2008 Round-up

2008 was a good year for some and not so good for others, lets recap. November of 2007 Jay-Z dropped American Gangster (that debut at 1 on Billboards selling 425,861 copies) Jay set the tone for 2008. Its safe to say 2008 was good to Jay he was the first rapper to ever headline Glastonbury Festival, despite critics and rockers not approving Jay showed up and showed out. The other Mr. Carter, Dwayne that is (Lil Wayne) hit the summer of 2008 with his smash Lollipop ft. Static Major and claimed 2008. Lil Wayne's Carter III was his biggest debut and musics highest numbers of the year. Wayne sold 2.883 million copies as of today (Dec 31,2008). After 6 solo albums, Wayne accomplished more with this album than some legends in their career. Speaking of 6 Atlanta's born T.I dropped his 6th studio album "The Paper Trail" selling 568,000 copies in his 1st week. T.I showed us that you cant hold a good man down. After legal issues and the death of his best friend. Tip turned tragedy into triumph. Jay, Wayne and Tip were not the only rappers 2008 was good to Kanye, Luda, Plies and Fabolous also enjoyed 2008.

Now the Ugly, I hate to do it but some didn't have a good a year. First up, St. Louisian Nelly dropped his highly anticipated Brass knuckles, While we all held our breathe for this album it was Nelly's worst yeah WORST!! Before the album dropped Nelly dropped just about the whole album searching for a 1. Unlike his previous projects this one did not stand up to the hype. From Nelly bad mistakes to Young Berg bad comments. Young Berg after some foolish comments, and bad album sales, Young Berg was slapped up twice. You would think after taking a beat down in The D, Berg should of learned his lesson but NO! He received a slap down from Maino. Berg was not the only clown on some fuckery in 08, his classmate Soulja Fool (I mean Boy) stole the Bird walk, but unlike Crank Dat Dat no one cared to flock around with him. After Cranking out a whole 43,000 units in his first week and landing him at 40 on Billboard's 200. Well Soulja cranked out a vlog claiming that Nas killed hip hop. You read it right Nas. While riding Wayne's dick harder than Karrine Steffans, Soulja also claimed that all a rapper have to do is say something like "I'm the best rapper" and we all would be dumb enough to go along with it. Well seeing that Soulja has used up about 13 minutes of his 15 already. I'm not holding my breathe on a Soulja Boy, Nas beef. 2008, the economy was in a recession that reached album sales.

Heres a list of some rappers who felt the 2008 recession.

1. Soulja Boy Tell'em "ISouljaBoyTellem"
2. Young Berg "Look what you made me"
3.) Shawty Lo "Units in the City"
4.) Rocko "Self-made"
5.) Jim Jones "Harlem's American Gangster"
6.) Nelly "Brass knuckles"
7.) Trina "Still da Baddest"
8.) Lil Mama "The voice of young people"