In 2007, Wayne was dominating with no album out. His features were everywhere. Da Drought 3 was everywhere. And the anticipation for C3, especially after the leaks, was intense.

I used to lurk SOHH(defunct rap forum) as a little kid and Wayne dominated half the forum discussion.

Closest I can think of is Drake in 2015.
Anyone else?

The one you don't know about yet ..

no

soon

Prolly chloehotline

The strokes no bs before their first album dropped they were praised and had so much hype

didn't witness it in real time but heard they were being called the saviors of rock, which would've been a big deal back then

What happened then

Basically every label scrambled to sign them

Drake 2014

20 years of abhorrent garage rock indie bands later and all we got to show for it is Cookies

Arctic Monkeys too, they were hugely popular off singles and demos

Basically they played at prestigious clubs in NY and every label wanted to sign them

Unfortunately the strokes while good band resulted like someone said in this thread 20 years of mid indie bands

Tyga 2020

50k for a verse no album out

I guess 50 Cent back in 2002 would qualify too.

Carti last year

Yeah it was pretty crazy looking back at it
Glad they lived up to it

Wdym

Not really tbh I love the strokes but nothing is better then is this it and they spawned so many trash indie bands which basically killed rock lmao

I could say exact same about arcade fire also