Sales of All Ludacris's Albums

Since we are on the subject of Ludacris's Ludaversal album, I decided to put up sales of all his past albums. He has seven studio albums, and four of them went multi-platinum. Check them out below.

Back for the First Time (2000)- 3,100,000

Word of Mouf (2001)- 3,700,000

Chicken-n-Beer (2003)- 2,000,000

The Red Light District (2004)- 2,100,000

Release Therapy (2006)- 1,300,000

Theater of the Mind (2008)- 700,000

Battle of the Sexes (2010)- 550,000

Big K.R.I.T Reflects on All His Projects

Up until I read this interview of Big K.R.I.T, i never knew he had put out so much work. Of cos he has just one album out (and is about to drop another), but he sure has a nice catalog of mixtapes. In his recent interview with NahRight, the Mississippi rapper reflects on all the projects (album and mixtapes) he has put out, and speaks on why each one is special in its on way.

"K.R.I.T. Wuz Here was my favorite mixtape in the sense of my hunger, because it was like, 'This is either going to work or we’re going back home. And that’s why it had so many songs on it, so many different sounds. It had a West Coast feel, the 93 ’til Infinity chop in it with me and Curren$y, and it was all that only for a project. I would say Return of 4Eva was musically my favorite one based off of how I sampled, what I sampled, the amount of singing, and the subject matter, from 'Free My Soul' to 'Another Naive Individual Glorifying Greed and Encouraging Racism. 4EvaNaDay was my most scientific one. I was very proud of that project, because I was able to not stay in the typical lane of making music, but to actually try to make a storybook in itself. And, make every song go together, from what time of day you should play it and how that time of day feels in the warmth of the music and the color hues, and even how I’m rapping and what I’m rapping about. Live From The Underground is a milestone forever because it’s my first album and I produced it all, man. So I could never downplay that. It has its own position in my career because it definitely did a lot more numbers than people expected it to do, and it gave people what I told them I was going to do, which was never leave the underground, and rap about what I want to rap about. 'I’ll feature the people I want to feature,' and that’s what I did. People may not have expected what it was compared to my mixtapes and [may not] feel it lived up to them, but me knowing what I went through to put it out, and then some of the songs on there. Like, the record with B.B. King will stand the test of time. King Remembered In Time is its own entity. That’s me coming back from the album and tour like, 'Hey, let’s do this.' And now we here, man. And with Cadillactica, it’s going to be its own monster. And I think people are going to be able to tell with every song."

Lil Boosie Says He Wrote Over a Thousand Songs While Incarcerated

Well I don't know ow this is possible, but during his Conference earlier today, Lil Boosie let the world know he had written 1,118 songs while locked up. He was in jail for almost five years...that's about 1, 825. I don't want to believe he was writing songs every other day while in prison. If he said a hundred songs, then I might believe. 

Read more on this below...

"Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper Lil Boosie and Trill Entertainment held a Boosie Speaks press conference today (March 10) to update fans and the media on the status of the newly-released wordsmith The conference was attended by Bun B, Jeezy, and Webbie, who all spoke briefly on Boosie before the rapper appeared on stage.

Following dialogue from the trio of artists present at the press conference and Boosie’s mother, Boosie’s team of lawyers offered an update on his legal standing. According to his lawyers, the rapper has served all his required time and could possibly be on probation for up to four years. They revealed that Boosie also has a routine hearing in court scheduled for this Thursday, March 13.

Upon making his entrance, Boosie informed those watching that he wrote 1,118 songs while in prison and even has a record for pop star Justin Bieber. The rapper appeared confident about his return to music, stating that the rap game is wide open and ready to be taken over.

“As for the rap game, I feel like the music I got, the rap game wide open for me to take over,” Boosie said. “I feel like what I been hearing these last three, four days on the radio and stuff is different from my music. Like I said, it’s different from my music. And different brings greatness. So, I just feel I stand alone in the music industry to tell you the truth.” (HHDX)

T.I Wants to Bring Back Gangsta Rap

In the mid 2000's, T.I blew up doing Trap Music (Southern version of Gangsta Rap). The sub-genre of hip hop was still very popular at the time, and he enjoyed huge success. But the lifestyle he rapped about, which he also lived, got him in trouble in the late 2000's. He went to prison twice in the space of 4 years, and he came back and dropped his 8th album, Trouble Man- It was more of a an album detailing his troubles, but not celebrating his past gangsta life. He is currently not as popular as he once was, and I guess he has gotten bored with the direction his rap career is going, and has recently let the world know that his next rap album would be all GANGSTA! I don't know if that's a wise decision, being that he is all corporate now, with his TV show (Family Hustle) and all. But it's life, and he only got ONE.




below are his words on this, from excerpts of a recent interview he had with XXL Magazine.




"People forgot how fun gangster sh*t is. People forgot how exciting it is to really live on the dangerous side of life. Just people forgot the feeling that you got when you watchedBoyz In The Hood for the first time. Or when you heard All Eyez On Me for the first time. Right now, music is going in a different direction and it is in a different place. I salute and celebrate that path as well. However, there's a place for the story that needs to be told from our perspective." 

Bun B Speaks on Trinidad James New York Comments

Rap music has always been an ego thing, so it is no surprise that a little tension is sparked between rappers every now and then. The Kendrick Lamar King of New York line (which I feel was very disrespectful to the region) created a lot of tension a couple of months ago when Big Sean's Control dropped. I am not sure if Trinidad James made his own disrespectful remarks about New York from the heart, or he just wanted the result of what his words would bring- Attention. Anyway, he said...






“I remember when New York ran this shit, dog... What happened? I remember when New York rap was the shit. And us in the South, us bammas, we was like ‘what the fuck’ and we just did our own thing. But now we run y’all musically." (Comment made during a concert in Brooklyn, New York)










Maino and a couple of New York artist didn't find his remarks so funny, but I really respect how Bun D (a Southern Legend) addressed the issue.



"Hip Hop left New York in the late '70s, early '80s and went out to the world and I came back," Bun B said. "I threw Hip Hop out into the world in 1992 and [A$AP Rocky] came back. So, once you give it to the world, when it comes back to you, you can't be mad at how it comes back to you because you sent it out there in the first place. We can't be critical, too critical of situations because we have to keep everything in its proper perspective. Hip Hop started in New York, so if you're an emcee...you're already trying to be like New York, so it don't make sense for somebody to say New York tryin' to be like them. We're all students of the culture. We're all taking in information and giving it back out. It's just starting to look different than maybe it looked originally. It's starting to sound different than maybe it sounded originally. I can understand his viewpoint. There's some validity to that, but that's happened in Hip Hop before, where other regions have been so enamored by what's happening from here, that we want to be a part of it. You can look at Hip Hop fashion today and everybody in Hip Hop really dressing like Europeans. Nobody's talkin' about that. You're either dressing like a European or a Japanese person. We sent Hip Hop to Europe and Japan and that's how it came back. Now, we're taking notes from their influence and giving it right back to somebody else. That's how it's supposed to be. If you're in Texas and all you doin' and all you know and everything in your life is just Texas, then you've blocked yourself out of a lot of great things in this world. That goes for every region. Hip Hop started out as a regional thing. It was very segregated. Like everything else in this world that involves segregation and division, we've got to tear that down."  (MTV)


Nuff said!