The Real Reason A$AP Rocky Delayed His Album

[@indyhondagod]

Highjack and Taylor swif are on the daily work playlist. Idk who's talking shit.

[@huambikazapua1886]

Bro 😭 I’m also wondering

[@robsaget]

Same here

[@manuhdavincyB.M.P]

Facts

[@aaronthibodeaux3558]

Heat! Bangers!

[@ChaosInColour]

genuinely enjoyed all rocky’s singles, idk who’s calling them bad beside drake riders

[@osirishill23]

Yea same

[@Teg047]

exactly!

[@gpics900]

Yeah I was confused on that one part especially for Ruby Rosary

[@youngsoldierman]

@@gpics900hopefully we get a music video for it

[@hungarianmidget]

@@gpics900yeah people were calling jcoles verse on that bad or mid which is crazy

[@brugburnz8590]

its sucks blue lips doesnt get the recognition it deserves.

[@BowlingtonDC]

what if you take the 4 starting words of your sentence and take it out of context

[@Kidwithadog-ru6oe]

@@BowlingtonDCyour funny, your FUNNY!

[@mercurythompson1223]

Fax maybe best album of the year

[@InspiredIsland]

People are forgetting hip-hop “dies” every ten years, they said the same thing at the end of the bling era when kanye and jay dropped watch the throne, what yall arent seeing is that rap is turning a corner, evolving new sounds slowly, and trust me its Playboi Carti thats gonna usher this new era, starting with an evolution of gucci era trap. remember this comment

[@BigDdizzle]

@@InspiredIsland or kdot and Cole with their new albums

[@Junior-mx5od]

You got a good eye

[@flamingosrcool1378]

@@BigDdizzlethey’re both old, they’re not changing rap in the 2020s

[@zach8107]

I sure fucking hope the end of your post doesn't happen. I will not be here for hip hop anymore if Playboi carti becomes the face of the next gen, he is fucking buns

[@pshottaofficial]

@@zach8107chill dawg we all have different music taste like personally I want lil yachty to have a chance

[@someonesaccountforwritingn9894]

highjack slander is not tolerated that songs fucking beautiful

[@t.1344]

Are we fixated on sales or the music?

[@bigflockacuban]

the reason asap rocky isnt dropping great music is because he doesnt want to have bad sales so both

[@ChaosInColour]

@@bigflockacuban we could take that claim with a grain of salt bc rocky did flat out say it’s because of sample clearances. either way i hope he just puts out a good project for his fans regardless of sales

[@Sene_-wf2py]

@@bigflockacubanwhat you mean? His roll out for the new album has been great

[@ALFMthembu]

Feel like the listners are too worried about number, when they heard Travis was gonna do 200k first week they all rushed to listen to his tape which you was always on soundcloud Feel like numbers are the new promo

[@ALFMthembu]

And to add on this take, Travis did 200k because of bundles without bundles he would have sold under 50k

[@SmokeOneAndChill]

Tiktok is ruining hiphop. Attention span is crazy low at the moment.

[@RobertMunro-wb6jb]

I don’t care what the sales say !!! Sometimes a rap album could sell real low but be a quality album!!! I would say schoolboy q had the best album this year !!!

[@Maloep8896jsj7]

Between him, zel and Peggy

[@RobertMunro-wb6jb]

Yeah I just got that new Peggy and there was only 2 songs I wasn’t feeling but 90% was top quality!!! The production was so good !!!!

[@Maloep8896jsj7]

@@RobertMunro-wb6jb same, those last couple tracks were absolutely amazing

[@sosunni.]

I won't lie I hate the numbers thing, sales

[@D.o.r.K]

Kendrick sold 616,000 first week on damn

[@BigDdizzle]

In LA 😆

[@SamuelDavis-iy9ox]

But that was also in 2017

[@i.m.6758]

It’s over

[@lesedimakeketa5683]

Bro how did you listen to this whole video only to bring up an album from 7 years ago? 😂

[@Realcordy]

@@lesedimakeketa5683mis info

[@kadiryel6237]

This really is the perfect time for Cole to drop The Fall Of. I think only he can revive the current situation of hip-hop now, especially thinking how much he has hyped it well over the past 6 years.

[@dalonbranch8270]

🤨

[@otis5369]

When was the last time he put out a good song ?

