From beyond the grave, Pac is still outselling today’s rappers. After dropping yet another album, during the busiest week for major hip hop releases, Pac is still outselling all of them. While the final sales figures for “Better Dayz” are not in just yet, they are around 400,000 right now. That is good enough for number 2 on the Billboard charts, behind Shania Twain…
Eminem is still representing strong on the charts. For the fifth week in a row, “Lose Yourself” is the number one song. While “8 Mile” is number three on the Top 200 chart and “The Eminem Show” is still pretty high at number eleven. Meanwhile, Talib Kweli debuted “Quality” at the number 21 spot. Fat Joe is quickly losing his newfound platinum status as he has fallen to the 84th spot in just his second week for his new offering, “Loyalty”…
I got my grubby little mitts on a copy of Nas’ “God’s Son” this weekend, a few notes to pass your way. As I mentioned last week, Nas included “Thugz Mansion” on his album as well, however, it is different from the version that appeared on 2Pac’s album. The version that Nas uses has two of his verses and only one of Pac’s, it is the opposite on Pac’s album. I’ll say this about the album, it is dope. Even though I have only listened to it once, I am liking it more than “Stillmatic.” Oh, and Em’s production, ill…
