lol if u think this is wasting a travis ft u must have forgot that he completely vaulted the trav WLR song the day before release. Carti does not give a f***. if anything trav probably cares way more abt getting the opium cosign 😭

You would think you would want a dude who debuts with half a million units every album on one of your songs but that's just me

damn that’s surprising ngl

carti cares about the integrity of his art more than numbers. i mean once ur rich enough to live in a mansion and never worry about bills why keep chasing money? just make what u care about

why are y'all so obsessed with streaming? can't you just hit play on youtube? oh I know, most of y'all feel like not listening to music if it's not from spotify, apple, or tidal, right?

it’s on youtube

niggas would’ve killed themselves in the cassette/cd age listening to radio premiere rips

bro these kids nowadays wanna post that s*** on their socials instead of actually listening to the music, and of course youtube doesn't have the same integration as spotify/apple

they think they get the baddies because they have apple music

it’s even more annoying because you CAN find uploads of the songs on AM/Spotify, it’ll just be under a different artist name

if it matters that much to them, just WAIT like the rest of us and enjoy the songs off youtube or rip the audio from youtube and just add to local files

Because he’s an A******

I think it's a good strategy this feels like one of the most successful rollouts we've had for a rap album in a while

I’m actually surprised to see so many in here defending this. Because if Tyler, Frank, Jay Electronica or Gambino did this same s***…

You literally can't even lock your phone listening to YouTube. Ain't nobody got time for that driving

there are apps that allow you to do that, hope you know that

but don’t worry op, this isn’t a Vultures release, the album will be out soon

Frank Ocean did with Endless

and 3.15.20 was only streaming online through his website for a while before a streaming services release

I think what he's doing is really cool

Yeah yeah blah blah music is an industry but why should art be centralized in how artists share it with people

I hate that everything is funneled and controlled by streaming

People will complain about their favorite songs with samples being changed up for a streaming release, the death of mixtapes etc but still support streaming controlling everything

People utilizing as many possible avenues for getting music to people, online or not >>>>>

Plus with Carti specifically it's obvious that the music videos are really important to this rollout and not having the songs on streaming makes it more likely that people will watch the videos

Only thing is that HBA should have been released on YT too 😭 @Orangutan

Sorry child, I gotta a life ain’t nobody got time for that s*** everyday

he saw black star talking about f*** streaming platforms

wasting a Travis feature welcome to 2016 brother

Brah not complaining but 2 out of those 4 tracks are available just on Opium IG.

Bro I wanna listen to this on my phone...

We watched Frank Ocean build a staircase for hours. He's the pioneer

Also Endless is still not released normally years later...