[@kadiryel6237]

@@otis5369 Might Delete Later was actually really good for a surprise mixtape

[@kingbando417]

@@otis5369him and Rocky’s song was good and might delete later was fire

[@pronuisance]

Not really what we need is something different I haven’t listen to the past 2 Cole albums

[@carboodle610]

Came here to say Blue Lips is Q's best album to date, his craft is like fine wine. AOTY in my humble opinion

[@freddiepaulson8326]

Hip hop was meant to be underground by design. 2024 has been an amazing year for rap but not mainstream rap. Q, vince, mavi and boldly all had amazing releases this year.

[@saintkevinofficial]

these people only exist in your bubble. The masses (99% of people) don't know who tf these guys are.

[@freddiepaulson8326]

@@saintkevinofficial ik but that is how hip hop is meant to be. Think about how it came up, through underground battle raps in the Bronx. Its about integrity and not selling out. It was never meant to be mainstream.

[@Akachi_]

​@@saintkevinofficial Hip hop wasn't a mainstream thing in the beginning. It became mainstream when labels started chasing trends, club music and numbers

[@MR12AMAZING]

@@saintkevinofficial F*ck what the masses think, people are sheep anyway.

[@DollaSignD]

@@MR12AMAZING +1

[@Shinyshoesz]

I think you hit the nail on the head at the end there -- it's just an ebb and flow. A lot of those records and artists you mentioned not getting sales had very good albums from a music perspective. I loved Schoolboy's new stuff, and I loved ASAP's singles. Granted, I grew up with both of them. But it's honestly for the best if hip hop has a little dark age and encourages other to innovate.

[@nicenrique6493]

Bro did you forget about Lil Uzi Vert? And the guys that were supposed to be the new leaders of rap were Xxxtentacion, Juicewrld, Uzi, and Carti. But two of them died, the other two never drop music.

[@cartitasty]

carti is the new leader of rap though, no?

[@RedTheDesmoDemon]

Carti got the most hype out of anyone rn he far from gone

[@cartitasty]

@@RedTheDesmoDemon carti the goat

[@DRxxx-bh2wm]

Lil Uzi lol

[@IllegalPizza777]

@@cartitasty no.

[@lezmez-qk2bb]

Don’t be dumb will end world hunger

[@castfive4038]

I hate it when people say there was no leaks like bro I got them all on my phone

[@tyrannosaurushands]

Am the only one who finds it odd when people only call rocky just A$AP instead of A$AP Rocky or Rocky? To me It's like calling Patrick Mahomes the entirety of the Kansas City Chiefs when you're only referring to Patrick Mahomes. Even though he's the biggest artist in the collective A$AP still a collective. Maybe im just being pedantic or have played too much call of duty so im used to ignoring words or acronyms of team names before a person's name.

[@yng27]

Nah rocky has legit said it himself to not call him a$ap because he’s not a$ap he’s rocky hes a$ap inside and out as part of the collective he helped grow but that’s not his name

[@MR12AMAZING]

Most people don't know about A$AP Mob, they just think that's it's a first name.

[@destroyuhh8001]

I’ve seen multiple people say that the reason we haven’t seen any or a lot of new faces in hip pop or rap at all is because they all died,like xxxtentacion and juice wrld being probably the biggest examples

[@cristianjofre1607]

Lol, Wasn't the "Nirvana Moment" like 7 years ago with mumble rap, meme rap and the soundcloud pink dreads era with the Uzi's and Travis Scott's doing hip hop edgier, simple lyrics, carried by the production and kinda dumber, like everybody was saying "oh, this is soooo punk, sooo grunge and edgy, so different to the 2000's". Thats it, that was hip hop's reset cultural moment... and its over. If anything we are now in Hip Hop's "Post Grunge" era (wich means the artist and now lamer, cringier and the general public got bored of the genre and decided to explore other genres and styles of music doing cooler stuff right now cause thats life)

[@saintkevinofficial]

Accurate analysis. It's actually so over. Hip Hop, Rock, Reggae, R&B, Soul, EDM and so on. Extremely unfortunate.

[@nicholasn.2883]

who was nirvana

[@GearZNet]

Yep, it died in its crib. It died with Peep, X and Juice. They were going to be massive and all died in their early 20s. There hasn't been a person to break the mold like them and I don't think there will be this decade. Hip Hop is entering its: Nothing But HipHop era.

[@DollaSignD]

underground still booming tho. e.g. jpegmafia/madlib/jay worthy changing the game.

