Boston News: Boston Rapper Sam Adams Accused Of Buying Own Album To Top iTunes Charts

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A white rapper hailing from Boston named Sam Adams shocked hip-hop fans last week, when outta nowhere, his debut EP topped the iTunes hip-hop charts, beating out the likes of DJ Khaled and Lil Wayne.

His Boston's Boy EP hit no. 1 on iTunes last week, generating a buzz among the blogosphere, who according to the Boston Herald, began circulating a rumor that he was inflating his sales numbers by buying his own album.

A relatively unknown rapper hits no. 1 seems fishy right? Well, some of naysayers posted a document online, several thousand pages long, which showed that the...