Kendrick Lamar has reason to pop the champagne bottle, because his 2012 album “good kid, m.A.A.d city” just beat Eminem ‘s LP “The Eminem Show” for the longest-charting hip-hop studio album in the history of the Billboard 200 charts. Chart Data broke the news on Sunday, and “The Eminem Show,” which came out in 2002, spent 357 weeks on the charts, while “good kid, m.A.A.d city” has lived on the charts for 358 weeks, which equates to almost seven years. Kendrick Lamar’s album “good kid, m.A.A.d city” beat out Eminem’s album “The Eminem Show” for longest hip-hop studio album in Billboard 200’s history. (Photos: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images, David M. Benett/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images) The album has also gone triple platinum (3 million units sold) and maybe even more importantly, it turned Lamar into an international star. Not to mention, the album placed him on the same all-time great lists with people like Nas , Jay-Z , and the Andre 3000 s of the world — despite it only being Lamar’s sophomore album. His first LP was 2011’s “Section 80,” released solely on his record label Top Dawg Entertainment. And “good kid, m.A.A.d city,” […]

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