The amount of time it takes for a rap album to hit diamond varies greatly 2pac’s All Eyez On Me took 18 years, while OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below made it in only three-largely because of a double-disc technicality-and MC Hammer’s Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em achieved the certification in just one. The only hip-hop albums from this decade that are even in the same stratosphere are Eminem’s 2010 comeback album Recovery (4.7 million) and Lil Wayne’s 2008 blockbuster Tha Carter III (3.8 million), and that’s only if you consider “less than halfway there” close. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (August 1998) follows that with less than eight million, and the drop off after that album is steep. The closest, 50 Cent’s classic Get Rich or Die Tryin’ sits at roughly 8.4 million units shipped according to Billboard it came out in February 2003. No hip-hop album released in the last decade is close to diamond certification. If sales trends continue, it might be the last. On July 25, Country Grammar joined the ranks of Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP and OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below as the eighth diamond-certified hip-hop album in history after moving ten million units in the U.S. Attending college more than a decade after its original release, I recall hearing “Ride Wit Me” and “Country Grammar (Hot Shit)” at parties more times than I can count. Nelly’s debut album Country Grammar, released on June 27, 2000, was a Y2K staple with a curiously long shelf life.

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