Gained traction in 11 “album dropped” in 19

He didn’t “gain traction” until Lifestyle
You’re out of your mind if you think he was remotely known before then

Mixed my years up ur right

But can anyone answer now say B6 for example wasn’t an album??? It’s for sale...

It’s up to the label

he didn’t gain traction in 2011, that was the year he dropped his first mixtape lol he was still a not very well known local artist back then. Gucci signed him in 2012 just bc Peewee Longway was his friend, and he dropped 2 Cups Stuffed, his first semi-big single, at the top of 2013. Stoner & Danny Glover blew up towards the end of 2013. Lifestyle blew up in 2014. at best, you could say he began getting popular in 2013

Andre 3000

Damn that’s fkd

Even with him tho didn’t he have projects for sale and on DSPs? How was VL his debut?

Amazing album btw so sad we’ll probably never hear another album from him. Pop smoke, juice WRLD. Xxx and Mac Miller all dropped shortly after death. No new Nipsey leads me to think there is none

So it’s literally just semantics/ word games?

So there’s no real difference between B6 and so much fun. Both had original music and were for sale. Ones an album ones a tape

Jay Electronica

Yeh I mixed up plus aren’t u the guy who leaked a whole bunch of his stuff? Lol

Yes, same reason IYRTITL wasn’t called an album. It’sa way to fulfill your contract

Black Thought

nah that’s someone else

I think budgeting, marketing, promotion, contractual obligations and percentage splits all play some type of a difference in the way major labels now differentiate from albums and paid-for mixtapes

And he still hasn't lol

I testified about Victory Lap on OG KTT all 2018, I was so excited to see him follow it up

Your debut album is whichever meets the label’s sale projections now

3k

Thug has multiple albums (B6, Jeffery, BTG), it's just a marketing tactic calling it otherwise IMO

Nipsey dropped like 80 mixtapes

That was a collab album lol

The Aftermath Legends who finally released : Bishop Lamont, Stat Quo and Jon Connor

Dave East

Thugga got that 2-6 God stimulus on The London and broke through