at all

Right. Everyone is chasing hits not just Drake

Seeing their favs songs on tiktok makes them feel less special

Especially when they molded their personality after the artist

It’s not a race thing at all tbh. It’s just something people on here use as ammo during music discussions. I know cause I do it to

er the main issue is sacrificing the quality of music for $ales

that’s kinda the whole crux of the argument

“This is garbage mumble rap”

“This is garbage tiktok music”

Are both code for “the music I like is better than the music you like”

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someone remind me of toosie slide's conception. didn't homie make a dance, drake made a bop to it, then they proceeded to do that dance on social media? is it not the same as any other dance craze? is it less organic because it's tik tok? i'm really trying to understand. it just seems like new devices have been introduced to "the game" of the industry and we as consumers are less inviting to it than the artists when it should probably be the other way around.

you get a lot of primarily Caucasian rockist hipsters who like a couple of token rap artists (Kanye, Kendrick) that look down upon any rap that isn’t critically acclaimed or heralded, or abstract/experimental. it’s almost like if you like something that is traditional hip hop, it’s an indictment on your taste. you can see it everywhere

i genuinely do not get it fam

The difference with Toosie Slide is that he literally sent it out to popular TikTokers to post and dance to before it was even released. It’s not like he dropped the song and it happened to blow up on TikTok, he specially made sure the song had a following on TikTok and then dropped the song.

"how is WLR or Dawn FM tik tok music vs drake releasing something unapologetically geared to go viral and create videos to like Toosi Slide?"

links posts to Abel releasing something unapologetically geared to go viral and create videos to like Take My Breath

You're acting disingenuous as if that isn't the same. Everyone is trying to go viral. Adele, Drake, Olivia Rodrigo, The Weeknd, Travis, Kendrick, BTS literally everyone making music. Unless you're a stan and can't be objective you can't deny this

That’s their opinion. Has nothing to do w being racist

People look for different s*** in their music. Everyone isn’t gonna like what you like. I get where y’all are coming from but it’s lame when you try to make it a race thing. Cause all black people don’t listen to the same music

Almost 200 what a monumental L for one, and a major W for another

Did Weeknd send take my breath early to tiktokers? Or did he market it after it’s release to a platform that will literally make fart sounds viral if it’s popular enough?

if that’s how it was conceived then point taken. if it was not however, it’s a pretty good example. i doubt it even would’ve existed without tik tok, and yes it would be “less organic” because you’re baiting for popularity instead of just making music

it’s cool if you’re just looking to be successful, but if you’re looking to make quality music, appealing to the masses is only gonna get you so far

Facts, and I’m not even a Gunna fan but if you don’t think Pushin P is a good modern pop rap song you’re deluding yourself

their opinion is racially motivated. that’s the point

You mad so your true racist colors showin now

Weeknd hasn’t posted since

i can give you the classic "quality is subjective" but really when it comes down to it, f*** that and f*** our opinions. these artists are gonna make what comes to them, and we're gonna receive it or not. i don't think the sacrifice of quality and the accumulation of sales or awards or anything else that gets repeated on here to death really has to correlate 100% of the time. maybe not even 50%.

Pushin P is quite literally a meme created specifically for the likes of TikTok

And it’s working flawlessly

Ones man’s flop is another man’s treasure

It wasn’t supposed to be like this

Not even one top 10 debut

I’ve got something in my front pocket for you