drake was like a NRG for hip hop

He definitely has but I’m talking more along the lines of signing someone, doing a ton of collabs with, executive producing their album etc.

Then again you can’t really force it. Maybe no one has come along. Do new rappers even wanna be greats anymore?

ant and ja dont wanna be faces of da league

Wait what lol I didn’t know this lore

Youngboy currently has zero songs in the Top 200 of Global Spotify btw

His highest entry right now on the USA Chart is #103

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That explains a lot

Maaaaaan I had the last two letters of that acronym switched when I first read it

aint no way dis nigga aint being blackballed by billboard

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO

Just because it flopped doesn’t mean she wasn’t around. Plus she came from Disney channel

Doesn’t “new star” just mean new to being a star? She fits I’d say

NRG means Energy

certain shoes that nike released were categorized as that. they're meant to bring energy back into the brand

so if virgil did a shoe nike would make a break down of it

basically drake was the ultimate NRG rapper and now that da world hate him we just confused why the ecosystem isnt what it used 2 be we just need to adjust to da withdrawls

She was a literal unknown to anyone who had never seen Girl Meets World before 2023 though

Youngboy has been known and respected in the rap community since, at the very latest, 2018

Youngboy isn’t new to being a star that’s my point

AI Youngboy 2 did 110K in 2019

I just showed you his songs aren’t being streamed that much right now, he’s not being blackballed by anyone

Y’all want Billboard to be the scapegoat so bad when really hip-hop is mostly to blame

You're asking the right questions. None of these new guys are even hungry for the crown so that's a non-starter.

nigga said yb aint being blackballed

NUSSIE

It hurts their brain when they see sold out concerts but not super high streams

Like when they said kendrick flopped and was done but the Morale tour was extremely successful

Y’all just want everything to be some conspiracy theory

now that i think of it brah i think birdman may be the greatest nigga wayne drake nicki YB GOD DAMMMMMMMMMN HE A VISIONARY

He likes southern rap. TI, Dolph, Bagg.

Iirc he talked about wanting to collab with Kendrick years ago.

Morgan is just a singer. He isn't even credited as a writer on Last Night. The best Country writers come together and pitch him these songs.

He did say he listens to country a little, and he does have some writing credits, but you get it.

YoungBoy has dropped like 50 albums and Sabrina Carpenter achieved more mainstream success with Short n' Sweet than with anything YoungBoy has dropped. YoungBoy has released 762 songs to Sabrina's 162 songs and she has pulled in more streams than him and is still out-streaming him daily. That answers your question.

YB was blackballed for years what are we talkin about