Kendrick Lamar's 'Good Kid, M.A.A.D City' Becomes Longest Charting Hip-Hop Album

2019-09-16 15

Kendrick Lamar's 'Good Kid,
M.A.A.D City' Becomes Longest
Charting Hip-Hop Album
.
Kendrick's major label debut has officially made 'Billboard' 200 history.
.
'Good kid, m.A.A.d city' now
holds the record at 358 weeks,
.
which was previously held by Eminem's 2002 album, 'The Eminem Show.'
.
Eminem's 'Curtain Call: The Hits,' is actually the
longest charting hip-hop album at 461 weeks,
.
but the 2005 album is a compilation album and not a studio album.
.
'Good kid, m.A.A.d city' debuted at No. 2
on the 'Billboard' 200 in 2012, with
242,000 copies sold in its first week.
.
Kendrick has had a successful
2019 so far.
.
On July 26, the rapper welcomed his first child
with his fiancée, Whitney Alford.