[@gpics900]

I thought all the singles were pretty well received especially Hijack & Ruby Rosary. And Tailor Swif did pretty good I mean they debuted pretty solid on the Hot 100. I just think A$AP’s rollout in general is just all over the place really like he’s inconsistent with his promotion

[@MR12AMAZING]

They were the worst selling singles of his career. Tailor Swif was the highest performing one and that only debuted at 84 which is horrible for an artist on the level of Rocky. It's even worse when you consider that this is his first album in over 6 years so you'd expect there to be more hype around it. I think he's suffering the same fate as Big Sean, Logic and most other rappers from his era. Unless you're Kendrick, Cole or Drake, it's hard to sustain that level. I do agree that his rollout wasn't the best. He's dropped so many stand alone singles over the past few years that I didn't even realise these recent ones were for the new album.

[@barsthehippie]

The rollout was disappointing ?? Fam?

[@devgontshi1872]

dj Ebro said this in one of his shows that ' us Hip Hop enjoyers and people deeply rooted in this culture should stop listening to critics about Hip Hop because majority of this critics come from people who don't know anything about Hip Hop , culture and are just people who just came across it for the first time"

[@GearZNet]

Which is fair... but the sales say it all. Hip hop as a genre is dying or at least going through a lull. The formula is getting tired and no amount of reminiscing on the 90s by old heads like Ebro is going to fix that. The young talent that was going to revolutionize the genre died in their early 20s and the remaining talent is making the same old 💩that would fit right in with 2012 drill music. The few really revolutionary sounds don't drop enough and/or aren't personable.

[@Person-door]

Your editing style is really nice 🎉

[@LinEll22_]

I like that you used the Kendrick Lamar instrumental for the Hip Hop is dying part. It's fitting.

[@Mossy_Fat]

I hope he doesnt go to prison

[@ehlohimwhil5762]

I really enjoyed the entire video and subscribed But I’ll say , you definitely proved your own point when you said “hip hop originated in Harlem” It definitely didn’t

[@swansonjoe7121]

The end of rap is crazy The return to pop is back 😭😭

[@MR12AMAZING]

You do realise Pop music just means Popular music. Rap music can also be pop music. A lot of the music that rappers like Juice Wrld and X dropped would be considered pop.

[@swansonjoe7121]

@@MR12AMAZING 🥱 u know what i mean stfu

[@Trxpamvs]

This take kinda stupid when you consider that the biggest pop culture moment this year was literally a rap beef, considering Rocky I’m pretty sure he’s just scared to drop because every single time he dropped an album someone very important and close to him died look it up that’s no joke

[@RichardJork]

Rocky about to pull a YG and sell 8k

[@aXeL-qr9xs]

I totally agree with what you were getting to at the end with the genre of rap just being over saturated with people hopping on an already popular sound, and not really giving a fuck about the music. Most of these guys coming out not really making something special just something good enough to garner attention so they can use it as a launching pad to become successful when it comes to making money it’s not like they really have a love for the craft. Which means at this point it’s just tons of people that are trying to sound like opium or hyperpop bullshit.

[@2rocco]

frank ocean effect is basically just the gta effect

[@Tholi]

4:30 - Yes, there were leaks. I have 17 leaked songs on my phone from Rocky.

[@MrKomentator77]

9:39 death of Juice WRLD, XXXtentacion and Pop Smoke is one of the reasons we have noone to take the torch :( That was like the biggest 3 from the youngest rappers...

[@lamp9478]

all the artist who were genuinely good and had potential to rewrite the rap genre, have died. Mac miller, juice, triple x, pop smoke and some others are all dead. Mac would be killing it right now imo aswell which sucks that he cant cause he died. Everyone that could make rap better has died atm.

[@dr.drizzy2]

love this

[@cartitasty]

Mac wasn't really changing anything though

[@finnthedogg4521]

​@jacksimp-r9k he kinda was though, only bigger rapper to produce, and record all of his own instrumentations.

[@cartitasty]

@@finnthedogg4521 so? he wasn't changing anything. plus, he admitted to stealing beats from black artists. mac would be irrelevant today, in fact, he already kinda was before he died

[@finnthedogg4521]

@jacksimp-r9k terrible of him to do so yeah but at least he could openly admit it. Seems like you just hate him for that and have built your bias on that.

[@jaymesmean]

Lifestyle rap is where its at right now. Smooth enjoyable music we can relate to.

[@MoeRealer]

The passing of artist like juicewrld and xxx has left an impact we didn’t think about as well. Really felt like they were next in line so it’s leaving a whole with no one to carry the torch but the genre as a whole has been affected my lots of deaths in the most recent years and incarceration.

