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3 Rapper's Who Deserve A Grammy

Kendrick Lamar

J. Cole

Kendrick Lamar is a new age MC with an untamed flow that details his life through words. From the start of his career he has been an artist with flow that could not be denied. His first studio album Good Kid Maad City debuted at number two on the Bill Board 200 Chart and sold 242,000 copies in it's first week. Earning the highest first-week hip hop album sales of 2012 from a male artist, along with the best selling debit from a male artist of the year. It weasel certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and by March 30, 2014, has sold 1,227,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan