This is a very interesting day in hip hop

Danny Brown has been promoting the XXXX/Quarenta project for years now, the follow up to his classic breakthrough XXX. Needless to say the anticipation has been huge and the wait is finally over

Andre 3000, who we never thought we’d get an album from, surprise announced a flute album this week, and even though it’s not raps, I was still very excited to hear music from him

For a fan like myself, these two releases made this Friday one of the most exciting and eventful Fridays in a while. Was even starting to plan my listens, as I do

To my surprise, after these huge waits, both of these albums released early in NZ and therefore leaked today

Now I know, this is pretty normal. But now instead of lining up to the streaming service ready to listen, I can just download listen today. A little bit anticlimactic for these releases, no?

Then add the fact that Drake is dropping now and will be taking most of the music discourse attention tomorrow (even though he’s not in direct competition with these artists), an unfortunate break

Idk I just find this interesting. Shouldn’t these have been worldwide releases so we all rush to tune in when they drop? By tonight, I’ll have already heard these and be waiting on Drake. Not great strategy. The boy wrong for kind of stepping on them too

What do y’all think?

I can’t believe you made a whole thread on this.

No one outside of chronically online nerds (including myself) know that these albums are out early on random sites. People don’t spend their weekdays downloading zip files a few hours early. It’s just not that deep

Can someone ban you already?

Good music will always prevail in the long run. Doesn’t matter who’s more popular.

Can’t believe I made a thread about music nerd s*** on a music forum my bad

Streaming is easy and convenient. Piracy has went back to the minority of people. Most people with s*** to do can wait to press one button at 10 pm tonight

Doesn’t bother me. I’ll listen Friday morning when they are on Spotify

Exactly lmao

Ok this patience

I bet 99.9% of people don’t know about music releasing early in NZ or care about leaks. Most people don’t even know their favorites dropped an album until someone they know tells them or they come across it later while scrolling social media. It’s not that deep lol

actually early release was good for both because tomorrow they're getting less spins for sure

also this

Yeah that’s fair, but ofc im coming from a music nerd perspective

every album drops early in nz this didnt start happening w them two

But they don’t get anything off my spins today

Not every album, most releases that people care about don’t do this. That’s why I was surprised that it happened to these two albums

most releases

yeah but u know if they're good and worth listening to

assuming they're good tapes you'll listen again

maybe u wouldve put off listening to them if tomorrow we get a good drake tape... 50/50 odds

Yeah but high profile/anticipated releases are the ones that usually skip that, and more artists have been skipping it lately

I know it’s not the biggest deal ever but realistically even it loses them a few thousand streams, isn’t that an L for the team?

nah not really. most people arent in tune with this stuff

There’s a few hundred downloads on them I think, if you multiply that by the number of tracks on the albums, they could be losing like 5,000 streams or more (and that’s after a couple hours)

Not saying most people are in tune or would notice but still, that’s not nothing

I dont even listen to leaks anymore

They’re coming out tonight bro i can just wait

What does 5,000 streams equate to. F*** all

Money wise yeah, but for optics I wouldn’t think you’d just want to throw away any amount of streams in the thousands, since maximizing is always the name of the game

bro you just be complaining about s***