It’s a step down from 1nikkaz didn't like Magic 2
Albums Nas & DJ Premier - Light-Years (Discussion Thread)
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Piff Perkins
Veteran
I'm not sure I believe the manipulation moves the needle more than what labels were doing in the mid/late 90s and early 00s when it comes to shipped vs sold lol. The fukkery today costs more than its worth and you don't really get anything from it. Remember the fukkery Joel Ortiz was doing a couple years ago with fake Youtube streams, when he was trying to get Budden to get in the booth? If nobody cares about the music it doesn't matter what you try to do. I remember when Drake dropped Scorpion and people complained that he had tracks on jazz playlists and every other playlist imaginable. Yea I guess that helped but end of the day my mom, who doesn't fukk with rap besides like 12 songs (mostly Pac, Em, Coolio, and If I Ruled The World), was dancing to multiple tracks from that album all year. Everybody heard In My Feelings, God's Plan etc. The shyt was undeniable, the playlists really didn't matter.
prophecypro
Hollywood North
I don’t know why there’s all this lamenting about his sales and throwing 5k when that’s not even confirmed or real. It’s also weird that Drake stans are saying Nas “picked a side” on Twitter and saying all this goofy shyt. He probably did the same as Magic 3
Going forward with the business model of indies and shipping after the date he probably won’t chart on billboard like that anymore and that’s probably by design for him. He’s only started to promote the album a week after its release on his socials so I’m sure they want to boost it
Going forward with the business model of indies and shipping after the date he probably won’t chart on billboard like that anymore and that’s probably by design for him. He’s only started to promote the album a week after its release on his socials so I’m sure they want to boost it
Tommy Gibbs
Superstar
nobody cares about album sales but drake/kendrick fans and teenagers. Do you own a record label or have you ever read a billboard magazine? I'm sure you havenThat’s all fine and dandy but this shyt isn’t reaching people and got a lukewarm reaction at best
The long awaited Nas and Premo album doing 5000
And no matter how much he selling them vinyls or collectors items for the fact of the matter is profit isn’t being maximized nor is the art being digested at the level that it should
Nas is a legend, a multiplatinum artist he shouldn’t be doing niche Griselda numbers
. They don't care about these streaming numbers/sales and neither should you. The thing that you don't realize is that the people who like the album are in my age group and most of us don't do streaming.
Tommy Gibbs
Superstar
If you don't like the album, WHY are you looking for a video from it?
I do like the album why is it so black and white ? I have criticism but it’s still a good album and my goat is nasIf you don't like the album, WHY are you looking for a video from it?
I can’t have critiques. ? I don’t get yall
JayBaldacci
All Star
8/10
FlyGuy
pimp of the year
What do you need a video for? Listen to the damn music
When the fukk did hiphop become so commodified where you need all these in-universe tie-ins
Nas is an MC
Premier is a DJ
They make MUSIC
And as someone who has been a fan of both my whole life they did a damn good job
Criticisms on the beats, rhymes, sequencing etc is all valid but all that other shyt is dumb
He talked about this on Wu for the children. That’s why you can’t even talk to some people, they don’t focus on what you give them, only on what they projected you could give them
Alexander Wiggin
All Star
Music videos help enhance the music experience tho. There's some songs that I only started to appreciate when I saw the clip. Just imagine thriller without the video clips. I guarantee you pause tapes with a video clip would have a much better reception
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