[@amanitomushroom]

Can't speak on other countries but here in Latvia big part of hiphop fans have switched to listening to local artists. The music resonates a lot more and the culture here is just getting more and more diverse and interesting.

[@lorddpablo9651]

The pandemic fucked up everything.

[@GearZNet]

Nah the problems started about 2+ years before the Pandemic when Rappers who were leading culture shifts within the genre died year after year after year. Lil Peep, Xxxtentacion, Juice World, left voids that no one has been able to fill.

[@SSIILLAASSS]

This is maybe true numbers wise. But i think that hiphop and rap is just shifting and evolving like genres do. In my eyes, artist aren't afraid of experimenting, like they were just a couple of years ago. I think most artist today are trying to make an important and timeless work of art more than making the hit of the year. I could be wrong. This is just my perspective.

[@DiscreetNYC]

Hiphop originated in The Bronx not Harlem

[@darrianedwards1695]

“So next album fuck around and make you wait 'til Christmas” - A$AP Rocky

[@barsthehippie]

The way i look at it is, nobody is buying albums because they can stream it. Most people are already subscribed to apple music, spotify or KZbin music.

[@Erons1528]

In today's world, album sales don't necessarily refer to physical copies sold and instead describe a general metric to measure audience engagement. An album sale is the equivalent of 1500 streams meaning if a project sold 12K copies then it garnered 18M collective streams. So rappers gaining low albums sales simply means so one's listening to their stuff.

[@barsthehippie]

@@Erons1528 i hate streams numbers bruh, very informative though i appreciate you 🤝🏼

[@nintennerdz6939]

Every single been fye Tf you talking about😭 Also the Sofaygo disrespect is insane, he's over someone like Ian I can't believe you as a Journalist would do that

[@devantesinclair9109]

ASAP should drop a collab album with Tyler unexpectedly that shit gonna pop regardless 🎉🎉😂😂

[@worldcorpenterprisesarchive]

THE *END* OF *RAP*

[@boolnrelaz3883]

i took an elective at my university about popular music history and one big takeaway of that class was how there's somewhat of a pendulum swing when it comes to liberalism vs conservatism in popular music. It doesn't really sync with the liberalism-conservatism pendulum of politics, but it is its own independent thing. In the 50s, rock-and-roll was seen as a sexually liberal thing, and after a few years in the sun, there became a counter-culture movement of conservatism with country rock and folk coming along in the early 60s (e.g. the byrds, bob dylan), there also became a focus on "being posh" (e.g. the supremes, the early beatles/who). Eventually the pendulum swung back in the late 60s with psychadelia and the sexual revolution. The early 70s saw a return to more "sophisticated" sound (prog rock), and then in the late 70s there was a return to liberalism (via disco and punk). Recent hip hop is an extremely liberal thing, and the pendulum has recently swung to genres that do not emphasize such topics. Country is currently going through a renaissance because younger people are rejecting the major themes of recent hip hop. I'm a few years removed out of college and I recently saw a sorority house and they were ALL wearing cowboy boots, just a few years ago it was off-white nikes and yeezys! In general, hip-hop and "ignorant" hip hop will go back to the underground and will maybe re-emerge in the late 20s when the pendulum swings again

[@garyfrankenstein8078]

playing watch the party die while talking about artists blowing up the rap bubble by using and disrespecting rap as a launching pad for themselves was so perfect.

[@JORDANSTO]

WE JUST GOTTA ENJOY THE MUSIC AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT THE NUMBERS 😂

[@saintkevinofficial]

you think music is free to make? you guys get to sit back and consume without having to spend a penny. You are in no position to say numbers don't matter. People have to put food on the table.

[@youknowjaye]

god if i had a dollar from every "rap is dying" take, i'd be a rich man

[@neon_goth]

Don’t put faygo in that section😭💔

[@junkspiritual]

it cant be ignored that we lost a generation of come and coming talent and legends in the making. XXXtentacion, juiceworld, popsmoke were all certified hit makers and trend setters that all captivated the youth in ways no living newer has - with the exception of carti - all died before 22. and theyre only three of the most prominent and immidiate examples, you could also looks at; drakeo the ruler, lil keed, fredo santana, lil peep, mac miller, lil keed, king von, and countless others that very even got a chance to the thrive

[@austinbass7057]

love the house is burning shirt bro

[@ZALVPA]

puting Bhabie next to Ian is crazy

[@mazzapharaoh]

If he just dropped the album and then toured on it but also played even half an album's worth of his bangers too that would sell

[@Hopagola]

not the frank ocean strategy😭😭😭

[@Snowboard_johnny]

I would still consider kanye at the top, he's definitely falling off but i think he still has a few more years at the top. I also think one reason we have seen any rising stars stay at the top is because many of them, such as XXXtentacian and JuiceWRLD die before they reach the top.

