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The list includes JID EARTHGANG and Guapdad 4000.
Last year, Dreamville unveiled Revenge of the Dreamers III, which shot to the top of the Billboard 200 in July 2019. Now, the latest compilation album from J. Cole’s label is set to reach platinum status in the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), which amounts to the equivalent sales of 1 million units.
Naturally, members of the Dreamville roster—including JID, EARTHGANG, Cozz, Omen, and Lute—are among the newly platinum artists.
Variety also points out that Guapdad 4000, Buddy, Mez, Young Nudy, Jace, Reese LaFlare, Yung Baby Tate, Baby Rose, Mereba, and Dreezy will receive plaques for the first time.
The sessions made room for a jam-packed guest list that included over 100 writers, producers, and performers—who ended up recording 142 songs. The final product was shortened to an 18-song tracklist.
Genius previously broke down the song-artist ratio from each of Dreamville’s compilations:
“The most important thing that came out of those sessions more so than anything is the community and the bonds that were formed between the artists at those sessions,” Derick Okolie, Dreamville’s head of marketing, told Variety. “It’s that same sense of community that we started at Dreamville. There’s going to be 50,000 people at our festival [this summer]. That’s the same energy that went with us to those sessions. It’s something we’ve always spoken about that’s missing within the industry.”
(Dreamville recently pushed back the Raleigh, NC festival from its original April 4 date to August 29 in light of coronavirus concerns.)
Mez echoed Okolie’s sentiment in a previous interview with Billboard, where he spoke about his experiences at the Atlanta sessions. “It was a movie. You meet so many people that are talented, and we didn’t know of each other before,” he said. “You became fans of each other, supported each other. It was tight man. It was a moment.”
J. Cole elaborated on the ideas driving the compilation album in a Revenge documentary. “My whole career, I’ve been in a room with me and at most, a few select people that I f*ck with,“ he said. “I’m reaching a point in my career, this past year, like bro I don’t want to [look] back 20 years from now like, ‘I never worked with nobody, I never had no fun.’ I had this idea, let’s go somewhere, lock in and invite a bunch of outside producers and artists to come f*ck with it and just make this album.”
At the time of its chart-topping feat, the LP was minted gold—and a deluxe edition of the disc has since popped up with 12 new songs from the Dreamville team.
