My brother in Christ.....were you in a coma in 2023 where there was like a million articles about hip hop dying? Lol.

Yeah but it doesn’t check the “biggest phenomenon of the year and one of the most popular works in its medium ever” box that 21 does in comparison

Nine Inch Nails is misspelled in the title @op

Right

TUH

I mean...it lowkey does though?

After Hours is the 2nd biggest selling album of the decade after Bad Bunny's album from 2022.

And Blinding Lights is the most streamed song OAT on Spotify.

5 singles in the top 20, 2 Diamond songs, had people legit angry that he wasn't nominated for AOTY, lead to a Superbowl performance, and has a lot of cross-generational appeal.

Obviously, 21 is in another league but I think After Hours comes the closest of any album this decade.

Facts Guess they thought the fans would hold it down lmao

Both singles flopped recently ,added multiple old ass songs to the album for sells.. released multiple version to the album like she’s Taylor f***ing swift did promo out the ass and from what I could remember everybody was saying hiphop fell off the year Nicki dropped her album lmao remind you Nicki did no traditional promo for her album didn’t even drop a video that year

Exactly I’m critical of Nicki at the moment but I’m gonna call a spade a spade that nigga just a hater

Pink Friday 2 released less than two years ago what are you talking about

Also Nicki did not do half of the s*** Cardi pulled for AM I THE DRAMA?

Then the only answer from this decade is Un Verano Sin Ti.

Critically acclaimed, probably the most popular Latin album ever at this point, became the highest streamed album in Spotify in a matter of one year

It’s either that or After Hours

You want her to apologize for taking the time to market her album?

I guess nobody should ever try to promote their music that theyre putting out to reach as many people as possible so ktt is happy

Yeah i must have missed the part where the decline stopped

Okay. If 200K is a good number, then why did Cardi say this when the initial projections came in at 200K?

oh tate mcrae… the artist you are

Lmfao again what is “pulling half the stuff” stop being generic and say what you mean cause everything ive seen her do is marketing an album that she releasing. Its called a marketing budget its allocated to spread the word on a product every business does it?

A 28k difference for a sophmore vs an established artist isnt bad you grasping straws

cardi numbers aren’t bad especially for the current climate, but i get the slight underwhelming feeling

nicki fans gonna drag it tho

What tf is this nonsensical chatty patty s*** 😭😭😭

@Preme55_ this is the difference

Cardi was saying that the initial projections were wrong and the final number would be higher

It ended up being the exact same number

McRae has buzz like that?

Okay? She has variants of her album for marketing and im sure her fans enjoy this experience she’s providing to them. You acting like this is the same as bundles back in the day 🤣🤣 this doesnt astro turf the numbers

yeah bro but places like twitter will literally have you believe otherwise cause of the hate she gets lmao. i think she has the biggest song by a female artist in the US this year in sports cars last time i checked

ppl forget how big a song like greedy was

It’s like if a basketball player takes 40 shots in a game and ends up with 20 points

For as much effort as she and her team put into selling this album, the end result was abysmal

Oh wow an artist wants her numbers to be higher than they are SHOCKER

That was a panic move she even said it herself, and tried to make a joke out of it claiming the label told her they wasn’t helping promote so she had to do it herself. And on top of that your just copying what the clipse did in real time I’m just saying in 2025 if you’re super star status that music should speak for itself I will give the clipse credit because they had to reach gen z they’re 20+ years in the game, but na not cardi seem like she was trying to hard.. but it’s not her fault it’s not the niggas that gassed her star power