Gunna’s ‘A Gift & A Curse’ Album Debuts In The Top 5

A lot of Hip Hop fans have been waiting to see how Gunna’s latest music project would sell. The Atlanta native faced widespread allegations of “snitching” over the last six months.

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There have been questions about whether Gunna’s decision to plead guilty to a racketeering charge in Georgia would hurt his commercial success. Some critics accused the rapper of turning on his YSL label boss/co-defendant Young Thug.

Gunna denied accusations that he essentially helped the government’s case against Young Thug and YSL. He used the “Bread & Butter” song to address the speculation. “Bread & Butter” lives on the recently released A Gift & a Curse album.

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A Gift & a Curse opened at No. 3 on the most recent Billboard 200 chart. Gunna’s fourth studio LP pulled in 85,000 first-week units. Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time remained at No. 1 for the fourteenth non-consecutive week.

Previously, Gunna opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with Wunna in 2020 and DS4Ever in 2022. Wunna collected 111,000 first-week units. DS4Ever amassed 150,000 first-week units. His Drip or Drown 2 peaked at No. 3 in 2019.

Gunna also scored another Top 10 entry when 2018’s Drip Harder collaborative project with Lil Baby landed at No. 4. Unlike his previous bodies of work, A Gift & a Curse did not have any guest features. Some of his peers, like Lil Durk, blasted Gunna for what they saw as being disloyal to Young Thug.