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The Lady Gaga SongWhich one?
The Lady Gaga SongWhich one?
The Lady Gaga Song
Despite the sales On Chill continues to do well
Hitmaka didn’t produce On Chill it was LT Moe, & Wale always has a hit lead single throughout his history with various producers.Honestly top airplay just means your label is putting that bag behind your record. The reason "On Chill" is getting pushed to the moon even tho Wale is "cold" is because Hitmakka produced it. He's the VP of A&R at Atlantic, which is under Warner Brothers (Wale went from Atlantic to Warner Brothers this album). WB is gonna push this to the moon because this is a song in their system with their "golden producer."
It makes them look good and has nothing to do with Wale. You see he was ranting about how they were messing up his album rollout last week. Yeah, because they don't care about him as an artist. They're are only concerned about Hitmaka's song doing numbers.
Add in the fact that Wale has a personality that makes him unlikeable and that means the staff isn't going to work hard to promote him.
A Boogie might be the exception to the ruleI feel like you need a big ass white fanbase to generate real sales.Kendrick, Logic etc., everybody who go platinum in this era, all have huge white fan bases. Young nikkas who rap street shyt (i.e. NBA Youngboy) all have young ass white kids on lock. Wale got a huge hit in urban radio which don't translate into album sales. It's mostly white folks buying albums, going to concerts etc. The whole concept of buying albums been played out for years.
Like been played out since the Best Buy/Sam Goody buying physical CD's era if we being honest. Why buy a record when you can hear the whole thing on YouTube whenever you want? Jay Z smart because you can't hear most of his catalog on YouTube and basically have to buy his shyt unlike everyone else.
Unless the machine pushes you and overrates your music, you won't be seeing sales like that unless you're white or have gained a white audience thanks to the machine pushing you down everybody throat.
Even though Wale got a huge hit song, the machine ain't pushing him as a person. Whenever K Dot, Logic of J Cole drop a sing or album, every white ass mainstream publication do a damn mini-biopic on their lives and say how they are changing music, raising the bar etc. etc. etc.
the machine creates album hype. I ain't even know Wale had an album coming out. But when Logic, K Dot or Cole coming out with an album, you already know even if you don't give a fukk, which I don't.
I feel like every album the machine has labelled as classic in the last ten years is not a classic and couldn't hold a candle to a bad 90's rap album, but the machine needs masses of white folks to believe that shyt is classic to buy it.
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I’ve been saying this for years. It’s simple math. There’s 250 million white people and like 30 million black people in this country.I feel like you need a big ass white fanbase to generate real sales.Kendrick, Logic etc., everybody who go platinum in this era, all have huge white fan bases. Young nikkas who rap street shyt (i.e. NBA Youngboy) all have young ass white kids on lock. Wale got a huge hit in urban radio which don't translate into album sales. It's mostly white folks buying albums, going to concerts etc. The whole concept of buying albums been played out for years.
Like been played out since the Best Buy/Sam Goody buying physical CD's era if we being honest. Why buy a record when you can hear the whole thing on YouTube whenever you want? Jay Z smart because you can't hear most of his catalog on YouTube and basically have to buy his shyt unlike everyone else.
Unless the machine pushes you and overrates your music, you won't be seeing sales like that unless you're white or have gained a white audience thanks to the machine pushing you down everybody throat.
Even though Wale got a huge hit song, the machine ain't pushing him as a person. Whenever K Dot, Logic of J Cole drop a sing or album, every white ass mainstream publication do a damn mini-biopic on their lives and say how they are changing music, raising the bar etc. etc. etc.
the machine creates album hype. I ain't even know Wale had an album coming out. But when Logic, K Dot or Cole coming out with an album, you already know even if you don't give a fukk, which I don't.
I feel like every album the machine has labelled as classic in the last ten years is not a classic and couldn't hold a candle to a bad 90's rap album, but the machine needs masses of white folks to believe that shyt is classic to buy it.
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I fukk with Wale so nobody take this as hating but the city don’t have enough love for him to do that. I was in &pizza and he was in there the day the caps won the chip last year. Nobody was even trying to approach him. I don’t even think nikkas really recognized him. He was with Phil Ade, another of his homies and like 2 chicks. The &pizza in DuPont CircleGone head dive into fashion Wale, open a boutique in Georgetown and get it popping
To be fair, dude could had brought DC Go Go to the mainstream if he would had rolled that style he had on these songs:
Instead, he went the opposite direction with whatever the hell only for rappers like J Cole take his introspective style and succeed with it.Cold world when you can't find your style even though it always been with you from day one.