The nigga said it out of his own mouth on an anonymous random call

And plus there’s a clip asking one of his industry boys to also bot his music lol

The problem is yall think d***riding = being honest about how the beef went

It’s just nice to see that none of the data crunching and number monitoring is actually driven out of an interest in charts

S*** is solely just to support whatever bias or agenda niggas wanna push on here lmao

There’s no reason to not believe a dude who literally has an artist on his label say he botted his s*** (again, on a random call that was never meant to even be public) outside of being a d*** sucker

Think for sure they try to bot, but im p sure its not effective tho and less so in 2025 than 2022

It’s funny to watch lol

i would think so, the only rap albums to sell more than 100k in streaming units this year are MUSIC and $$$4U. something definitely changed recently.

I don’t. Love Kendrick but he’s not even in my Top 5 favorite rappers all-time

I don’t d***ride Kendrick at all, I’m just objective about him and give him respect and credit where it’s due

Its also seems like Spotify cracked down on botting somewhat this year (maybe due to the UMG lawsuit) because the numbers last year were so inflated compared to now. Again, some regulars here were calling it a conspiracy theory and that artists were just not making good enough songs compared to last year. Notice how they're moving the goal post now

I literally can go weeks without listening to a single Kendrick song. The fact that they think I’m a “Kbot” is hilarious

Two things are true. Yes, Spotify has cracked down on botting this year. And yes, mainstream artists are not releasing songs that are good enough (on a commercial appeal level) to captivate a wide audience for a long period of time. Do you not understand what nuance is?

7 Months -> 1B
8 Months -> 2B
16 Months -> 3B
19 Months -> 4B
19 Months -> 5B

The fact that you said its’ streams were “slowing down” when it’s reached each of its billions at a consistent pace is crazy @mangotflu

NaziYe stan quoting me

Kendrick never used bots

Why are the same idiots itt only talking about Spotify?

100% sure AM is even worse with botting because it's easier to do it there since we don't have the exact numbers on this platform

It makes sense because Drake is definitely botting massively on AM

Exactly. Drake has been botting for years on there, it’s extremely obvious

A handful of artists like J. Cole, Russ and even Drake called out the use of bots and y'all were on here arguing with them — artists who are actually in the industry and are aware of all the shenanigans that go on behind the scenes. Y'all called them liars, especially Drake, meanwhile this is s*** that anyone even remotely close to the industry has known for years now.

Drake would know because he's never indulged in any of the industry smoke and mirror tactics other artists have openly embraced like bundles, radio deals, 5-6 versions of the same song, etc.

I'm here for all this s*** being exposed in a real way.

Now every artist must be using bots because the Weeknd/XO have gotten exposed as using them

It'd do a bit less but not as much as you think imo

If # of tracks was so important why is TTPD basically flopping? 31 tracks and there's like 13 albums outstreaming it this year

That's what makes this even more insane though to be fair.. 99.9% artists could drop 3 albums in a few years that long and they'd fall off fast as f*** because people would be bored

but his fans are eating it up more and more

13 albums outstreaming it out of the… thousands upon thousands of albums that get released every year.

Y’all talk about music in here like there’s a total of 50 releases a year