Felt this and it’s been downhill ever since but I do think CLB is a step in the right direction tbh I think with the Kanye s*** ending, he’ll be in a better frame mentally to make something good
Beefing with one of your GOATs it must be very difficult
LUVTW2 should be considered it’s own separate thing LUVTW2 rules and EA drools I’m afraid
Facts
Not dropping the album in May/June was a massive f***ing mistake
They were trying to replicate an old fashioned traditional rollout in 2022, which doesn’t work if you aren’t consistent with singles. Their biggest mistakes period was not dropping Smoking Out The Window in May and letting LTDO run out of momentum before dropping again. Bonehead move in retrospect.
And Skate was also not a strong enough follow up single.
looking back at s*** from the asap rocky testing era and how the album didn't live to the hype of the whole aesthetic
Really a goofy incoherent rollout . Great music tho
Young thug -Punk
A few thug albums kinda felt like they were going to be some opus where everything came together his catalogue is still amazing but idk honestly tha tour/SS1 era still the best work. Thug turned into a family dude
Young thug -Punk
I didn't hate it like everyone else but yup this. Been a Thug stan since 1017 and it was conceptually almost exactly what I always wanted from Thug but nah.. even without the random turn up songs, I appreciate the more honest vulnerable Thug with stories to tell but all his other more introspective s*** is way better. OD, The Promise, It's Ok to Cry, Cry Like This, We Ball... s*** even RIP and that was on his first mixtape. He could easily drop an emotional classic but we got that instead.
At least it gave us a top 5 Tinydesk. I play that more than the album 🤦♂️
Scorpion (no real diss, and first listen just seemed so boring, grew on me some tho)
C4 (return to the Carter series, but was just not very good minus some moments)
Blueprint 3 (return to BP series, terrible, not good, sounded washed)
MCHG (big name for a trash album)
Starboy (big Weeknd fan, was intrigued by the fts, Future and Kendrick, both songs ended up being not so good really, and he went so pop which I wasn’t expecting atm, album grew on me some tho)
Pluto x Baby Pluto (my goat and a rapper I think is very talented, but just didn’t work for me, I should give it another try tho)
Starboy had a massive single leading into it though
Scorpion (no real diss, and first listen just seemed so boring, grew on me some tho)
C4 (return to the Carter series, but was just not very good minus some moments)
Blueprint 3 (return to BP series, terrible, not good, sounded washed)
MCHG (big name for a trash album)
Starboy (big Weeknd fan, was intrigued by the fts, Future and Kendrick, both songs ended up being not so good really, and he went so pop which I wasn’t expecting atm, album grew on me some tho)
Pluto x Baby Pluto (my goat and a rapper I think is very talented, but just didn’t work for me, I should give it another try tho)
yeah def spin Pluto x Baby Pluto again if you haven't in a while, it's aged pretty well if you ask me
They were trying to replicate an old fashioned traditional rollout in 2022, which doesn’t work if you aren’t consistent with singles. Their biggest mistakes period was not dropping Smoking Out The Window in May and letting LTDO run out of momentum before dropping again. Bonehead move in retrospect.
And Skate was also not a strong enough follow up single.
I just think they picked the wrong songs for singles. LTDO should’ve been followed up by 777, then SOTW after that, then Fly As Me then Skate
yeah def spin Pluto x Baby Pluto again if you haven't in a while, it's aged pretty well if you ask me
I still wish Uzi collabed with Juice instead of Fewtch
What are you talking about, Carter 5 was super well received
Not saying it wasn't but it's not the crazy insane album that brought wayne back like it was hyped up to be.
Not saying it wasn't but it's not the crazy insane album that brought wayne back like it was hyped up to be.
It had the biggest non-Drake streaming debut of all time, went platinum and Wayne's career has been healthy since then.
After he had an amazing run of features and singles leading up to it, Drake on Scorpion was incredibly disappointing. Idk what happened w that one but outside the singles there was only 2-3 songs I liked on it.
Before that, Views disappointed me. There had been so many fake leaks about that album that I had kinda deluded myself into thinking it was going to be Drake’s album where he went full on dancehall and Hold On We’re Going Home type s***. Ended up not at all being that, though that was more on me than any realistic expectation.
A few thug albums kinda felt like they were going to be some opus where everything came together his catalogue is still amazing but idk honestly tha tour/SS1 era still the best work. Thug turned into a family dude
Punk was disappointing but thug has had a waaaay longer career than I expected him to have in, say 2014, I think he’s got a lot of good stuff in store.