Best Albums To Balance Commercial and Critical Success?

StillFaggyAF · May 2012

IMO

StoneColdMikey · May 2012

Black Album

Gen. Stasia · May 2012

Late Registration

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genocidecutter · May 2012

IceBergTaylor · May 2012

? The GOAT

grumpy_new_yorker · May 2012

tompetrez3 · May 2012

cant argue with the score. 21 million sold with a boom bap sound. When you call an album a commercial success diamond albums only. jigga warriors can go ? themselves jay z never sold more than 6 million. pac did that 4 times. eminem just sold 6 million 2 years ago while kanye and jay z barely can push 1 million together. ? late registration and black album. eminem worst selling album outsells kanye and jay z best selling album

idoitforhiphop10 · May 2012

C/S ? . That was the first album to come to mind when I first saw this thread.

a-grave247 · May 2012

tompetrez3 wrote: »

cant argue with the score. 21 million sold with a boom bap sound. When you call an album a commercial success diamond albums only. jigga warriors can go ? themselves jay z never sold more than 6 million. pac did that 4 times. eminem just sold 6 million 2 years ago while kanye and jay z barely can push 1 million together. ? late registration and black album. eminem worst selling album outsells kanye and jay z best selling album

If your telling me The Blueprint does not balance being a commercial and critical success then you can go ? YOURSELF and quit hating

georgia boi · May 2012

Miseduacation of Lauryn Hill- It's heralded as one of the best albums of all time and sold 8 million copies in the U.S.

Speakerboxxx/Love Below- It's a highly rated album that went diamond

Stankonia- highly rated and sold 4 million copies

Aquemini- highly rated and sold 3 million copies

vslyke · May 2012

Life After Death (sure some of it was trash, but any double album has some trash. And Hypnotize can't be denied.)

Ready to Die - 2 Top 10 singles (on the pop charts) & 4x plat

Pac - All Eyez On Me (Over 9x plat)