heres some more attention, you been fiending for it itt

That song was playing at a party one time when I was hanging with my boy Stifler and he put it on. I pissed myself in front of some chicks.
It was embarrassing.

they’ll say drake. they’ll say 50.

but Hov started it if we talking artists.

around the time when dot dropped TPAB. pretty much.

i tore this site apart over numbers

“Only niggas moving units em, pimp juice and us”

Niggas who just started listening to hip hop in 2016 really exposing themselves itt

i wasn’t in music twitter so i can’t say it’s not there but it def feels like it’s a ktt thing lmaoo

That nigga pac played a part to lol

‘I sold what your whole album sold in my first week’

When 50 came out he just wanted to be the dopest go check his interviews from that era. I remember when he came out I was thinking this boy is a problem. His tape before the album was literally him going at everyone's necks. He wanted that crown not them sales at first

Sales always been a thing. I think it just got more common to discuss once streaming and the media got more better and accessible

I mean you’ve got pop artists running around begging for sales all the time, rap started taking over the pop space, now a good portion of hip hop artists have started taking stock of that too and the fans follow. It’s to be expected, this is what happens with culturally dominant music. People are in awe by it, go back to MJ, there’s still a great awe amongst everyone when you look at how massive an album like Thriller was. Fans like knowing their artist is THE artist of their time

same threads same topics same users

It’s always been about sales. And I think the more an artist sold, the more they rapped about it and attacked artists that didn’t sell as much.

That show is still on?

Nah

Sales talk is for fans of popstars. If you talking sales about hip-hop artists you a loser forreal.

But he popularized the convo when he blew up which is all that matters.

Obviously, mixtape 50 didn't focus on it as much, especially since he got blackballed.

yea MIKE has been on a 5 year run already but he's still levelling up, he just dropped a tape under his producer alias this year which you couldn't even call hip-hop
djblackpower.bandcamp.com/track/u-know-w-anysia-kym

Siifu you shouldn't write off too quickly since no two projects of his sound the same. Negro mixes punk/noise/jazz, while FlySiifu is just extremely accessible stoner raps. Both masterpieces imo. Navy is a crazy producer and unique rapper (co-signed by Yasiin Bey). Vince owes his career to Earl too. I recommend u peep this navy produced siifu track
ronee.bandcamp.com/track/stay-sane-prod-navy-blue

Little Simz is cool

I can see where you're coming from with the higher profile angle, but Earl / Alc are sorta higher profile at this point, and Alc is pushing a lot of this scene now.

I'm p sure a lot of these peeps will be household names sooner or later. I mean I was stupidly hyped for Summertime 06 back in the day but I never saw Vince becoming huge like this then. DOOM was also just an obscure underground cat for a long time.

it’s always been

Facts and when he sold the 12 million that s*** boosted his ego by alot, I remember back in 2004 that nigga was reading ashanti sells on the radio clowning her for selling less than her previous album