Young Thug will never blow up

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Travis scott music doesnt leak because people dont check for him. He has some good songs and stuff but there is no actual Travis Scott fans, as in fan of the artist. Like that guy who did the down song with Wayne, great song, but nobody checked for dude.
 
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Yes...because we all know Lil Wayne blew up with his first album right?

This microwave generation is hilarious...*rapper doesn't release free classic mixtape 2 months after releasing classic mixtape*..."omg.....so and so fell off because I haven't had a free download in 2 whole months!"

YT will be huge eventually, mark my words
 
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MufasaChoppa said:
Why?


1. The way he rolls out new music sucks. Why oh why, does Thug not have his own Soundcloud where he drops fresh music in a controlled fashion (a la Drake)? As it is, every new thug song which gets released/leaked turns up in someridiculously obscure corner of the internet which only KTT seems to be able to find. Is the wider public going to find these? No. Would they find them and listen to them in a centralised point such as a Soundcloud account? Yes. He should cut down on the snippets too. There is no mystery/suspense behind the release of new Thug tapes, because we generally have an idea of half the songs on that tape.

2. Thug's camp is still prone to leaks, and there's no question last year's tidal wave damaged him. Loads of unfinished music which was never meant for public consumption, and a lot which will never see the light of day now. Forced him into releasing SS1&2, which many were unsatisfied by as they had heard some previous version of 75% of the songs. Imagine if those tapes had come out in a controlled way- Best Friend and Stunna dropping as loosies in the runup to SS1, with a solid release date given to the fans. The hype behind 2 quality loosies would have made people a lot more interested in the tape and given it far more longevity after dropping if the music was fresh. He needs to tighten his camp up for good to prevent any leaks EVER happening again.

3. Flow of information should only come through Thug. BLB is an idiot. The guy gives out garbage, unreliable info every other day. All information should come through Thug himself, why do people need to go through his manager to get new information etc? It takes away from Thug's star, and he lets it happen. Thug should be the one responsible for giving fans information through social media, again centralising the flow of information so the public can consume it easily. Casual fans do not want to watch BLB's periscope all day for snippets of what seems to be 95% bad information. BLB should be invisible to the public, but it seems to me he wants to be his own celebrity. Not how it should be.

4. Thug needs to take lessons on public speaking and body language. The guy is clearly very uncomfortable in interviews, which is completely understandable. So take some lessons and improve on them! He has already missed out on so much free publicity by basically not interviewing at all for the last few years. The interviews he HAS done are painful to watch. He can hardly string a sentence together, and is squirming in his seat. Compare a Thug interview to the confidence of someone like 50 or Drake. Eloquent and relaxed. Thug is literally the opposite. I refuse to believe he is as stupid as he appears in interviews, and a lot of this must be down to confidence under questioning. Swallow your pride and use some of that money to improve your image Thug.

5. Lack of hot features. Thug has the power to turn a song into a gem when given a structure to work within (e.g. About the Money, Good Times, Throw Sum Mo, Bankrolls on Deck, Hookah, Lifestyle). Why isn't he on more hits?! His hook game is on point, he should be flooding the game with features at this point to build his mainstream profile.

Compare Thug to Travis. Thug is abundantly more talented when it comes to rapping/singing. Travis is doing so much better than Thug simply because he has extremely savvy marketing, and is able to put together a cohesive project. Travis' **** does not leak, and he has a vision for his music. He has direction. His rapping is weak and his music sounds overproduced (imo) but he knows how to control his image. It is a travesty that Thug is so far behind Travis at this point despite their comeups happening over a similar timescale.

I love Thug's music and think he has the potential to be a superstar... But i'm concerned if he carries on his current trajectory, his window of opportunity will pass by. His marketing strategy is diabolical. Someone needs to step in and manage this guy properly- support him with direction, structure and image, and let him worry about the music. If that happens, he just might shine.
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Answer two things for me..


1.) how much has the "fake" gay shyt tarnished him..? I'm out here in Chicago and I'm a huge thug fan, but I swear to god on everything when I bring him up to 90% of people in real life they all say the same thing, " I don't fukk with that fakkit shyt".. Most won't even give a listen becuz of the gay shyt.. and please explain why he thinks that was a good idea presenting himself like that


2.) he really hurts himself when he promises a tape coming out and then it gets cancelled outta nowhere... I was on Twitter the night SS3 was suppose to drop and a lot of people were waiting on it but then it didn't n it left a lot jaded... That's gotta be bad business
 
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CrimsonTider said:
Theres levels man.

I think he will enter that tier 2 (Big Sean & Wale) Level
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He will not. Notice all tier 1 and tier 2 rappers have little to no tattoos and outside of wayne and ross have no face tattoos at all anf they got majority of they neck/face tattoos after they already had successful albums out.

Basically what im saying is young thug (a horrible rap name doesnt help him either) has 0 marketablility.

Young thug ceiling is Gucci mane career. Nothing wrong with that. Can eat off tours in clubs the rest of his life and still make hundreds of thousands or more a year.

But selling 200k+ albums for a single album? To be tier 1 and 2 you gotta be marketable and do shows outside your element like jimmy fallon and ellen and shyt.. Youll never break into top tier rappers market if your biggest market is the breakfast club.

Young thug blowin up, Itll never happen. From his looks (pause) to his name - he was never gonna get bigger than where he is now


Im just being real :yeshrug:
 
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razassin said:
Young Thug is huge, GTFOH :camby:

He not pushin' records, cuz nobody else is... I mean who the fukk still dumb enough to buy an album when u can have it for free.... I kow these hackin' ass app developin' 18 year olds who make up his fan base ain't....

I think his beef with wayne has somewhat blackballed him from a couple hits here n there... But hes a true artist n I beleive there's still a lotta room for growth for him as an artist both musically and commercially
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MrPentatonic said:
What is blowing up in 2016 rap industry? Surely he has already lol

he is amongst the biggest new black artists listened to by young black people in the US & Europe
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y'all nikkas in here telling yourselves anything to make it seem better

yes black artists are pushing records... no it's not the 90s/00s but at least 15-20 artist did 80k-100k first week in the past year and change

so no young thug is not up there with any of them... he's not even doing better than his label mates the migos... and they ain't even doing shyt

stop listening to the internets... there are official numbers people can rely on to tell you how hot someone is... YT just isn't there


the OP explained why
 
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