This doesn't bode well for the Carter 6 hype btw
I'm rooting for him but he's looking like the least relevant of the original YM trio at this point...at that Nicki single with Spice had motion.
There's a single he dropped with Will.I.Am and I didn't know it existed until I looked it up...Kant Nobody came and went
Wayne is in a unique position where his most loyal stans are the people in the streets who f*cked with his older mixtapes, leaks, and features.
Wayne has an all star career but his main draw in rap was essentially being a Banks/Fab/Juelz type of rapper with the punchlines/bars and mixtapes. Wayne crossing over to the suburbs or White America was almost a mistake and due to perfect timing since Eminem was on hiatus, Kanye went Pop, Jay fell off, ringtone/snap rap was popping, and hip hop in general was in a weird rut in the late 2000's.
I knew, even back then, that the casuals and White fans who were on the Weezy wave would abandon him once his peers got back into their mojo and he stopped doing trash pop songs and Drake collabs to cross over. Once Wayne returned to his roots as a punchline/mixtape rapper, he would lose many of those White/Casual fans and the streets that f*ck with him wouldn't be enough to keep him dominant.
I said this as far back as 2013 when Wayne kept delaying IANAHB2 and he dropped that track with Future/Drake at the last minute to keep it from flopping. Wayne wasn't truly meant to cross over like Drake, Kanye, Em, or even Jay. He's trash at making crossover rap(which is the only advantage that Drake has over him) and he was always meant to be the Southern Banks/Fab/Juelz cause that's where his true strength was.
C6 could possibly do well with a bunch of Drake or other contemporary features but Wayne's mainstream fanbase declined so much over the years and Gen Z doesn't even f*ck with his music like that even though they still respect him for his influence and signing Drake/Nikki. Gen Z on Tik Tok ironically f*cks with classic 90's hip hop more than Wayne's old music. Go figure.