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Nah. Drake has a huge core fanbase. Where most of his casual fans are kinda 'meh' to most of his songs now, his fanbase is still streaming views every night from their iphone.

Though I do feel like J Cole's is growing while Drake's is just staying the same.
If anything it's the other way around IMO. Drake's core fans are meh to his new shyt while his casual fans who probably never heard songs like The Ride and Fear are streaming the shyt out of Views.
 

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this is why I love sales threads though. Cause yall can lie to each other and can control the narrative only #ONHERE. but then reality comes through and it hits yall delusional nikkas like a sack of bricks :pachaha:


nikkas basing a milli+ fan demographic on 5 coli posters and how they wish reality was. commit dat
My nikka :mjlol::wow::banderas:


fr though these nikkas the fukking worst :russ:

There's an argument to be made that J Cole absolutely sucks.
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Yeah probably. Drake is on the radio so much that looking back everything was fabricated. like he was backed by some one huge so he can't fail even though a lot of his stuff got like warm responses. j Cole was supposed to dissappear but ended up being bigger just by making rap songs. no rihanna. no big time corporations going at meek. whoever is pulling drakes strings is super powerful. wouldn't be surprised if drakes mom has old money bloodline.
 
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Y'all nikkas really bring up the most random/irrelevant shyt :mjlol:

Nah it makes sense. if I had a person to back my career with 50 mill. I'd personally have multiple diamond records by now especially hiw easy it is to cheat the system. I respect Cole becuase I know he never cheated the system.
 

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cole doing these numbers are certainly way more impressive than a fraud pop artist doing them thats for damn sure
 

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Nah it makes sense. if I had a person to back my career with 50 mill. I'd personally have multiple diamond records by now especially hiw easy it is to cheat the system. I respect Cole becuase I know he never cheated the system.

If all it takes is money to cheat the "system" and guarantee success where is Iggy and Macklemore and why are all these other rappers out here not selling as much
 
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If all it takes is money to cheat the "system" and guarantee success where is Iggy and Macklemore and why are all these other rappers out here not selling as much

They don't have deals as good as drake. Drake got like 20 million from apple. if you care more about fame than fortune and legacy why wouldn't you cheat the system? the only time you will receive lashback is when people find out and when it's all said and done and they feel cheated. in the heat of the moment you are a star though. pretty sure this is not the first time this happened in history.
 

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They don't have deals as good as drake. Drake got like 20 million from apple. if you care more about fame than fortune and legacy why wouldn't you cheat the system? the only time you will receive lashback is when people find out and when it's all said and done and they feel cheated. in the heat of the moment you are a star though. pretty sure this is not the first time this happened in history.

Drake got $20 million because he has shown to be able to be a large draw for his music, he wasn't some brand new unproven artist they gave the money to and he magically did the numbers he did. You are making it seem like any old billionaire investor can throw millions behind any artist and they would succeed no matter what they sounded like :martin:
 
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Drake got $20 million because he has shown to be able to be a large draw for his music, he wasn't some brand new unproven artist they gave the money to and he magically did the numbers he did. You are making it seem like any old billionaire investor can throw millions behind any artist and they would succeed no matter what they sounded like :martin:

Sure he did. and yes with today's technology I do believe that. if someone wants to spend their own 50 million to make soneone big. what big label would say no? regardless if they do well or not. you can easily fake it by buying your own albums or falsely streaming. you just have to not care about making your money back I'd you are the angel investor. the only people that would do that is family.
 

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If all it takes is money to cheat the "system" and guarantee success where is Iggy and Macklemore and why are all these other rappers out here not selling as much

Macklemore didn't necessary cheat the system. He's been independent for the longest only to catch that one break...

Iggy, on the other hand is something straight manufactured by the industry and got exposed for it. It's ironic to me that Drake and Iggy are hardly any different from each other but Drake actually has corporate backing whereas Iggy does not which makes her disposable. In fact that's the REASON why a loyal core fanbase is ESSENTIAL, because fickle fans come and go. You DO have to give Drake some credit though, I dunno if it was J. Prince that hipped him up some game, but Drake business savvy on the record industry is remarkable and he knows how to use it to his advantage.
 

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i don't think j cole can sell out the american airlines center here in dallas. drake did
 
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