Report: Kanye outselling Fiddy at Walgreens
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007This in from Billboard.com:
It looks like 50 Cent is headed for retirement, if store reports continue to trend the way they were by mid-afternoon today (Sept. 11). 50 Cent had told SOHH.com that he would quit the rap game if his new G-Unit/Interscope album, “Curtis,” was outsold by Kanye West’s Def Jam set “Graduation,” both of which were released today.
Seriously, who cares?
For the past few years, the hip-hop nation has turned into a colony of SoundScan nerds. Dudes post up an artist’s numbers on chat rooms, and then loudly debate whether that artist has fallen off or is blowing up — to the exclusion of everything else (unless someone gets arrested with a gun or weed in their SUV). In a recent interview, Akon says he and 50 Cent are SSK, or SoundScan Killas, like they’re in a gang. How lame is that — “SoundScan Killas”?
No wonder hip-hop is dead. Instead of debating record sales like an accountant, why not debate the quality of the music? As Evidence of Dilated Peoples put it recently, don’t count the numbers like Rain Man.
