This is a list of the Top 10 best-selling Hip Hop albums in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
1. OutKast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (LaFace Records, 2003) – 11 times platinum
2. MC Hammer – Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (Capitol Records, 1990) – 10 times platinum
3. The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death – (Bad Boy Records, 1997) – 10 times platinum
4. Tupac Shakur – All Eyez On Me (Death Row Records, 1996) – 10 times platinum
5. Eminem – The Eminem Show (Aftermath Records, 2002) – 10 times platinum
6. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath RecordsInterscope Records, 2000)- 10 times platinum
7. Will Smith – Big Willie Style (Columbia Records, 1997) – 9 times platinum
8. Tupac Shakur – Greatest Hits (Death Row Records, 1998) – 10 times platinum
9. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse Records, 1998) – 8 times platinum
10. Nelly – Country Grammar (Universal Records, 2000) – 8 times platinum