery: Eminem [4] January 15 Recovery: Eminem [5] January 22 Pink Friday: Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Nicki Minaj [6] January 29 [7] February 5 [8] February 12 [9] February 19 [10] February 26 [11] March 5 Recovery ...
The album became the top selling debut album for any artist in 2010 and had the highest sales week for any debut album in the 2010s [72] and featured Lil Wayne, Kanye West, [73] and Jay Z. [74] Drake began his Away from Home Tour on September 20, 2010, in Miami, Florida, performing at 78 shows over four different legs. [75]
As the most sampled artist in rap history, Brown laid the break beat foundation for hip-hop. Even in ’74, when critics questioned whether the Godfather of Soul still had it, he delivered the ...
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper.Regarded as one of the most influential hip-hop artists of his generation, Lamar was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music, becoming the first musician outside of the classical and jazz genres to receive the honor.
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As part of our 35th anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at 7. From Queens, New York, here are Run-DMC. Hip-hop had to go through rock in ...
Lil Wayne is claimed to be "one of the most influential artists in the 21st century" and is many times called as "the greatest rapper of his generation", as well as one of the greatest rappers of all time. [211] [212] His musical style and usage of autotune influenced modern sound of hip-hop music and its subgenres, especially the development ...