Found! What Hip-Hop Fans Are Searching For…
With all the talk about labels getting ready to unleash their big guns in the 4th quarter, I decided to embark on a quest to find out what you hip-hop geeks have been googling, yahooing, MSNing, etc. For each search, I combined artist name + album title, and picked the top results based on how often that phrase was querried in September. Keep in mind: these stats only represent the search frequencies (number of times the phrases were querried) for the month of September, not search results (otherwise the numbers would be much higher).
Peep game.
- 2Pac - Pac’s Life: 35 / 2Pac’s Life: 75
- Pharoahe Monch - Desire: 46
- Jim Jones - Hustler’s P.O.M.E.: 81
- Fat Joe - Me, Myself & I: 116
- Lil Scrappy - Bred 2 Die Born 2 Live: 155
- Talib Kweli - Ear Drum: 179
- Mos Def - Tru3 Magic: 298 / True Magic: 184
- AZ - The Format: 302
- Young Jeezy - The Inspiration: Thug Motivation 102 : 432
- Xzibit - Full Circle : 453
- Styles P - Time Is Money : 520
- Birdman & Lil’ Wayne - Like Father Like Son : 541
- Lil’ Flip - I Need Mine : 599
- Snoop Dogg - The Blue Carpet Treatment: 653
- Mike Jones - The American Dream: 698
- Akon - Konvicted: 720
- Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury: 911
- Young Buck - Buck the World: 1048
- Eminem Presents The Re-Up: 1175
- Diddy Press Play: 1976
- Nas - Hip-Hop Is Dead: 2010
- Jay-Z - Kingdom Come: 4359
- The Game - Doctor’s Advocate: 6389
Any surprises?
Awkward Search Terms
And just for kicks, here are some strange search strings that led users to my About Rap site in the last couple of months or so:
- Canadian idiot
- Jibbs
- lil boosie
- wendy williams
- conscience rappers
- Lucky Luciano
- who your set
- Walk it out
- chain hang low
- ?
- unk
- Crips
- coco
- peanut butter jelly
- sing breath England
- big booty hoes
- free ringtones and pictures
- ludicris
- rapper can bus
- 25 hottest bodies
Keep in mind that none of those terms has ever appeared on my site.
[Psst: I don't think I left out anyone but if you think of a prominent fourth quarter release that's not mentioned, feel free to hit up the comment section and I'll add it.]
