I seriously doubt you was bumping the purple swag tape

The only artist who I was there for their first release ever is Travi$ OP.

But in terms of who I f***ed with before the mainstream knew they existed def Tyler. I been f***in wit him since like 2012.

I was on dat piff while your mommy was still changing your diapers young blood

You could always tell what mixtapes were good because they had dope covers. That one was obviously from somebody who cared. Listened and confirmed.

Rarely did a mixtape have a photoshop cover and good music

Tyler Earl Rocky Isaiah

Dreamchasers 2? Nigga you LATE not early 💀

I was early on weeknd, partynextdoor, bryson tiller, Tyler, Frank, Rocky, been listening to Kanye religiously since the college dropout

Weeknd

icytwat half a decade ago
PND when OVO first posted him
lil baby when he dropped that song w ralo

Idk whats considered early though

Most of these i wouldn’t consider day 1 but if thats the consensus i guess then i second this post

A Boogie, Lil Tjay, Dave East and this whole ny drill wave basically lol. I been knew about Cardi B too but I was never a fan

Cause that tape is garbage

tyler, since oldie , so happy for my guy and how far he has made it

their first huh

Kid Cudi, Earl Sweat, I would say Tyler but I don’t listen to him anymore, Kid Cudi, 070, Roddy Ricch, lmao Soulja Boy, D Smoke

zay

i’m not like a big fan of them or anything but i knew about/was in contact with brockhampton and bishop nehru years before they were remotely famous

I've since stepped away from it but I used to be a very active person on Twitter 5-7 years ago. I focused almost exclusively on hip-hop and R&B. I only had 5-6,000 followers but I was averaging 50-60 retweets per tweet and had a few tweets crack 1000+. This gave me a few opportunities - I had the chance to do s*** like talk to Just Blaze, get free concert tickets, give away albums (Big Sean's debut amongst others). Management and teams for up-and-coming artists would DM me asking me to review their mixtapes or tell people to check them out.

Around this time, I also had a few A&Rs reach out, acknowledge what I was doing, and then offer me interviews/jobs. When they found out I was 15-17 at the time though, that killed any meaningful opportunities for me. That said, they would often send me gift cards and s*** to download music, show that I was "supporting" the artists, and that I should promote them. Drake's debut was around the start of these opportunities for me, and there was serious talk about him doing 650-750,000+ on his debut. Some people said he might crack a million - it really was the most hyped debut since 50, arguably Snoop. Drake was afford a pretty nice rollout accordingly. One of the younger A&Rs over at Motown knew I was a fan and got me in touch with the guy overseeing the street rollout for Sauga, Oshawa, and I believe Ottawa. If I remember correctly, it was about a week before the album came out that we got together with 15 others and put up Drake's TML cover posters all over the city. We also had copies of TML to give away.

I started university September the year after TML dropped, and balancing uni and the twitter stuff was a massive hassle. I was still too young to land an internship so I said f*** it, and quit.

Now I s*** post on KTT.

What a time.

Ferry Wap Trap Queen before 1 mil views

Travis, Saba, Isaiah Rashad

i was bumping uzi back when luv is rage 1 first dropped but idk if that counts

J. Cole

I mean I wasn’t following his entire come up but I was listening to him before The Warm Up dropped

Was listening to Kendrick when he was still going by K.Dot

F***ed with Drake when Ransom dropped.... Wayne song he was featured on... that was first time I heard Drake.... not sure if that was before SFG or not

Future kinda, pretty damn close 💯

lean, bladee, carti

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