T.I. And Weezy Eye Multiplatinum, Hip-Hop Releases Quickly Fade Off Charts

Hip-Hop’s platinum reign is glaringly distant this week as only four rap releases charted onto Billboard’s Top 100.
Only three weeks in stores and T.I. is inches from nabbing his fifth platinum plaque with his latest release, The Paper Trail. Landing at no.3, Tip moves an additional 93, 427 units, bringing Trail’s total to 971, 067 copies sold according to Nielsen’s Soundscan.

Meanwhile, Lil Wayne is slowly, but surely making his way towards triple platinum status. This week, Tha Carter III rests at no. 13- selling 25, 384 sets. To date, the LP has scanned 2, 601, 685 copies.

Further down, The Recession is somehow being kind to Young Jeezy. Claiming the no. 18 slot, Jeezy’s third effort sells 20, 962 units. The album has sold 561, 561 copies to date.

One of Hip-Hop’s few Gold artists nowadays, The Game lands at no.28 with 16, 451 units sold last week. LAX’s grand total now tallies at 531, 853 copies sold.- Bruce Moses

Comment by Bap on October 30, 2008 at 10:36am: Just keepin shit foreal 100 these number show whats really up. lil wayne the man right now this year. T.I. and jeezy in my opinion are real close.

Comment by J dogg from the chi on October 30, 2008 at 2:28pm: ya boy sean, you trippin my nigga. you better pop that recession album back in and listen closely to the words. and what do you mean if everybody is broke why did they buy jeezys album. shit because real street niggas love that real street music, and this album is motivation for the rough times that america is going through. the recession is better than paper trail and the carter 3. lil wayne and t.i. attracts more of the younger generation and not more niggaz thats from the streets that was born and raised in the hood and really knows what hard times are all about. its a recession everybody broke, so i just came back to ''GIVE EVERYBODY HOPE''

Comment by Dutchboy on October 30, 2008 at 5:46pm: First and foremost lil wayne is 85% responsible for the of hip hop.. Cater 3 Hot Garbage Lil wayne possibly homo and of course Hot garbage......Paper trail is dat no doubt and deserves the numbers...Now my nigga Jeezy..The recession in my book Hands down Album of da year. If u cant relate to da recession u just out of touch...da recession touches everybody from da business moguls on wall street all the way down to the dope boys in da trap...T.I u must give him his props wit da feds all ova his he produced a fine piece of work that was totally different from vintage T.I notice there very few references n da whole cd... Ti second best album of da year...

Comment by Dutchboy on October 30, 2008 at 5:47pm: First and foremost lil wayne is 85% responsible for the of hip hop.. Cater 3 Hot Garbage Lil wayne possibly homo and of course Hot garbage......Paper trail is dat no doubt and deserves the numbers...Now my nigga Jeezy..The recession in my book Hands down Album of da year. If u cant relate to da recession u just out of touch...da recession touches everybody from da business moguls on wall street all the way down to the dope boys in da trap...T.I u must give him his props wit da feds all ova his he produced a fine piece of work that was totally different from vintage T.I notice there very few references n da whole cd... Ti second best album of da year...

Comment by BLACK DREAMS on October 31, 2008 at 1:47pm: FUCK ALL U NIGGAZ THAT DOUBT THE MY NIGGA JEEZY THE RECESSION GO HARDER THAT CARTER 3 N PAPER TRAIL SEE WAYNE N T.I GOT THAT FAN BASE ALL OVA THA WORLD JEEZY JUS GOT HIS PAPER TO PERFROM OVA SEAS BUT WHEN THE NEXT ALBUM DROP SOON WE GO GET ALLOT THAT BITCHES MONEY N TRIPLE PLATINUM

Comment by Reece513 on November 1, 2008 at 1:27am: Bra above me dont know wat the fuck he talkin bout.Jeezy had the hardest album out.Fuck it,It still is the hardest album out.And like always its the realest shit u eva gone here.You can take that album and play it all the way through.The carter 3 was commercial as fuck and papertrail was rushed.The nigga T.I. was talkin a whole bunch of dum shit on there.Shit we already heard execpt for a few songs.Im shocked at yaw niggas.I thought yall knew wat was real and wat wasnt.The Recession deserves to be triple platinum in my eyes.

Comment by that nigga on November 1, 2008 at 4:46pm: The album is a real album for the streets it just ain't for the commercial people but me personally I love it

Comment by Ackshon Jakson on November 2, 2008 at 11:56pm: everythang on dat recession im feelin except 4 dat circulate and wordplay. everythang else is dat real g shit.

Comment by adrian on November 3, 2008 at 5:38am: nigga u saying shit son...my nigga jeezy is the realest..so he keep it real all day...the recession is best album of the year...lil wayne or t.i anit got shit on my nigga.