Why are Nicki Minaj and Cardi B both flopping now? Is it a wrap?

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No she didn’t. She has a no 1 single and other potential hits. Her albums usually have legs.

Albums don’t stop selling after the first week.

Unless you’re Nas :russ:
50k album stop tryna make excuses for a dogshyt rac00n mutt bytch that hating her black side :camby:
Acting like streaming farms for them likkle trash singles don’t exist that shyt a fukking flop
Bad Bunny clears her shyt within the first 5- 10 mins his album drops :dead:
 

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No she didn’t. She has a no 1 single and other potential hits. Her albums usually have legs.

Albums don’t stop selling after the first week.

Unless you’re Nas :russ:
It didn't go double plastic but it absolutely underperformed, as did every other single she released prior to it besides Paint The Town Red. Doja should be alright though.

For Cardi: She's shook about releasing because she really missed the best timing for her sophomore effort which would've been after WAP's success or even after her song UP. She's pushing her luck.

For Nicki: Even the Barbz aren't locked in and mass buying her singles like they've done in the past. Her antics outside of music don't help. The music is meh.

Meg is the one whose solo music I actually want to hear. She should have a chip on her shoulder from her experiences these last few years and her album Traumazine showcases this some. Bongos was NOT what she should've broken her musical hiatus for.
 

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Honestly I think they'll both be fine and are overthinking things. The bundle shift for albums ensures both can put up a respectable first week number. Is it going to be the big number they want? That's the question. Cardi did 255k last time. Nicki did 185k last time respectively. Generally do I see either hitting 200k or higher? Probably not, but I'm thinking 160-190k is reasonable. There's so much saturation in the streaming market that to really blow past the numbers they want, they'd need a more diverse audience/demographic. Drake is Drake because brehs, white boys, women, thots, etc are checking the album. Same for Cole, same for Kendrick, same for Future and a few others. There's certainly a demographic of men who will stream a Nicki or Carid album lol...but it's not a large group compared to what male artists get.
 

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Queen and the rollout/post-rollout says its been over for Nicki. She's appeared to have spiraled. Rocked for too many shytty people, and probably doesn't have the same industry friends (definitely still has them, but maybe too little too late in reaching out to more of the young broads)

At least Meg didn't really make no bones about her departure. Public grew tired of that shyt and she honestly had all the mental health/getting attacked and spurned by the industry-slash-redpill after her pop features flopped like flounder. After that trial she basically took the first open door to say im out. Probably will only feature with people she fukks with. Speaking of...

Never really liked Cardi's music but the buzz is there with the features themselves, but yep, somebody dropped the ball. I imagine her situation has been a mess since the beginning. Her money seems to be super right but the (likely) ugly shyt behind the scenes with her career is something that I wouldn't envy
 
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Also, I think rappers regardless of race and gender need to be ready for the transition that is likely already occuring in music. Genres like country and even regional Mexican music are charting highly and consistently. Rap is gonna have to evolve or it's gonna take a backseat to some of these other genres.

The guys and girls who are more versatile will probably survive, the ones who aren't(regardless of rap talent) may not.
 

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Also, I think rappers regardless of race and gender need to be ready for the transition that is likely already occuring in music. Genres like country and even regional Mexican music are charting highly and consistently. Rap is gonna have to evolve or it's gonna take a backseat to some of these other genres.

The guys and girls who are more versatile will probably survive, the ones who aren't(regardless of rap talent) may not.
What transition do you mean?
 
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