Nah Wayne had deeper songs too

legit can't tell if it's sarcasm

Some rappers just want to get big enough so they can pursue other things. He probably makes more money with his weed brand than music at this point.

Doesn’t have the superstar image/persona

Keep in mind he was pretty huge got a bit but not on the level of Drake our Trab

lack of subject matter and inconsistent album quality

did Weeknd?

Having the same subject matter wasn’t the issue, it was weed being the subject matter that doomed him

It would be even bigger

Kanye ended him

Black and Yellow still bigger than any Travis song tbf

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dropped that wack album ONIFC when it was hyped to be a classic

wiz was the rapper everyone listened to back in school so he had potential, also had good mixtapes, but fumbled when making good albums

Rap is mainly about marketing

If he chose the artsy route he would've been perceived better

Sicko Mode and Goosebumps out now

Huh???

Well, his singles are good but his albums as a whole end up not too good

But tbh he just didn’t live up to the hype

Him going too far pop didn't help either. I sometimes forget he's even a rapper

I remember that he wasted a great Pharrell and Thundercat collab by putting it as a throwaway on a long ass tape lol

In terms of commercial success he understood what the masses wanted but not artistically which sadly prevented him from being taken seriously and having a long lasting run

Wiz is a pioneer for the work he laid down on being one of the first true internet/blog type rappers and has classic mixtapes and songs to his name. That being said once he really started blowing up he really phoned it in and didn’t evolve and just became a caricature of himself and tried to become the cool weed rapper. I think history will favor him well and will end up being the snoop dogg of my generation for the younger gens to view as the cool unc that smokes or whatever

what? B&Y went #1 when it was actually hard to go #1 lol it was the official Super Bowl song and everything cause the Steelers made it lol

I feel like he's kinda like Ciara in that he gets hit singles, but fails to build hype around his albums (that last longer than the first day)

B&Y went #1. Was much bigger than either of those songs

He’s a sellout when it comes to albums. S*** sounds like kidz bop compared to his mixtapes