what Lil Baby has achieved in two years..

[Sohh_lifted]

The fact that he was able to achieve this after rapping for only 36 months means that he is either a prodigy in the vein of Beethoven or Nas



Or that modern rap is so garbage that even a former stripper can do it and win a Grammy for album of the year

 

[hex]

they need to take a look into streaming numbers and make it at least 5-10x higher numbers required to gain these plaques

as example,

Drip Too Hard a marginal fairly big single but nothing ground breaking is 5x plat impressive right

but Coolio Gangsta Paradise, easily the biggest single of 1995 is also 5x plat which was the biggest song in the entire world for multiple months

On paper, Drip Too Hard would be considered a bigger single than Coolios Gangsta Paradise? get the fukk outta here

This. Streaming numbers are fake as a $3 bill to any objectively rational person but people will say you're hating.

Fred.

 

[hex]

Thread is straight comedy though because cats took numbers from a Twitter account with 1,000 followers and just ran with them.

If you check RIAA he's short around 8x plat. I guess it's possible RIAA hasn't updated his numbers yet but it's equally possible a random guy on Twitter don't know what the fukk he's talking about.

I don't understand why fan = all logic goes out the window on The Coli. Freddie Gibbs is my favorite current gen rapper, if a random Twitter account claimed "Bandana" did 2 billion streams or some crazy shyt I'm immediately gonna call

Fred.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Plus how can we be certain the people who stream a song even like it? Maybe they’re just curious to hear it and then decide it’s trash afterwards.

All this streaming shyt is suspect as hell and none of these “hits” are really moving the needle at all.

You don’t have to like it. You heard a lot of shyt on the radio you didn’t like.

 

[Super Ramon]

That song is official. Was at a BBQ in the park yesterday for fathers day and when that song came on a bunch of teenage girls started going in.

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

WHO???

Baby baaaabbbaayy - biggie smalls

...........

Come rub my leg breh.

rub it yourself cornball...

Its aight.
We still lovers

In your fukking fantasies nikka..

#Pause

 

[SAINT]

 

[010101]

streaming cheat codes*

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Damn. Are all those physical copies????

If so, I'm impressed

of course NOT.

 

[itsyoung!!]

You don’t have to like it. You heard a lot of shyt on the radio you didn’t like.

hearing a song on the radio in the 90s didnt contribute/count as a sale/stream, not even comparable

Now leaving Pandora or Spotify on a playlist shuffle counts towards sales now, rather you like the song or not you contributed to their sale count in some way

 

[itsyoung!!]

Thread is straight comedy though because cats took numbers from a Twitter account with 1,000 followers and just ran with them.

If you check RIAA he's short around 8x plat. I guess it's possible RIAA hasn't updated his numbers yet but it's equally possible a random guy on Twitter don't know what the fukk he's talking about.

I don't understand why fan = all logic goes out the window on The Coli. Freddie Gibbs is my favorite current gen rapper, if a random Twitter account claimed "Bandana" did 2 billion streams or some crazy shyt I'm immediately gonna call

Fred.

Lil baby himself posted it on instagram

 

[itsyoung!!]

A lot of haters in this thread... Baby makes motivating music and has been going hard. He's earned his success

No one here is hating on lil baby or his success

We are hating on how the numbers are calculated

 

[hex]

You don’t have to like it. You heard a lot of shyt on the radio you didn’t like.

Not really understanding the logic here.

Spotify counts 30 seconds as a full stream. You could think a song is terrible by listening to 30 seconds and still contribute to an artist's over all numbers. The same cannot be said for any point in history, prior to now.

Think about all the songs you heard on the radio back in the day....switched the station because it was wack....now imagine every time that happened it counted towards an artist going gold/plat. shyt is straight lunacy breh.

Lil baby himself posted it on instagram

Where, because I don't see it anywhere.

The only thing I see in relation to his streams/certification is this:



4 billion streams world wide which is completely meaningless since there isn't an organization that counts world wide numbers. This is like when Young Thug got a "plaque" for 2 billion world wide streams or whatever it was, then did 35k first week.

Fred.

 

[AMcV'88]

Thread is straight comedy though because cats took numbers from a Twitter account with 1,000 followers and just ran with them.

If you check RIAA he's short around 8x plat. I guess it's possible RIAA hasn't updated his numbers yet but it's equally possible a random guy on Twitter don't know what the fukk he's talking about.

I don't understand why fan = all logic goes out the window on The Coli. Freddie Gibbs is my favorite current gen rapper, if a random Twitter account claimed "Bandana" did 2 billion streams or some crazy shyt I'm immediately gonna call

Fred.

man i don't give a fukk about none of that streaming shyt. (having to read some of the tedious shyt posted on here surrounding whichever Drake album the streaming numbers discussions started with ensured i could never care about it.) i just saw the tweet checked his IG to see if it was true (its been deleted now), thought good for him and it was just a quick an easy thread to give the boy his recognition for the good work he's put in in a small space of time. especially since he's been quiet.

i'm cool with these kids bragging about these wild streaming numbers because they'll never know what its like to shift proper units.

i'm sure you seen the desperation Khaled went through over that album shyt all for what ? 150K first week and to brag he had the Number 1 album so he could do a whole other round of promo saying he had the number 1 album. it's a joke.

while you wait for Gibbs though, be sure to check out his new single on Friday.

 

[tremonthustler1]

hearing a song on the radio in the 90s didnt contribute/count as a sale/stream, not even comparable

Now leaving Pandora or Spotify on a playlist shuffle counts towards sales now, rather you like the song or not you contributed to their sale count in some way

Streaming a song once doesn’t = 1 sale though. How many times do you stream a song before you realize you don’t like it?

If he’s doing 5x plat off a song, then that means it had to have been played millions upon millions of times.