Jay-Z's new album "American Gangster" sold 425,000 copies last week to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts this week. Last week's #1 The Eagles "Long Road Out of Eden" fell to #2. Britney Spears' album fell from #2 to #7.
This is Jay-Z's tenth album to debut at #1 tying Elvis as second all time in #1 album debuts. The Beatles are first with nineteen #1 debuts, a seemingly untouchable amount.
Tying Elvis makes Jay-Z iconic, and not just in the hip-hop world. I am not a huge Jay-Z fan, but you have to respect the man. He is the King Midas of the rap world; everything he touches turns to gold...or platinum in his case.
In case you were wondering, the title of this entry are actual lyrics from the new album:
Rich niggas, black bar mitzvahs
Mazel tav, it's a celebration bitches, la heim
I wish for you a hundred years of success but it's my time Cheers,
toast to crime Number one b-boy, chain nigga rhyme
That's just plain genius!
Check out the video for the first single "Blue Magic"
Yes, that would be a wad of EUROS that he pulls out. It is a sad commentary on the US economy when rappers are pulling out Euros to show how filthy rich they are. The Euro now officially has more street-cred than the dollar. Jay-Z is the Gangsta Alan Greenspan.
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