[@bullwinklemoose4969]

I think a big thing too is people like juice wrld and x passed away and I think those are the two who would have most likely took the torch from drake, Kendrick, j Cole. Losing those guys set the genre back a decade.

[@tjayblu]

NOOOO WAAAYYY BLUE LIPS ONLY DID 34K?!!!!!!! And I WAS HONESTLYHAPPY WITH THE SINGLES FROM ROCKY EXCEPT TAYLOR SWIFF IT JUST SOUNDS SO OLD AND 2017-2019 ish too me

[@Yelamar1]

Asaps new music has been cold

[@adansc1068]

Xxxtentacion was the next wave. He was going to dethrown drake before kendrick went at him. Xxxtentacion had approval from the biggest rappers of our time. He was an incredible lyricist and his range and genre reach was unmatched... With his passing the industry had no modern push forward. Also worth mentioning is the death of key figures, legit lyrical rappers and sound shifters that would have changed the industry such as juice wrld, nipsey husssle, pop smoke and even mac miller since it seemed he was finally finding his sound which would have popularized jazz sounds the same way xxx would popularize rock/rage/alternative and more. These guys were really about rap while infusing other musical influences as frah new sounds... Not clout or money like all these new fucks coming around recently.

[@TerofiedBeats]

The hair metal comparison was on point

[@rockyjdr]

Is this video inspired by iusedtobepay’s video from about a month ago?

[@nxvqh]

I’d say the tiktok ban won’t be the game changer rap NEEDS to rebrand itself, but it’ll definitely keep talentless, lazy and in-general bland hiphop artists away from cashing out a viral moment in tiktok. Yea this genre will probably loose popularity yadayadayada but it should come back stronger.

[@ronnymontana5528]

The problem is definitely Tik Tok !

[@GustavoRosen-os1ns]

sales dont mean shit if the music, and artist's "staying around" or basically being popular for short periods isn't true as many dope rappers just don't get recognition from the mainstream fans

[@auntieabbs]

to not mention future at all when mentioning the greats is crazy

[@oad9r]

that and fanbased is older i think we guage hype from "younger" us older (25-30) (or fans who was apart of the real ASAP MOB rise) just want the album you dont have to do tik tok tricks to get us to buy lol BUT NOW you do so thats why i think his "buzz" is deflated but tbh his album rollout is usually the same couple singles and some AMAZING videos......and I love when we contemplate hype and buzz cause most of us are gonna have Asap's album in our spotify or apple library.

[@thaboletho7889]

bro u brazy Playboicarti got hiphop in his hands

[@JayMuggah88]

What is the instrumental used during the “Frank Ocean Strategy” explanation?

[@JohnOldJewish]

Drakeo really was on the come up

[@aidanhunter7535]

Ok but he only delayed it after Hijack… it’s not like he saw they flopped and then dropped… he was gonna have to do it either way

[@jwustrau420]

9:22 Im sorry but thats huge bullshit. I mostly agree w you, but if u cant see how much the genre developed in just the last 5 years, youre not looking for the music…

[@saintkevinofficial]

developed? mannn, go back to sleep

[@jwustrau420]

@@saintkevinofficial As i said, if you disagree, u just dont know the artists who push the genre. I dont blame you; many of them are rather unknown, because their music is often times rather special, but the culture is definetly moving and genre boundaries are blurring.

[@STARSFashionArtLove]

Hip Hop started in Da BRONX 🗽💖💛💚

[@Devthesportsjunkie]

Not the grippy song 😂

[@deathknutt]

nobody on mainstream anymore. underground is poppin

[@gopnikpokemaster5920]

the underground will drop heat until the end of time

[@beatsbyescyff]

I don't think that was the reason but I agree hip hop is dying right now and there's only a few few few talented rappers who would carry on after the big ones who been on top for years .. as a rocky fan i don't think he has a fan base it's more like a community that is interested in new musical sounds, street/urban/modern fashion and visuals of course .. it's an aesthetic pack in my opinion

[@ChaosInColour]

too bad aesthetic doesn’t matter to many anymore and if he doesn’t sell 200k albums first week he’s publicly shamed /:

[@beatsbyescyff]

​@ChaosInColour I respect ur opinion but when he dropped testing it was risky .. he said it himself I think in an interview.. he said something like he just put out the music he likes and see how it would turn out .. and testing is proof .. testing is a legacy love it or hate it

[@ChaosInColour]

@@beatsbyescyff i didn’t share my opinion? i’m agreeing with you but saying the hiphop pages and the mainstream audience will bash him if his album sales under 200k. i mf love asap haha

[@MR12AMAZING]

@@ChaosInColour Tbh I won't be surprised if he doesn't even sell 100k so be prepared.

