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TIL Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle sold over 800K copies in it’s first week which became the record for a debuting artist and the fastest-selling hip hop album ever until Eminem’s album The Marshall Mathers LP bested it. Both were produced by Dr. Dre.

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