4:44 certified platinum
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Better hope Drizzy ain't doing albums for another 10-15 years because he'll claim that record too.
Drake damn near over. Maybe 2 more albums as a top draw
Mr.Silver
Enlightening And Frightening
lol
Better hope Drizzy ain't doing albums for another 10-15 years because he'll claim that record too.
Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha
Superstar
a lot of people don't know this, even some people that work at record labels don't. literally heard from people at both virgin and def jam.
Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha
Superstar
your belief doesn't alter the truth
It will be once the hip hop website reviews trickle in. If they allow those
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
who would turn that down?not at all.
Jay-Z the rapper is different from Shawn Carter the business man.
The same way Apple Music gave chance $500k and a commercial to make his album an Apple Exclusive. Im sure Tidal and Sprint made a deal with Jay-Z (the artist), that in order for his album to be a Tidal + Sprint exclusive for streaming only they have to buy a million copies.
sounds like good business.
2manyFCKNrappers
mentally i measure kilos
From the looks of that Gene Deal interview, despite his talent Big would've got cheated and faded into oblivion like every other Bad Boy artist in the history of the label.
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
The music industry owes a truckload of money to Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services. Saved the whole ship. It took them embarrassingly long to adapt to the internet. Now they're actually seeing financial growth again.
JayBaldacci
All Star
Well all I'm saying is that if DMX died in 2000 he'd be viewed much different.
Mr.Silver
Enlightening And Frightening
it wud have been if not for this
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Sputnikmusic
Jul 2, 2017
JAY-Z tries to invigorate his musical career by connecting with himself for other people's sake. In total, it sounds like what it is, a business leader for whom the personal proves troublingly difficult to connect with.
they gave lil Yachty a 60 by the way
dis is the problem with metacritic
one wild review can tarnish a score
NOSaintsFan02
Superstar
Jay's always had a hard on for platinum in a week lol. He always wanted to be on that list with 50, Em, and Wayne.
I ain't mad at his business model and his sales are great no matter what method he goes about it but I'll never put him on the 1,000,000 mil records sold in a week list with the aforementioned artists
I ain't mad at his business model and his sales are great no matter what method he goes about it but I'll never put him on the 1,000,000 mil records sold in a week list with the aforementioned artists
I don't think u a hater or nothing
But why do everyone try to get in Jay head? What rapper would not want to sell 1 million in a week?
What would indicate he wanted to be mentioned with them?
Mr.Silver
Enlightening And Frightening
None of those nikkaz are at his table anyway
NOSaintsFan02
Superstar
His mention of it in the "A Star is Born" song (he also mentioned Em/Nelly sales in "Excuse Me Miss") and I'm pretty sure he tweeted happily when MCHG was certified platinum and used the new rules hashtag which is what some people are using in here.
Heck I even think he mentioned Kanye going plat in a week when he and Kanye were close even though Kanye never technically did.
It's just one of those things that he seemed to gradually always mention about and you just feel as a hip hop heavyweight himself it's one of the things he wants to acclaim: that he went platinum in a week.
And again, how he's approached his last two albums business wise I'm all for, but I still won't count it as going platinum in a week the same way I don't count Drake's Views going platinum in a week like some do cuz they try to add in streams now to inflate the numbers.
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