Jada Doing Numbers
Posted by Media Outrage on April 16th, 2009
Jadakiss’ “The Last Kiss” hit stores last Tuesday and has moved a pretty impressive amount of units in just a week’s time.
Via AHH:
Jadakiss’ new album, The Last Kiss, debuted in at number 3 on Billboard Top 200, an impressive outing for the Lox rapper.
The Yonkers-bred rapper moved close to 135,000 records when the Nielsen SoundScan numbers were announced today.
Jadakiss has been a staple in Hip-Hop music for over 10 years, but hasn’t seen the crossover commercial success that some of his peers have experienced.
The rapper said he expected to sell well based on his work, but would continue to press forward to keep the momentum going.
“Everybody wants to sell a million records but that’s just the least of it. You’ve gotta get sponsors,” he told AllHipHop.com. “Not to mention [that,] I’m going to stay on this tour bus until the wheels fall off. I keep doing shows and arenas and then I’m hopping on a tour. You have to stay on the road and do other things. The sales of the actual physical album are down, you cannot just play on that like it’s the only card in your hand. You have to have to some other Trump card to fall back on.”
To further support The Last Kiss, he said he’s got a reality show on BET in the works.
Jadakiss said, “I’m looking for my next DJ [on the show]. I go to Philly, Chicago, Atlanta across the whole nation looking for the hottest upcoming DJ. I’m going to bring them back to Y.O. for some a la Diddy “Making the Band” type of s**t. They’re gonna go thru a gang of competitions and who wins gets to be my next DJ.”
The Last Kiss marks Jadakiss’ debut on Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella Records.
Mediaoutrage- Good to see a talented MC moving a few units in this recession.
April 16th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Havn’t heard the album yet.. But Jada is definatly one of the top 5 alive emcees to date..
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April 16th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
yea, good for him, he definetly can flow
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April 16th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
He can flow and I bought it but I haven’t listened to it yet.
But he don’t need to do a reality show too…DAM!!!!!!!!!!
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April 17th, 2009 at 3:12 am
Now here’s a rapper who understands the music business. Although sales are important, it’s not the only card in your hands. Nicely done Mr. Kiss
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April 17th, 2009 at 4:39 am
I love jada, love him. aint know he drop an album but id buy that just offa gp. notice i said would, meaning i would if the economy wasnt so jacked up and ray ray the bootleg man doesnt have a copy. but he is one of the most underrated hip hop artist around. Now someone please call meth and tell him to get his ass in the studio.
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