What’s the excuse Drake gonna pull out for pushing back the album? that boy don’t wanna drop with Sabrina lol.

I’m predicting he’s gonna say the mixed arent done

The recency bias is kinda nuts. Rap hasn’t had a major hit like NLU in years so it’s making people overcompensate for how it ranks in all time big rap hits

It didn’t but to me I said In Da Club & Lose Yourself come to mind as bigger hits, and one example for In Da Club is just how big it made the album it directly preceded.

If GNX debuted with 1 million+ directly following NLU then yall would suddenly (and rightfully) be using that opening to also show how big NLU was.

What im saying is pretty basic logic

Is it recency bias? Or has Not Like Us just accomplished numerous things that most rap songs never did?

• Biggest song in what is now the biggest rap beef of all time
• A whole defamation lawsuit was filed over it
• Won both Record of the Year AND Song of the Year at the Grammys, two awards that are extremely rare for a rap song to win, let alone both
• About to be performed at the Super Bowl, and will be the centerpiece of the first solo rap headline performance ever
• It’s halfway to Diamond in less than a year
• Became the anthem for one of the most important regions in rap history

How is the song not in rare air at this point?

Nobody is debuting with a million plus in 2025 other than Taylor Swift. Please stop being disingenuous.

So what’s the excuse Drake gonna come up with to push the album? That boy do now want to compete with Sabrina drop 🤷🏽‍♂️

Bar like 6 of these...

No, yall are the ones being disingenuous trying to say 50 Cent’s 2003 sales are nothing more than “of their time”.

Yes, in general that’s not as easy today… but his sales he did weren’t easy then either.

50’s 2003 sales were MORE harder and rare for even that time than GNX’s sales in 2024.
Bro you are not convincing me that GNX is as big for its time lmaooooo

Well no it’s not basic logic. Many people have even showed you how silly it was.

OTR being one of if not the biggest hits of all time didn’t translate to big first week sales for LNX, sunflower and Post Malones following album. Even this year you can look to Shaboozeys album.

And what’s crazy is NLU wasn’t even on the album.

That being said, you can’t compare NLU to lose yourself and In Da Club because those songs have longevity on their side. NLU hasn’t even been out a full year yet. NLU first year can absolutely go head to head with them though

Nobody was comparing GRODT and GNX. We are comparing Not Like Us and In da Club. You’re the one that brought up albums when discussing two singles

It’s accomplished things most rap songs haven’t for sure but that doesn’t make it the biggest rap song of all time imo. Especially since some of those accomplishments are arbitrary. It’s one of the biggest tho fs

I am sure Drake and PND will top The Weeknds and Kendrick’s First Week Sales

I’m not saying it’s outright #1, but it’s definitely among the biggest of the biggest. Like Top 25-50 of all time (there have been millions, probably billions of rap songs released since the genre’s conception, saying something is Top 50 all-time is still exceptional).

At this point, you cannot tell the story of rap music without mentioning Not Like Us. Off that alone, it’s up there.

I agree with this assessment. It could rise further up too depending on how it ages

Because one of them is f***ing 2003 before streaming and iTunes so you can’t compare individual numbers either

Kendrick potentially dropped a lose yourself type record on that boys head

What you’re implying is that no song released after 2015 can be in conversations for the biggest songs of all time. That’s ridiculous.

So a bad song?

Oh brother

Lose Yourself sucksss

Come on man. Lose yourself is good

Difference between 2019 Lil Nas / 2024 Shaboozey and Kendrick is that he is already a superstar with a huge career and fanbase…

But yes, you pointed out that an artist with ONE big breakout hit at the time usually doesn’t open huge and meanwhile 50 Cent did 2 million in 2 weeks off one hit which kinda really speaks to just how big of an impact In Da Club made at the time lmao.

I knew you were gonna say that. That’s why I also included post Malone and I see you ignored it. Many more examples as well.

NLU couldn't get to a billion before Gods Plan now they saying it got better impact than In Da Club?

Post had his biggest opening on the album with Sunflower and the opening was pretty big which is why I didn’t acknowledge that.

That example makes no sense and doesn’t work in your favor. It showed a huge hit did make a huge opening.

But also Sunflower was a really slow burner with insane longevity years after the album it was on. That’s what makes it huge. The overall longevity and not the initial run in that song’s case