A hard-core rap album and an acoustic rock album debuted this week at the top of the

Billboard 200 albums chart, with Silkk the Shocker's Made Man at #1 and

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds' Live at Luther College at #2.

Made Man sold 240,244 copies between Jan. 18 and 24, according to sales

tracker SoundScan. It's the third album by Silkk the Shocker, the younger brother of rap

impresario Master P.

Singer/guitarist Matthews recorded Live at Luther College with longtime

accompanist Reynolds on a break from the Dave Matthews Band. The album, recorded

in Decorah, Iowa, features live acoustic versions of Matthews Band songs. It sold

186,772 copies last week.

"We didn't promote it at all," said Peter Winkleman, a spokesperson for Red Line

Management, which handles Matthews. "It's a live album and Dave didn't want to."

"We think it's great," Winkleman said of the album's chart showing.

The week's other major debut was from singer/songwriter and indie entrepreneur Ani

DiFranco, whose Up Up Up Up Up Up sold 50,985 copies, landing at #29 on the

chart. DiFranco owns and operates the Buffalo, N.Y., label Righteous Babe, which

released Up Up Up Up Up Up; the album includes

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of Thee" (RealAudio excerpt).

Southern California pop-punkers the Offspring held the #4 spot for a third consecutive

week with Americana, which sold 113,563 copies.

Teen pop singer Britney Spears, whose album ...Baby One More Time debuted at

#1 a week ago, slipped to #3, even though sales of the album rose slightly. It sold

122,830 copies last week.

Pop band 'N Sync, which was last week's #2, dropped to #5 on sales of 108,770 copies.

Rounding out the top-10 were the Fugees singer/rapper Lauryn Hill at #6 with The

Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, rapper DMX at #7 with Flesh of My Flesh -- Blood of

My Blood, the late Tupac Shakur at #8 with Greatest Hits, country trio the Dixie

Chicks at #9 with Wide Open Spaces and rapper Jay-Z at #10 with Vol. 2 ...

Hard Knock Life.

The Silkk the Shocker record is on Master P's label, No Limit, which has six albums in all

in the top-200, including two Master P records, MP Da Last Don (#147) and

Ghetto D (#148).

"No Limit has grown dramatically in the past two years; it's incredible," said Eddie

Peña, manager of the world music section at HMV, a record store on 34th Street

in New York.

Even so, the Silkk the Shocker album was not a strong seller at his store, Peña

said. "That's the West Coast style pretty much," he said. "The East Coast style has a

faster tempo to it."

Despite a decline in sales for Flesh of My Flesh -- Blood of My Blood, DMX, who

will tour with Jay-Z and fellow rappers Method Man and Redman starting in late

February, continued his streak of commercial success. His previous release, It's Dark

and Hell Is Hot, moved up one spot to #21 with sales of 57,578.

Jay-Z kept a high sales profile, too, with the four-month-old Hard Knock Life,

which sold 87,558 copies. The album held the #1 spot for five weeks last year.

Speaking before a press conference for the upcoming tour Tuesday in New York, Jay-Z

said, "I'm not overwhelmed, because this is something we worked hard for."

Some records that debuted last week tumbled this week, among them By Your

Side, the fifth album by Southern rockers the Black Crowes. It fell 30 spots, from #26

to #56.

Jailed rapper Keith Murray suffered a similar fate, seeing his It's A Beautiful Thing

drop from #29 to #68. Murray is serving a three-year sentence in Connecticut for his role

in a 1996 barroom brawl.

Rockers Sugar Ray lost ground, too, with 14:59, but theirs was a more modest

fate. The album moved down six places to #25.

Former House of Pain frontman Everlast, meanwhile, couldn't quite break the top-10. His

Whitey Ford Sings The Blues, which features the popular single

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Elsewhere on the chart, Depeche Mode's hits collection The Singles '81-'85

entered the chart at #114.

And the nation's passion for professional wrestling is spilling over onto the music chart.

The World Wrestling Federation's Vol. 3 -- WWF Music climbed from #41 to #24

and has now jumped 58 spots in two weeks. The album features the ring entrance music

used by such wrestlers as Stone Cold Steve Austin and Rocky Maivia.