More artists should do this.

But most new acts cant remain relevant for over a year so they rush to throw albums out.

doom metal band Pentagram

formed 1971, debut finally released in 1985

5 and above give it a shove

Papoose

And his debut was prolly his most underwhelming project.

Niggas dont know how to cook anymore. You're writing and recording for your debut for years. You're supposed to be cherry.picking the best songs for the album and put out the rest as mixtapes, ep's. The album should be the culmination of your creative process, not just another project.

The Nacerima Dream was prolly the most unanticipated of all these lol.

I still f*** wit Pap tho lol

Ever hear of a guy named despot

Saigon's debut took forever. His buzz was basically dead when Atlantic finally dropped him and he put it out independently with Surburban Noize.

Another reason why I dont f*** with Just Blaze. He really dropped the ball with Saigon.

Kendrick didn’t take forever but he was working on gkmc for at least 3 years prior to release. We know from the gkmc name drop in hood gon love it n more

only if you’re rounding to 10s

by that logic, one US presidential term is basically 0 years, since it’s only 4 years

The U.S. education system has failed me

it has failed us all

the concept of album/mixtape/ep whatever has been completely obliterated for a while now. it’s just marketing

for all intents and purposes B6 was his debut

Bad sales

Still waiting on the Ameer Vann album

Desiigner

Radiohead

Formed in 1985 but didn’t drop an album till 1993

yea he dropped the ball