NaS Leads Album Sales This Week

About time Wayne gets taken out.

Via HipHopDX.com

After endless weeks of controversy, Nas' Untitled [click to read] album reigns the charts with 186,600 copies sold in its first week. Grabbing the #2 spot is Lil Wayne's Tha Carter 3 [click to read] with just under 105,500 copies sold. If Wayne's sales continue at this pace, he'll be due for a double platinum plaque by next week! David Banner's latest effort The Greatest Story Ever Told [click to read] debuted this week at #8 selling 51,800 in its first week. Rihanna maintains her spot in the top 10 with the re-release of Good Girl Gone Bad selling 41,200 copies in its 59th week on the charts. Usher's Here I Stand [click to read] rounds out the top 5 leading Hip Hop/ R&B artists at #19 with 26,000 copies sold this week.

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)

Rank Artist Album This Week Total
1. Nas
Untitled
This Week: 186,640
Total: 187,078

2. Lil Wayne
Tha Carter 3
This Week: 105,490
Total: 1,912,052

8. David Banner
Greatest Story Ever Told
This Week: 51,805
Total: 51,902

10. Rihanna
Good Girl Gone Bad
This Week: 41,269
Total: 1,482,574

19. Usher
Here I Stand
This Week: 26,071
Total: 906,641


G-Unit takes a drop from #9 last week to #24 this week with Terminate On Sight [click to read] selling 21,200 copies this week--a 42% decline from last week's numbers. Plies' Definition of Real [click to read] comes in at #26 selling 20,500 copies. Three 6 Mafia grabs the #29 spot with Last 2 Walk [click to read] selling 18,431 units this week. After reports surfaced that the self-proclaimed drug pushin', gun toting "boss" Rick Ross is in actuality a former corrections officer, his sales have yet to suffer this week. Trilla [click to read] sold 9,700 copies this week, only a 4% decline from last week. However, next week's numbers (the first full sales week after this week's revelations about Ross' past) will be the true sign of any fan backlash.

Other Notables

Rank Artist Album This Week Total
24. G-Unit
Terminate On Sight
This Week: 21,219
Total: 159,369

26. Plies
Definition of Real
This Week: 20,522
Total: 400,789

29. Three 6 Mafia
Last 2 Walk
This Week: 18,431
Total: 156,835

58. Rick Ross
Trilla
This Week: 9,702
Total: 629,610

74. Tech N9ne
Killer
This Week: 8,076
Total: 57,771


Will August heat up on the charts with new albums on the horizon from heavy-hitters like The Game, Ne-Yo and Nelly? Or will the youngins get schooled by new projects from Ice Cube and LL Cool J? Can femcee/ producer Missy Elliot come in for the sneak attack and shock the charts? Stay tuned as DX brings the play by play.

Rick Ross...Confirmed Correction Officer

I haven't been keeping up with this story. But some pictures leaked on the internet with Rick Ross in a corrections uniform and blah blah blah, after he denied it more blah blah blah. And now we're here.

Via AllHipHop.com

The questions over Rick Ross’ previous employment status has seemingly been answered by website TheSmokingGun.com, which released records showing the Miami rapper was at one time a corrections officer.



Ross, born William Roberts, is known for his gritty tales of drug dealing and the street life, but he also apparently graduated from the Florida Department of Corrections (DoC) training academy.



The rapper's social security number matches that of a William Roberts, who was assigned to the South Florida Reception Center in Dade County.



The 32-year-old rapper was appointed a prison guard in December of 1995 at the tender age of 19. He left the job in 1997.



In a previous statement Ross denied the allegations and labeled pictures of him in a correctional officer’s uniform were fraudulent.



"My life is 100% real," Ross told AllHipHop.com in a previous statement regarding the photo. "These online hackers putting a picture of my face when I was a teenager in high school on other peoples' body. If this s**t was real don't you think they would have more specifics, like dates and everything? I'm in the entertainment business and a lot of people who like to hate because I'm on top of my game. Like I said before my life is 100% real. I live by this die by this. Fake pictures are created by the fake, meant to entertain the fake."



The woman identified in the pictures shaking hands with Ross is Marta Villacort, who was head of the South Florida Reception Center.



At press time, Rick Ross was unavailable for a comment on the prison report.