Feb 17, 2025If streaming was around 50 would have 20 diamond singles.
Feb 17, 2025·1 replyNewCopeJustDroppedI hate how niggas act like the massacre didn’t happen. The nigga was literally bigger then than he was during get rich. He was literally at the peak of his powers.
Never understood that s*** either bro was the only one with this record before Bieber broke it
scored six top ten hits during the year with "Disco Inferno", "How We Do", "Candy Shop", "Hate It or Love It", "Just a Lil Bit", and "Outta Control (remix)
4 songs in the top 5 at the same time
- Feb 17, 2025·1 replyDicherdownDAVE9
Never understood that s*** either bro was the only one with this record before Bieber broke it
scored six top ten hits during the year with "Disco Inferno", "How We Do", "Candy Shop", "Hate It or Love It", "Just a Lil Bit", and "Outta Control (remix)
4 songs in the top 5 at the same time
He just sold an entire tour off his first two albums 20 years later. That’s how big those albums were
Feb 17, 2025·3 repliesOnceAgainFunny thing is people was hating cause MMBS was actual art and no hits
He can make hits if he want
Kendrick also didn’t really focus on the commercial aspect of that album as much. Die Hard could’ve been a hit if he had pushed it as a single, but he chose not to.
He has a formula for album releases since his major debut. He will do a mainstream commercial album for the people and himself and then he will do an artistic challenge just for himself and if some people dislike it, it’s not a loss to him.
GKMC: Commercial
TPAB: Artistic
DAMN: Commercial
MM&TBS: Artistic
GNX: CommercialMr. Morale was a very important album for him and his place in his life and he wouldn’t be in the space he is in right now to handle and deliver under the immense pressure if he didn’t battle himself on MM&TBS first. Doing that also deflated some of Drakes momentum during the battle.
Feb 17, 2025
Feb 17, 2025
John Mauve
- Feb 17, 2025NewCopeJustDropped
He just sold an entire tour off his first two albums 20 years later. That’s how big those albums were
Exactly
- Feb 17, 2025WESLEYS THEORY
Kendrick also didn’t really focus on the commercial aspect of that album as much. Die Hard could’ve been a hit if he had pushed it as a single, but he chose not to.
He has a formula for album releases since his major debut. He will do a mainstream commercial album for the people and himself and then he will do an artistic challenge just for himself and if some people dislike it, it’s not a loss to him.
GKMC: Commercial
TPAB: Artistic
DAMN: Commercial
MM&TBS: Artistic
GNX: CommercialMr. Morale was a very important album for him and his place in his life and he wouldn’t be in the space he is in right now to handle and deliver under the immense pressure if he didn’t battle himself on MM&TBS first. Doing that also deflated some of Drakes momentum during the battle.
Yeah the real artists take risks
OPFeb 17, 2025
phq_"and started the beginning of 2009 focused Drake and Nicki’s rise"
score keeper, deduct 2 lives
like it or not, they are a major factor to this thing we call hiphop and started off at least respecting it as that lmao
- OPFeb 17, 2025WESLEYS THEORY
Kendrick also didn’t really focus on the commercial aspect of that album as much. Die Hard could’ve been a hit if he had pushed it as a single, but he chose not to.
He has a formula for album releases since his major debut. He will do a mainstream commercial album for the people and himself and then he will do an artistic challenge just for himself and if some people dislike it, it’s not a loss to him.
GKMC: Commercial
TPAB: Artistic
DAMN: Commercial
MM&TBS: Artistic
GNX: CommercialMr. Morale was a very important album for him and his place in his life and he wouldn’t be in the space he is in right now to handle and deliver under the immense pressure if he didn’t battle himself on MM&TBS first. Doing that also deflated some of Drakes momentum during the battle.
when Ebro said that to him he brushed it off like
nah bruh, I just be making music how I feel in the moment 
Feb 17, 2025I’m so sure
Feb 17, 2025Drake lost.
Feb 17, 2025never would have expected such career trajectory after a 5 year hiatus and dropping such personal album
Feb 17, 2025I didn't know they only counted my streams
Feb 17, 2025·2 replies
LmfaoKendrick don’t care about having a long reign if it comes at the cost of quality. That’s one of the reasons why many like him. Hes not afraid to take a break.
True but wasn’t there reports that he has like a five year plan or something like that? Idk where I saw that but would be interesting to see how that would play out
Feb 17, 2025·1 reply
Feb 17, 2025Experiment626True but wasn’t there reports that he has like a five year plan or something like that? Idk where I saw that but would be interesting to see how that would play out
I’m pretty sure his mindset has changed since then I feel like he knew he was gonna win the beef but never thought he would take it this far after the beef
Feb 17, 2025ValentineI mean brother
Wayne had Carter 3 (1M first week and 3M in a year), A Milli, Lollipop, Got Money, Swagga Like Us, 4 Grammys, and started the beginning of 2009 focused Drake and Nicki’s rise and this is after dominating 2007 with features
It’s definitely debatable
And Wayne had the streets mixtapes billboard charts (rap and pop) all on lock at the same time. His era was CRAZY.
- Feb 17, 2025
literally powered by drake autoplay
- Feb 17, 2025·1 replyOnceAgain
Funny thing is people was hating cause MMBS was actual art and no hits
He can make hits if he want
Die Hard was a hit but he didn’t promote or push any singles. I wonder why?
Feb 17, 2025Kojimbohubris is a mf
- mos def 🪐Feb 17, 2025WESLEYS THEORY
Kendrick also didn’t really focus on the commercial aspect of that album as much. Die Hard could’ve been a hit if he had pushed it as a single, but he chose not to.
He has a formula for album releases since his major debut. He will do a mainstream commercial album for the people and himself and then he will do an artistic challenge just for himself and if some people dislike it, it’s not a loss to him.
GKMC: Commercial
TPAB: Artistic
DAMN: Commercial
MM&TBS: Artistic
GNX: CommercialMr. Morale was a very important album for him and his place in his life and he wouldn’t be in the space he is in right now to handle and deliver under the immense pressure if he didn’t battle himself on MM&TBS first. Doing that also deflated some of Drakes momentum during the battle.
GKMC: Commercial
TPAB: Artistic
DAMN: Commercial
MM&TBS: Artistic
GNX: CommercialGood observation brother
GNXATION is gon be an artistic tape them
Snippet is on par with the trend you pointed out
- Feb 17, 2025Valentine
I mean brother
Wayne had Carter 3 (1M first week and 3M in a year), A Milli, Lollipop, Got Money, Swagga Like Us, 4 Grammys, and started the beginning of 2009 focused Drake and Nicki’s rise and this is after dominating 2007 with features
It’s definitely debatable
Yeah…this still ain’t touching that to me, dude generated all of that hype through shear will & infinite features/tapes/remixes
Feb 17, 2025·2 repliesWESLEYS THEORYWill GNX be a future classic?
It already is
Feb 17, 2025
aymI mean it’s a fact. We’ll see how Kendrick does numbers wise after the Super Bowl stimmy and the Drake beef dies off. When he drops again in 5 years lol
Kendrick has always done numbers, did the beef amplify what he been been doin? Fs but that’s how it goes when you engage in the biggest rap fued in decades. We not talkin bout f***in Vince Staples here (respectfully)
