I Really don't understand how Travis Scott can sell 100k first week & Thug can't

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People are scared to admit they listen to thug, I'm not afraid. I am however finding it hard to defend him in any conversation with the small/weak minded people who always roll their eyes and bring up something gay.
 

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First of all,his name is young thug. I remember the first I heard that I just shook my head. Such an awful rap moniker. It sounds like a parody rapper name.


Further, his gay antics put a lot of people off. He's alienated a lot of people off top right there.

Lastly,he really isn't a good artist. I can bump a song here or there but his music is disposable.

He just doesn't connect with people at all. He's built himself up as a joke and people don't take him serious as an artist
 
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Thug makes mixtape music and says the same thing on every song. He just freestyles words that rhyme and don't make sense. His bars are trash as well.

And the general public can't understand his lyrics.

And he stole Wayne's image and style so only thing he has going for him is cross dressing for attention, dope flows and a unique voice.
 

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nikkas really in here tryna act like thugger don't have cac fans too? ::mjlol:

i saw a video of a thugger performance with NOTHING but cacs. :mjlol:

nikkas acting like he didn't get a kanye co-sign as well? wasn't he modeling in the yeezy szn 2 show? :mjlol:

the problem is his own fanbase doesn't take him seriously that's why. they listen to his free mixtapes and bump his singles on soundcloud but that's it.

a lot of his fanabase look at him like a joke like lil b.
 

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nikkas really in here tryna act like thugger don't have cac fans too? ::mjlol:

i saw a video of a thugger performance with NOTHING but cacs. :mjlol:

nikkas acting like he didn't get a kanye co-sign as well? wasn't he modeling in the yeezy szn 2 show? :mjlol:

the problem is his own fanbase doesn't take him seriously that's why. they listen to his free mixtapes and bump his singles on soundcloud but that's it.

a lot of his fanabase look at him like a joke like lil b.

Any rapper that big has cac fans.

But that's not his what his core fanbase is, last year I heard the Slime Season tapes getting burn in the hood 24-7...Check,Bestfriend,Power were in constant rotation at kickbacks and functions, he has the same core fanbase as Future,Gucci,Migos etc..white hipsters love him too and show up at his shows but him and Travis are not in the same league. I don't know too many nikkas that bump Travis Scott and most don't even know who tf he is.
 

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First of all,his name is young thug. I remember the first I heard that I just shook my head. Such an awful rap moniker. It sounds like a parody rapper name.


Further, his gay antics put a lot of people off. He's alienated a lot of people off top right there.

Lastly,he really isn't a good artist. I can bump a song here or there but his music is disposable.

He just doesn't connect with people at all. He's built himself up as a joke and people don't take him serious as an artist

this, alot of people think hes a Riff Raff type dude. which is his own fault

his name is terrible, and his beats are fairly generic. no reason for it to sell really
 

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People only fukk with Young Thug enough but not enough to buy his music.
 

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Any rapper that big has cac fans.

But that's not his what his core fanbase is, last year I heard the Slime Season tapes getting burn in the hood 24-7...Check,Bestfriend,Power were in constant rotation at kickbacks and functions, he has the same core fanbase as Future,Gucci,Migos etc..white hipsters love him too and show up at his shows but him and Travis are not in the same league. I don't know too many nikkas that bump Travis Scott and most don't even know who tf he is.
young thug's gay antics also make him more polarizing than those guys as well.

i've seen guys who fukk with future and guwop not want to fukk with thug because of the gay shyt.
 

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My mistake the Good music thing, he's signed there as a producer, not a rapper, but the Kanye cosign helps.

A Lil Wayne cosign would have helped Young Thug had he not tried to syphon his style in the first place. He did what Lil Wayne did to Juvenile with making 500 Degreez. So both Wayne and Young Thug deserve being screwed over like they have been
Yeah I was rooting for Thugga until he went at wayne then I couldn't fukk with as a fan anymore.

I like some of his shyt but he lacks replay value. His bars woat.
 

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Travis got the college scene on lock...

Thug is successful the thing is y'all look at sales for validity. He's not that type of artist he's a singles/mixtape based artist like French.
 

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That's easy.


Young Thug will never be bigger than what he is because he is a "hood" mixtape artist. Yes hype beasts love him too but he really hasn't been regularly exposed to more like Travis Had.

Travis Scott

True industry plant. Before Owls Pharaoh dropped he was performing songs at major festivals. His hype and exposure was multiplied when Yay signed him on as producer. Because of his Good music and Roc nation affiliation it has opened more doors and has given him more exposure. His fan base is more diverse. Eventhough he is signed to grand hustle as a rapper that Ye and Jay cosign has done wonders.

Youtube their shows and you would see the difference in their fan bases. Thug has more of a hood and female base while Travis has more of a hypbeast white kid fan bases. So you decide who will purchase more music? That's answer.
 

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Thug has way too many gimmicks, from the fake beef he's always stirring up, to the gay image, he's too all over the place.

Travis's sound is progressing and he's coming into hisself. He used to be very trash and very lame but he kept finessing his way into creating a cult fan base. And the way he performs makes a lot of people fans because it's part of his image, his shows are always entertaining to watch, I used to hate everything about Travis biting ass but he's becoming tolerable.

I got onto thug around 1017 thug and he wa absolutely amazing. I never heard anything like it, I could hear the Wayne influence but it wasn't biting it was just influence

But he has regressed. Greatly. Man leading up to slime Season 1 thug could do noooo wrong. Now he's just all wrong lol. I mean he still shows flashes of greatness Wyclef Jean from the last tape is ridiculous.
 
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