I can see we're going to have to do this hard way because you seem as dense as a brick, so:

1. Do you think Jay Z would have sold as many albums if he wasn't from NY or moved a little dope?

2. Do you see how idiotic those random hypotheticals are?

3. Pretty sure Relapse had a number 1 single, which is the exact same Jay Z and Wayne have over their entire careers. I'm not sure how well the singles from Encore did but I'm pretty sure they cracked the top 10 on Billboard. Recovery was the single most dominant hip-hop record until post-IYRTITL Drake/Post Malone came along, so you're obviously deluded there too

4. Why doesn't White America buy albums by other White rappers "regardless of quality or cultural relevance"? Lol, who do you think buys the majority of rap albums?

Isn't hardly a competition.

Taylor has been looking at Drake's FW numbers like WHAT ARE THOSEEEE

To be honest i have seen the nocta track suit trending on titktok . If drake bundled that or clb hat and shoes he could beat Taylor

If he bundled then we could have that convo yeah.

Hopefully he does with FAT D

Drake has her team SWEATING to come up with more bullshit remixes to try to block him from taking that #1 spot.

We most definitely will have to do this the hard way with your slow ass smh

1. I know you didn’t seriously suggest that Jay-Z has some sort of sales privilege equivalent to Eminem’s white privilege because he’s a d*** dealer from NYC. You can’t be that dumb. Ima just act like you ain’t say that.

2. Eminem HIMSELF is the person who originally proposed the hypothetical scenario of him being black instead of white would have resulted in way less sales.

“Let’s do the math if I was black I would’ve sold half/ I didn’t have to graduate from Lincoln hs to know that”

If Em acknowledges his own white privilege why can’t you? Probably because you haven’t acknowledged your own yet. I know, it’s probably hard for you but you’ll get through it. Or do you not know your favorite rapper’s lyrics?

3. Encore dropped in 2004, no way in hell you’re going to tell me it was anywhere near as culturally significant as The College Dropout or even Tha Carter. Relapse dropped in 2009 and “Crack a bottle” was #1 lmao. Naturally it was only #1 for a week due to the “it’s a new Eminem song so all of white America is tapped in” effect. Meanwhile Jay had the charts ringing with a real #1 for multiple weeks with Empire State of Mind. See what I mean? Anybody will tell you that “Crack a Bottle” is no where near as culturally significant as NY State of mind stop the cap. And btw recovery was 2010 so it’s irrelevant for 2000s AOTD.

4. While it is true that white Americans buy albums from all the rappers we are talking about it is a known fact that they show up in droves for Eminem specifically because he is one of their own kind. It’s not his fault and I ain’t knocking it it is what it is em still in my top 10 no question ijs he was far from the most impactful rapper of the 2000s musically even though the numbers say otherwise that was my original point

1. Lol, of course he has. The same way Meg the Stallion will sell more than a skill-equivalent Black female rapper because she has a fat ass. Every mainstream rapper has an edge that makes them sell more than their skill-equivalent peers, somehow it's only a problem when it comes to Em.

2. Here's the part I always find hilarious about Em haters quoting that segment of the verse, they never quote the full thing. Go on, listen to it again and tell me he wasn't talking about the pros and cons of being White in the game, rather than the pros like you all like to misquote

3. Of course, CD and C3 were more culturally impactful albums than Relapse and Encore, but were they more significant than TES and MMLP that decade? Was ESoM more of an impactful number 1 than Lose Yourself? You can't pick and choose which segments of the decade you want to use to defend an artist, the truth is Eminem had the highest highs.

And yes, Recovery was what pushed him into having AotD, check how it was calculated

4. But he is though, set your bias aside and look at the reality. What singles released in the 00s are still topping Spotify charts, are still being used for Tik-Tok videos, are still being used for ads?

I think you're underestimating how much of a worldwide phenomenon Em was in the last decade.

why every thread on ktt ends up being about race

this is america

Cold lmao

Drakula

tiktok.com/t/ZT8NDQkqs

LMAOOOOOOOOOO

I think he saw this thread .

I'm pretty sure he just posted that cause Travis passed him in monthly listeners a few hours prior to that and every rap page was posting that

Why would he care about Travis? Y’all are weirdos. I saw this dumb narrative on akademiks page too.

A rivalry? Lmao. Taylor Swift is blowing Drake out of the water in every conceivable metric. She is the music industry right now.

Taylor swift is scheming*. fixed it.

Respectfully you shouldn’t be calling anyone a weirdo

Respectfully

Morgan who?

Could be just poking at the rap pages and users posting that. It's not like he does it regularly, just posted a few hours after Travis passed him.

There is no rivalry. Taylor would’ve have done the same regardless who was dropping. She always goes hard during an actual new album release.

Meanwhile right now she has a song from 4 albums ago bubbling in the top 3 and she refuses to do much to push it to #1. Just discounted the price ahead of this tracking week but that’s it.

Besides, Drake isn’t in the same tier as Taylor. There’s no competition to be had there.