[@aXeL-qr9xs]

Just realized you wearing Isaiah Rashad merch 🔥🔥🔥

[@isaacizues3245]

great video

[@mr.bassist1283]

Doechii is going to come in and save the rap game with her debut album. She needs to be more popular fs

[@colin1974]

Popular US rap has been dead for years. But don’t worry the UK has been keeping it very much alive. So no, rap isn’t dying, it’s just the US isn’t where it is right now. Although there are some great under the mainstream radar artists over there.

[@yungactivist]

Tbh this is time for rappers to start cooking again

[@R.O.J_]

this video is the definition of making a mountain out of a mole hill.

[@maxvideos3480]

the rollout songs have been great, the leak songs im more excited about, not sure whose been saying otherwise..

[@idk4.2]

I feel like rap has a piece missing from it mostly because of the reasons said in the video but partly because of the fall of the new age rappers in the 2016-2018 era like juice and X eitger dying or falling off because the leaders of their waves died so the hype in general was lost

[@muhammadshehryar3344]

Idk man, I think music is becoming more streamlined of how the listening genres are spread over like what people listen to, like I think it’s a good thing tbf, it’s a good thing, but yh like no one is really innovating that differently and idk this could give chances for maybe another genre of new music to devolop, happened with Rock Music in mid 80s and well Rap has been at the top for nearly half a century now you know so it’s time,

[@iyeleadja2899]

i gotta disagree his album can turn out to be a turning point. Hip hop in general It'll be going towards a renewal like an era of truth in the lyrics, or just the audience wanting something more relatable our awareness of musics affect on us is shifting. ASAP Shit finna be fire tho

[@Chandiwila999]

Did you change the thumbnail😭

[@BeauxLowe]

Vcarti going crazy. I'm gonna be the man next 10 years bet that

[@TyDTX]

Ts better be on the level of illmatic if we gotta wait 6 years.

[@crisisscenario]

I would say that is the cardi b method more than the Frank ocean method.

[@prodbyanimoe]

For me the answer is clear. U have 100 times more rappers that are killing the music side. And when you have the same number of listeners u have less streams for one rapper than u had in an era with just less rappers.

[@lvnchboxx]

7:08 background song ???

[@RedTheDesmoDemon]

Ppl said the same shit in 2010 and 11 and then trap happened and was a large chunk of the genre in 2010s with future, thug, travis, uzi. This time its going to be whatever happens with the opium style bc like them or not carti and them are on the way to being the next superstars and are the ones doing something new just like how gucci was.

[@SamiDaComposer]

rap is not dying its just on pause cuz every 10 years i feel like rap hits a reset or evovles kinda like a snake sheding skin but i will say there are two things that i noticed and keep noticing and is artist and critics.crititcs want something new.artist are only in for it for the money and not ART which is what Brought succes to the genre cuz of its truth in its ART and hip hop has lost that and many people see through it thats why i feel like if rap wants to be revived we have to pay attention to the undergrounf/small artist because thats where talent is at.its not 2009 where artits have to book gigs to be noticed when u have a phone.now second critics. crititcs ask to much and artits give that over surving the audience causing the lil babay effect:when one release to much music over saturating the listener. or it may be the carti effect:starving listeners.and this can cause fans to loose intriste being that we are in the day and age of a 2sec attention spand so listeners and crititcs will losse intrest.BUT IT ALL DUBS DOWN TO ONE THING AND THE LOSS OF TRUTH TO THE ART and this is coming from a artist/engineer myself i cant terll you too many talented/untelneted people who are in for it for the money ive recorded and ive been saying.Niggas aint rute to the art and i see why tyler said what he said about ian even tho ian makes great music.

[@kadenw968]

no one was calling them singles mid

[@pomm100]

His fans just got tired of waiting tbh

[@Whodnl]

Another tofu classic