I was off track then and trying to find it. That was a hit and miss." More broadly, Dre explained, "That point of my life, musically, it was just off balance. Plus the single 'Been There, Done That' was cool, but it was taking away from the gangster style that people wanted." Himself commenting on the album, Dre remarked, "It was just okay. They weren't looking for a compilation album. The Glove, among the album's coproducers, reasoned, "People were upset because they wanted a 'Dr. Nonetheless, quite unlike Dre's prior album- The Chronic, released in December 1992 as Dre's debut solo album and Death Row Records' first album-Dre's new offering, not a standout, received mixed reviews and lukewarm appraisals. The 1996 album's first single, a Dre solo, is the only track with Dre as main vocalist, " Been There, Done That." The second single was "East Coast/West Coast Killas," prominent rappers from California, New York, and Texas rebuking rap's recently ugly East–West "war." A platinum seller, the album peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200 and at #3 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop-Albums charts. (Dre had co-founded Death Row in 1991 amid his embattled split from Ruthless Records and its pioneering, gangsta rap group N.W.A.) Dre's scarce vocals, newly critiquing gangsta rap, marked Dre's reemergence after his March 1996 departure from Death Row Records, where Dre himself had propelled gangsta rap into the mainstream. It was released on November 26, 1996, as the first album on Aftermath Entertainment. Dre Presents: The Aftermath is a compilation album by American and West Coast rapper Dr. Here are the 50 Best Selling Rap Albums of All Time.Dr. When Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III sold over a million copies his first week it truly marked the moment of his arrival as a rap superstar.Įven if numbers alone don't always tell the whole story, they do tell some sort of story. Dre's The Chronic moved major units in 1992 it signaled a shift in hip-hop from the East Coast to the West. Debut albums from rappers like Nas, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and 50 Cent became events unto themselves. In 1986, when Run-D.M.C.'s Raising Hell went multi-platinum within a year it proved that hip-hop was a truly a cultural force. The sales definitely reflect part of the impact an artist had.
While all of the albums on this list are in the multi-platinum and even diamond range, a few reflect some of the pivotal moments within hip-hop.
In fact, sometimes they're something significant. Records sales aren't everything, but they are something.
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