Kendrick Lamar Comments On Going Gold With "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" Album

Kendrick Lamar has gotten his first Gold plaque, and it is cool for him to have gotten it with his first official studio album. "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" is actually the fastest selling rap album released in 2012...taking only 9 weeks to reach Gold status. For those that don't know, Gold certification is given to an album that sells more than 500,000 copies, and Kendrick's GKMC album is now at 506,000 sold and still selling. Congrats to him; he deserves it.

"It's crazy man, you think about the first time you actually start rapping," Kendrick told MTV News of good Kid, m.A.A.d city's success moments before he took the stage at Cali Christmas in Los Angeles. "That's what I think about every time I hear that, knowing how far I've got with it to actually have your own album in your hands and it's certified gold. It's a crazy feeling; it's a surreal moment in time that I'm in right now." (MTV)

Royce Da 5'9 Gets First Plaque: Bad Meets Evil EP Goes Gold

Royce Da 5'9 just got his first Plaque of his career; although it isn't a Platinum plaque, a Gold plaque is just as good. The Bad Meets Evil Ep, Hell: The Sequel (a duo album with eminem), was certified Gold last week, and that's Royce in the picture after being presented with the Plaque on Thursday. What this means is that the album has sold 500,000 copies. Of course, Eminem would get his own separate plaque as it is a duo album, but you have to know that those kind of things are not new to Em. Royce has been in the game since the late 90s, just as long as Eminem, or even longer, and has dropped 5 solo albums so far, but this the first certification on album sales he would be getting...I am happy for him.

If you don't know, he and Eminem became friends in 1997, after meeting at a concert where Royce was opening  for Usher. They started recording as a duo shortly afterwards. Royce Da 5'9 appeared on one of the tracks off em's first album (The Slim Shady LP, released in 1999), titled Bad Meets Evil. You have to know that Royce and Eminem go way back. Royce also wrote "The Message" for Dr Dre, which was the last track off Dre's 1999 album, The Chronic 2001.