Do you feel emotional pain when your favorite rapper’s music flops? Keep it 100.

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If Kast (not 3k flute shyt) came out with a album and it flopped I would care. But that ain’t ever happening :beli:
 

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Nah

Growing up i was/still is a huge EPMD Hit Squad and Def Squad fan and always wanted each of their albums go gold or platinum

Fortunately majority of all the artists went gold
 

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Nah, but I assume that's the majority of Gen X. We had no way to track sales pre-internet and nobody (at least no one I knew) f*cked with Billboard due to their beef with Cube.

So it wasn't even a consideration. All that came with the internet and social media.

Fred.
 

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When have numbers become a thing? Most people(except Drake fans) listen to their favs and don't even care about that shyt, and I for one never looked at numbers until Not Like Us started going crazy.

There is so many good music that does not do well commercially, but who gives af.
 

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When have numbers become a thing? Most people(except Drake fans) listen to their favs and don't even care about that shyt, and I for one never looked at numbers until Not Like Us started going crazy.

There is so many good music that does not do well commercially, but who gives af.
lol

Numbers have been a thing since 2003-2004.
 

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I am talking about it being a discussion among normal fans of music at this length. I ain't never listened to a album back then and thought about first week sales or even sales in general :dead:
It’s been a thing.

And especially worse during the streaming era with Twitter.
 

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When have numbers become a thing? Most people(except Drake fans) listen to their favs and don't even care about that shyt, and I for one never looked at numbers until Not Like Us started going crazy.

There is so many good music that does not do well commercially, but who gives af.
50 (and Jay to a degree) made it a thing when they kept talking about it back around 2000.
 
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