we gon see next week
Meek Mill - Dreams Worth More Than Nightmares (Discussion Thread) *Stream*
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we gon see next weekCheaper than samples
But really, do rap albums really contain a lot more samples than they did back in the 90s?
Or early 2000s, just googling some random solo rap albums I see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jealous_Ones_Still_Envy_(J.O.S.E.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Don_Killuminati:_The_7_Day_Theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol._2..._Hard_Knock_Life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironman_(Ghostface_Killah_album)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenon_(LL_Cool_J_album)
I mean we still have cats like J. Cole who had 0 features, Drake had like 2-3 on 20 tracks.
I agree that too many features are wack, if you want features you should do it like Kendrick did with TPAB where they basically blend in with the music and are not "explicitly" features intended to be a selling point.
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somebody gon have to pm me. I never knew this had a release date
Meek always good for gym music
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has it leaked??
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Hope Meek blesses us with good summer music
neo6289
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might cop this to ensure he goes 3x plat first week
fukk you mean it doesn't work like this, that's what promo is. Rappers don't do interviews and radio ads anymore? They don't hand out promotional flyers at concerts? Rappers don't release a first single before the album, drop a video, and let out a pre-order link first anymore? The only people who don't do it like this are guerilla marketing artists who use unconventional ways of promoting the album like Jay with Samsung, but that's for A-listers who have the means and backing to do unconventional promo
None of this makes a person buy an album in 2015.
The only people buying the albums are hardcore fans that want to show "support" like @Gator Reloaded said
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This is all I was waiting on.
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Yes it does
Firstly not every 600k people who bought Drake's album is a hardcore fan, and not everyone who bought J. Cole's 300k is a hardcore fan. Secondly, if you don't have many hardcore fans or a ride or die fanbase in the first place, as is the case with most artists, how are you gonna sell if supposedly hardcore fans buy all the albums as you say?
And those things do make a person buy an album by first making them aware of the album and build hype for it. Not everyone is linked up to social media and the rap and blog spheres 24/7 and not everyone is going to hear about it through word of Twitter feed. Plus the game has also changed where streaming plays count towards album sales, so you want to get as much ears on your product as possible.
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I'm readyyyy
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