mov

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You're really comparing these two?

Carti was never gone unlike Frank loool he was releasing songs on IG and YouTube, was performing constantly and had multiple hits in the last 2 years

Free YoungBoy

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@Mafia_boss was spending all week saying it didn’t hold

Expert

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This beef needs to end and be over with. S*** is turning into a dark cloud on hip hop. Every major moment is connected to it. Every artist has to pick a side and it's causing a lot of bad energy.

Hopefully once the tour is over, s*** is over. Kendrick steps away for a while and drops a great concept album and Drake raps inspired again.

mov

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At this point its too late, people moved on

Dino

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Nah his new snippet was making a lot of noise

mov

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Carti suffered no damage because he wasn't gone at all in these 4.5 years.

Kendrick suffered damage with Morale because he vanished without saying anything for years and the album wasn't commercial enough too

Frank is almost gone for a decade, the last time we really heard from him was 2023 with his weird Coachella performance and before that he was gone for years too without saying s***

Stuff like this will cause a damage these days. Rihanna will have the same problem (if she ever drops something)

mov

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Carti suffered no damage because he wasn't gone at all in these 4.5 years.

Kendrick suffered damage with Morale because he vanished without saying anything for years and the album wasn't commercial enough too

Frank is almost gone for a decade, the last time we really heard from him was 2023 with his weird Coachella performance and before that he was gone for years too without saying s***

Stuff like this will cause a damage these days. Rihanna will have the same problem (if she ever drops something)

mov

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It really didn’t outside of Twitter lol

mov

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You're really comparing these two?

Carti was never gone unlike Frank loool he was releasing songs on IG and YouTube, was performing constantly and had multiple hits in the last 2 years

serenade

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i'm comparing them because we live in a culture that is stuck and struggles profoundly to move on from anything ever. if you were popular and respected in the 2010s, your relevancy is secured for the foreseeable future. it doesn't matter how long you leave your fans waiting.

frank is a unique case because he really did just disappear post-COVID, but i heavily doubt it has affected his commercial prospects at all. millennials aren't just going to "move on" from him, they are gonna keep waiting for that blonde follow up regardless of if it's coming or not.

iHype

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An album with Travis Scott, Kendrick Lamar, Future, and Young Thug collaborations being the most weirdest album to ever be successful?

Zack From The Six

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Haven't seen KTT criticize it for being such. They usually can't stop talking down on tik-tok bait from rappers

mov

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It all depends on the promo he's going to do with his next album. It would for sure do 300k+ first week but people would overestimate the sales just like they did with Kendrick with Morale

mov

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Carti suffered no damage because he wasn't gone at all in these 4.5 years.

Kendrick suffered damage with Morale because he vanished without saying anything for years and the album wasn't commercial enough too

Frank is almost gone for a decade, the last time we really heard from him was 2023 with his weird Coachella performance and before that he was gone for years too without saying s***

Stuff like this will cause a damage these days. Rihanna will have the same problem (if she ever drops something)

iHype

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Frank got the whole mysterious vibe in general it works for him to be lowkey.

He could very well come back and do great numbers.

R&B acts who are lowkey and well acclaimed like D’Angelo & Sade dipped for a decade then came back and did huge numbers. And this was pre-streaming which I feel was way more harsher with long breaks and even the biggest stars would fall off with a few year break

this is not an alt

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You forgot to mention that Kendrick’s album also was a disappointment to most people and didn’t have any hits compared to his latest album.

this is not an alt

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Lowkey feel like it would be as much of a moment as Carter V. Everybody and their mother will want to listen to it when it comes out. He’s become much bigger since 2016 I feel like, he’s truly a mainstream artist now. Plus his fanbase is the biggest merch buyers in the entire music industry apart from Taylor. I’ll think if he’d drop it this year the album would be huge, if he waits another 5 years thi the youth wouldn’t know him anymore so then it might be over. I think he clears 500k if the album is good and is relatively commercially friendly.

this is not an alt

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You forgot to mention that Kendrick’s album also was a disappointment to most people and didn’t have any hits compared to his latest album.

mov

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"the album wasn't commercial enough too"

It's literally in my post