Joey Badass' new album 'Lonely At The Top' fails to chart on the Billboard 200 this week, with less than 9k sold first week.

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Hope Kendrick/TDE are not blackballing him because that would be wack.
You just said the album was trash, they don't need to blackball him. The labels aren't I tested in doing all that rollout artistic direction shut for rappers anymore. Pharrell is from when that shyt was happening and the Clipse have a clear vision for what they're doing.

To me, joeys shyt is still "hey, I listened to a lot of 90's NYC rap," that not an artistic direction as much as it's cosplay. But while I did think he won battle against all the west coast bums I thought Exquire shyt against him was nicer. I've always been a joey skeptic. :hubie:
 

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Album is one of the most disappointing rap albums I’ve ever heard, only played it once. He has a great discography, and I think B4 Da A$$ is a classic, but after all the West Coast disses I was expecting more hunger, it was just generic ‘I’m back’ rap with mediocre production
 

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New York simply isn’t relevant in hip hop anymore. :yeshrug:

At this point they really need to reinvent themselves like the west coast did and stop relying on old boom bap samples, the 90’s aren’t coming back B.
Pop Smoke was the one
they blew it :francis:
 

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To have a Clipse style rollout people would need to care about him. Joey is not like that. He should have just dropped a mixtape and kept reading scripts n
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If you one of them nikkas then the fans are gonna stop what they're doing and listen, despite promo and budget (Chance - Star Line). Joey clearly not one of them.

People just needed an opponent to cheer for because Kendrick was going too crazy in the summer.
 
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