Yall know @DaveEast wrote Stand On That about me because I called him itchy. That song wasn’t about no damn woman and @iamkevingates was in the studio that night.
I say all that to say, you may not always have a metric for success. Sometimes success is shedding light on what is looked as a failure and finding ways to clarify what success actually looks like apart of the WHOLE. The album is done. It’s out. That’s a success.
DDG’s album was successful A THREAD: Understanding how relatively NEW live-streaming is as a platform, I will say @PontiacMadeDDG album sales were impressive. Keep in mind, one of the few people in the world existing in real time.
A lot of people don’t understand the shifts in social media. How do you get from 40 characters on twitter to a livestream… that was kinda foreshadowed by Frank Ocean during endless, but that’s another conversation.