''Southsiders'' is the seventh studio album by American hip hop duo

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. The album was released via

Rhymesayers Entertainment Rhymesayers Entertainment (sometimes abbreviated RSE) is an American independent hip-hop record label based in Minneapolis. History Rhymesayers Entertainment was co-founded in 1995 by Sean Daley (Slug), Anthony Davis (Ant), Musab Saad (Sab th ...

on May 6, 2014. The title ''Southsiders'' refers to the south side of Minneapolis.

Critical reception

Upon its release, ''Southsiders'' was met with generally positive reviews from

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an

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score of 70, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number eight on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, with first-week sales of 23,159 copies in the United States through the independent hip hop label

Track listing

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

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