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wonder if he felt the same every other time he didnt do big fw numbers

This is cope lmao

if he really didn’t care he wouldn’t lead with reminding us about his #1s from years ago

dont like him or his music but any nigga basically saying f*** the charts is aight in my book

This nigga can’t win for s*** in the eyes of the Public.

Even when he doing good he doing bad

This isn’t even I Decided / Doube or Nothing era.

Releasing an album with no hype, no Features as promotion, Just a Fortnite single and a couple freestyles.

I fw Sean Don

big sean don boi

@BigWorldJust Last night took a L, but tonight I bounce back!

Real as hell

Didn't he just leak his cock as promo for the album tho

This

He f***s

2010 artists like Sean, Meek, and Wale who are past their prime need to go indie and partner with Empire.

The mainstream system is no longer checking for them and Empire is a good
avenue to do your own thing.

handled it well

No

Sean was independent for a bit before going back to Def Jam for this album.

Independent even w/Empire or some other distribution is almost never better than signing with a label unless you bring nothing to the table

I actually believe Sean on this.

I believe that over the course of the 4 years making this album, part of the delay was the first week sales. It's not like he didn't try in the years leading up to this album. They pressed the button on that Hit Boy EP and that record with Durk and Tiller.

Nothing has been connecting, and it became clear that he's past his commercial peak.

It takes a lot to generate the right environment to get those big looks. Sean is not Cole / Drake / Kendrick, where they don't really need the look to sell well in their first week.

He's never sold well w/o the big look and it was very obvious that commercially he was past his prime. So rather than try and re-engineer something that isn't present anymore, do what you do now, feed your base and take a grassroots approach.

Also, labels have projections for every act so of course he knew lol