Rapper NAS untitled Def Jam release — originally set to be called “Nigger” — debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and sold 113,000 copies during its first three days of sales as he leads the Nielsen SoundScan Friday Building chart.
NAS interim total is a tad behind the 116,000 that another rapper, Rick Ross, rang on “Trilla” on the Friday Building chart in March, on the album’s way to a chart-topping total of 198,000.
NAS last No. 1 album, “Hip-Hop Is Dead” dropped in late December 2006, selling 354,000 copies during Christmas week.
Rapper Lil Wayne currently leads the chart with “Tha Carter III” which sold 125,000 copies during the week ended July 13.
