Red button talk in 2025

i mean brah if it wasnt a red button that case woulda been dismissed by now

So first it’s Billboard changing the rules so radio matters again, and now it’s the labels not pushing rap music on streaming anymore

Why does everything have to be a conspiracy to y’all instead of just coming to the simple conclusion that mainstream rap overall has been artistically stagnant for years now

Stopping reading at “cause UMG”

You take all the validity out of your statement when you think UMG can just throw bullshit on a CD and it can sell 300k anymore

If that was possible they would be doing that a lot more instead of letting everyone flop

Did I say it did?

I'm still stuck on the fact that you called all those feats irrelevant. Why did you say that?

Some cases take years to get dismissed. Yall have changed the meaning of that red button song like 10 times since it came out

artistically stagnation isnt a reason for commercial stagnation. we all know a label can make anything popular brah

Rap songs in the Top 50 of US Apple Music right now:

1. What Did I Miss? (2025)
2. Freestyle (2017)
3. 30 for 30 (2024)
4. Not Like Us (2024)
5. WAIT FOR U (2022)
6. In a Minute (2022)
7. Went Legit (2025)

On the platform where rap dominates, mind you

The judge hasn’t made a decision at all, someone could easily say “if the case was so concrete it would’ve been dismissed/went to trial by now”

Yall really don’t know how these things work and it shows

So why aren’t they making these rap songs popular right now?

we gon see old man....

imo beyond drake and all that s*** i think niggas got tooooooo powerful in music when streaming happened and labels, espically umg, are trying to shift the power back.

like brah some of the numbers that happened during streaming were so insane i couldnt imagine being someone like lucien seeing this and thinking my job is secure

Your logic is like when someone says a general statement about the world and then you respond with one specific instance of the opposite being true and use that as justification as to why the generalization isn’t accurate

2 out of 24 songs is not moving the needle

It’s gonna end up in an undisclosed settlement if not dismissed with one side saying he got 1 billion and the other saying they just quietly agreed to drop it to protect Drake from embarrassment

The truth will be somewhere in the middle

But streaming is growing every year so your point doesn’t make sense

bro streaming is growing, but its not nearly as valuable anymore

like them niggas had 2 nerf that s*** brah anyone was going platinum it was type like the 2000s again when the most random rappers had gold albums

It’s so obvious the red button song was just a typical Drake “I’m popping my s***” song then the beef happened and he and his fans repurposed it for that. Then he lost and sued and now the song always alluded to some master plan to challenge UMG

Don’t artist hate streaming and how much it pays? How could the power be in that? I personally think the power is in influence in general

That’s why you have places like stake paying 100m for Drake

i mean the entire ep (and many tracks we were all confused about the subject) was extremely ominius and basically predicted all thats happening especially red button and wickman

They didn’t change how many streams equal a sale though. People just aren’t tuning in to new rap music as much as they were in years previous

No it was clearly a song about him getting his ass whooped he saw the future

Half the song was terrible simile punchlines ending in -ation, that verse didn’t predict s*** lmao

I will stand on this forever this is one of the worst sections of a Drake verse ever:

I will start blackin' over here like it's segregation
I will f***in' double-cross you niggas like it's meditation
I'll give you a hard pill to swallow, this your medication
I will f***in' pop up on your ass like a revelation
I could tell you better than I show you, this a demonstration
I will f***in' leave you in the dirt like some vegetation
Chemicals is mixin' in my brain and killin' hesitation
I will f***in' force a few shots like a vaccination
Niggas f***in' call me up to cap, this not a graduation
I will f***in' put your ass on pause like I'm Pastor Mason
I will set alarms off and cause a whole evacuation
I'll f***in'—, I'll f***in'—
I'll get to you ten years from now like procrastination
I'll f***in' find out wherever y'all are celebratin'

Literal middle school bars

QAnon type s***

i remember during the early 00s there was a time where we were gas lit into thinking rap wasnt nearly as popular because of "sales" and "radio play" when in reality hip hop has been the most popular genre in america lowkey since the 90s

i felt like 2015-2018 is when s*** was actually legit. hip hop was finally named the biggest genre on earth, and rappers were finally doing INSANE numbers again. you mean to tell me in a 5 year time frame with all this amazing music that came out hip hop as a whole just fell off alright brah