Yea this album isn’t made for most consumers. It’s about black trauma, him rapping about f***ing white girls for revenge and father-son relationship in a specific community. Which is perfectly fine.

Truthfully, I think y'all f***in up tryna talk sales about a conscious hip-hop album as if that is truly important with those kinda albums. Were people d*** eating the charts for Lupe, Common, and Mos Def like this back then? If they were I really don't remember it lmao always thought it was about the raps and concepts with these kinda albums

are the masses really looking to hear We Cry Together, Worldwide Steppers, and Crown though? compare it to what else is poppin rn, and it sure as hell doesn't fit that criteria. if you really listen to the album, there is a lot of replay value in terms of actually listening to what Kendrick is saying. people tend to dismiss things that they're not familiar with and aren't comfortable hearing, so obviously it's gonna tank.

but then again you see time and time again several artists who make the same bullshit over and over and people eat it up because they are familiar with it

sabsad im getting really sick and tired of this unprovoked racism against us whites on this forum that goes unpunished.

man y’all come in here all high and mighty with usually garbage-tier takes on BLACK music. being called a c***is the price you have to pay, deal with it

We really out here comparing Harry Styles with Kendrick.

SALES ARE EVERYTHING

IF YOU DONT LIKE SALES GO OUTSIDE

YOU HEAR IT OUTSIDE? NO CAUSE IT DOESNT SELL WELL

SALES ARE LIFE SALES ARE ME SALES ARE YOU SALES IS EVERYTHING

EVERYTHING IS SALES. F*** ALL SALES DOUBTERS. ALL YALL CAN SUCK MY D***

I LOVE SALES

the cope continues

When you play an album on the aux and it didnt sell well

Harry Styles had CD's and Vinyls that's why his pure sales are like 320k lol
He probably wouldn't have outsold Kendrick if he didn't have physicals
Not to mention that he has a #1 song too

if its interesting enough, I dont see why not tbh

you see how many people listened to the album first day? those are drake numbers

now that I heard the album more than 10 times I feel like its not as a complete package as his previous projects but I still really like it

Im a huge kendrick fan but i gotta say his new album lacks replayability :(

all this discourse on sales and I’m surprised no one has mentioned the timing. we just had two mass shootings within the past 2 weeks. I think a lot of the public, myself included admittedly, just isn’t in the mood to vibe to a conscious album about trauma when the country is drowning in it right now

Ya dont get tired

Don’t know what you mean he has no passion. Literally dropped his best work yet

Cope

TALK!

Idk what that is. Might not be in as many locations as mcdonalds or more expensive? Doesnt have anything to do with streaming

Sales don’t mean s*** for Kendrick’s album
But will mean something if drake’s numbers decline

Gotcha

They probably won't because he's going to be making music for teenagers his entire career

Kendrick album is not meant to be listened to. Museum art piece that u visit once every few years.

well let me say you're completely wrong with this, if we check inflation 2001 a space odyssey did much more than Armageddon and still has multiple reruns and rereleases in cinema and bluray all the time

and armageddon was a movie that did good at first but was rapidly forgotten

so you're calling Kendricks album Armageddon?