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Lil Wayne Replaces Kendrick Lamar With Top Rap Album On Charts

Lil Wayne has replaced Kendrick Lamar as having the top rap album on Billboard’s Hip Hop Albums chart.

Tha Carter VI may have failed to land the top spot on the Billboard 200, being kept to number two by country star Morgan Wallen but it is now the number one rap album in the US.

Kendrick Lamar’s GNX had been the number one rap album for the prior seven weeks but Wayne’s first week album sales are enough to send him over the Compton superstar.

It is only the ninth week of the entire year where GNX has not been the number one rap album.

In its first week on sale, Tha Carter VI sold 108,000 equivalent units.

In comparison, Wayne’s last solo album, Funeral, debuted at number one and sold 139,000 equivalent units in its first week of release.

It is also a significant drop off from Tha Carter V‘s opening week sales of 480,000 in 2018.

The album also garnered the lowest debut week sales for any entries in Tha Carter series as well as Wayne’s entire near 30 year career.

Tha Carter VI was perhaps most notable for its eclectic features which includes U2 lead singer, Bono.

The two link up on the anthemic “The Days” which was previously debuted during a promo for the NBA Finals.

On the track, Wayne references his status as an elder statesman in Hip Hop, rapping: “I ain’t getting younger, but I’m getting better / No time to waste that’s another man’s treasure / They say every dog has hit day.”

Reincarnated: The 'Scary' 2Pac Vision That Continues To Inspire Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar’s new album GNX not only shines a spotlight on Los Angeles’ current crop of rising rappers such as AzChike, Hitta J3 and Lefty Gunplay, but contains an overt tribute to one of the city’s most famous adopted sons, Tupac Shakur.

Source: HipHopDX

As an ‘80s baby who grew up in L.A. — specifically Compton — during 2Pac’s prime and even witnessed the rap legend film scenes for his original “California Love” music video with Dr. Dre at the Compton Swap Meet as a kid, his love of ‘Pac is no surprise.

But for Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, it goes deeper than that. In the early hours of September 13, 2010 — exactly 14 years after 2Pac’s death — the then-up-and-coming lyricist had an eerie dream in which Shakur came to him and delivered a message that would have a profound impact on him.

“I was coming from a late studio session, sleeping on mom’s couch. I’m 26 now — it wasn’t that long ago,” he recalled in a 2013 interview with GQ. “I remember being tired, tripping from the studio, lying down, and falling into a deep sleep and seeing a vision of ‘Pac talking to me.

“Weirdest shit ever. I’m not huge on superstition and all that shit. That’s what made it so crazy. It can make you go nuts. Hearing somebody that you looked up to for years saying, ‘Don’t let the music die.’ Hearing it clear as day. Clear as day. Like, he’s right there. Just a silhouette.”

Explaining how the spiritual encounter influenced his approach to music, he added: “It wasn’t just about money, hos, clothes, drinking. I mean, I come from that world, but at the same time, I started to realize that there’s people out there that can’t really connect to that lifestyle. They’re in the struggle.”

Kendrick noted in a separate interview with Home Grown Radio that just a day before the “scary” vision, his mother pointed out to him that his and ‘Pac’s birthdays are just one day apart. “I never knew that shit,” he said. “That was some wild shit.”

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Lil Wayne Replaces Kendrick Lamar With Top Rap Album On Charts

Reincarnated: The ‘Scary’ 2Pac Vision That Continues To Inspire Kendrick Lamar