@ventura_jovany Alright, hope this helps cuz you can’t critically think:
Rick Rubin is a huge part of the rap community
Bobbi Althoff has probably never heard 5 rap albums in her life
Drake just dropped Iceman and the midweek numbers are out here exposing the whole operation.
39,500 total activity… and 60 pure album sales. Not 6,000. Not even a polite 600. Sixty.
Sixty people actually went out of their way, opened their wallet, and bought the project. Sixty. That’s not a fanbase — that’s a group chat that forgot to cancel the pre-order.
Meanwhile Jay Hoebuck out here arguing that “sales is king in hip-hop over talent.” Cool story. So by his own metric, Drake just got dethroned by the barista who bought the vinyl for the aesthetic.
ENHYPEN did 100k pure. KATSEYE almost 50k. Stray Kids 40k. Even catalog Michael Jackson is outselling Drake’s brand-new project in pure units.
If sales really is the crown, then right now the king of hip-hop is whoever sold the 61st copy… because Drake couldn’t even clear that bar.
Talent talk is cute when the numbers are soft. But when the pure sales look like a typo, the “sales is king” argument just becomes the longest self-own in the culture.
60 pure sales. Say it with me. Sixty.
@MalloryBros9 STOP THE PROPAGANDA. Kendrick is tryna unite the West Coast, going against Game would be so contradictory to his mission.
He hates Drake and what he stands for, and Kendrick hated that he acted like they were together in “the big 3”
@Lit_Mink Hot take:
1) Kendrick (nothing even close to bad since 2012)
2) Kanye - legendary first 8 albums
3) Drake - a little something for everyone, but almost all projects after 2015 aren’t that amazing
4) Travis Scott - would be above Drake if Birds was good
5) Jay-Z - legendary
@iinfluencedyou He called Adonis black, your point is automatically invalid since Adonis is technically less black than Drake.
You’re an idiot who’s mad Kendrick covered his bases on everything. You can’t name one lyric that aged poorly from him besides “the audience not slow” & the Curry lyric
@levoradio Yeah, I’m sure they’re jealous of a degenerate gambled-addicted 40 year-old who hangs with strippers & pornstars who only hang around him cuz of his money, while his entire music catalog is owned by Lucian & he’s $5M in debt on the verge of losing his OVO brand 😭😭😭
Sure, pal.
@HeismanDev@mosthiphop Surely them talking about getting girls off the stage cuz they’re gonna get taken when Drake was out here kissing underage girls on stage was a coincidence…idiot.
@jaidenrelax I usually don’t entertain idiots…but why not today?
- best selling album of 2025
- 4 number one hits in 2024-2025
- featured on Clipse’s album that won BET’s album of the year
- Baby Keem’s “Good Flirts” is everywhere
😭😭😭😭
@FlageyGod Couple things:
- Kanye said this
- you quoted the lyric extremely wrong (tf is throwing a suicide?)
- you live in your moms basement & spend your time punching holes in your drywall while cursing someone’s name who doesn’t know you exist 😭😭😭😭
TDE's Punch tells the Budden podcast that they absolutely do NOT use bots to artificially increase streams:
"We don't bot. Absolutely not. […] we never been based on numbers, our true metric is putting people in seats. Selling out shows."