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NBA YoungBoy joins a history pool with 2Pac and Lil Wayne following Sincerely, Kentrell album release.

September 11, 2021 YNW Melly, whose highly publicized murder case has even inspired a top-scale podcast production has also seen a decline in album traction during his imprisonment. The Florida rapper released his 2nd studio album, Just a Matter of Slime, in August (which ironically featured Kodak Black) to a No. 11 Billboard 200 opening down three notches from his 2019 debut album YNW Melly vs. Melvin (also released while incarcerated for the aforementioned murder charge). Throughout the years, several rap stars such as T.I., Gucci Mane, Lil Kim and Boosie Badazz have attempted to weather the lack of promotional storm with jailhouse album drops while others such as Bobby Shmurda, Shyne Remy Ma, Master Ps brother C-Murder saw their rap careers stall once there was no material to keep their names buzzing. Few rap fans would argue the most iconic and initial occurrence were one and the same when 2Pac released Me Against The World on March 14, 1995, while serving time at Clinton Correctional Facility in New York for aggravated sexual assault. The late rap martyr would go on to serve eight months but the album featuring some of his greatest hits including Dear Mama, So Many Tears and the title track would go on to not only immortalize him before death, it would pave the way for his infamous Death Row days. Read more