![]() It doesn't get any better than this in the world of hip hop. These are the albums that were in everyone's hands, went nonuple and decuple (that's 9x and 10x) platinum, held the highest of positions in American culture and made millions upon millions of dollars for the artists, their labels, and everyone involved. And more and more profitable.Īs Drake once said, we "started from the bottom now we're here." But how did hip hop music get "here," exactly? To be one of the most pervasive and influential music genres in the world? A great way to get the full picture is to look at the most important - and lucrative - rap albums of all time. It's not going away any time soon, and in fact it's only getting stronger. Hip hop has maintained its place among rock, country, jazz and pop as one of the most important genres in music. Even as rap hit its awkward phase in the 90s, it was taken fully to the mainstream by Eminem and Jay Z, then morphed into the various poppy subsectors it has today. & Rakim, The Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash, through the first signs of widestream popularity with LL Cool J, Biggie and Tupac, hip hop has been a form of expression and cultural importance that has spoken to a vast ocean of people in a way few genres can. Hip hop music has long been a part of the American consciousness. ![]()
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