The only rapper that competed at a high level in the three categories for the entire decade is kendrick lamar

He was top 5 commercially
Top 5 critically
And arguably top 5 lyrically.

KTT really believes that SMF is a meh project that came and went

Imagine being that out of touch

It didn't come and went technically buy it def underperformed and has been at the bottom of the charts for a minute now. So many albums from 2012 upward has been charting higher and overall sold more.

It only went platinum
Didn't have a big hit
And is being outstreamed by albums that came.out 5 years prior.

hot was gigantic, and the london

Not gigantic. It went 11 on the charts and it's only platinu. It was big but not gigantic.

The London did a little better. 3x platinum and 12 o the charts but as I said that's par for course right now for someone like Thug.

thread title literally says in terms of music quality and people proceed to s*** on Thug because of his sales

classic ktt2.

At this rate, Kendrick is one his way to being the most consistent rapper OAT. He hasn't missed once when it comes to projects

Kanye West

Kanye dropped five perfect albums in the 2010s

MBDTF
Yeezus
TLOP
ye
KSG

He wouldn't be there with quality either.

Thug
Kenny
Travis
Future
Drake
Easily top 5 most consistent mainstream rappers of last decade

If you don't like Thug just say that

«most definitely hit the decline with high off life” like that s*** didnt drop in 2020 💀

Thug has never been huge commercially, and that was his first #1, his first project to sell at least 100K first week, and had two huge singles in Hot and The London. Also, it went platinum in a relatively short amount of time by Thug standards, being that Slime Season 3 only hit gold just this year. And to top it off, it was received pretty well by the public and still to this day is seen as a solid overall project (by everywhere but KTT).

So Much Fun did everything but underperform

Barter 6 also just went gold

The fact that Thug's older music is being streamed so much now goes to show how well his music has aged.

Drake out now

"Barter 6 also just went gold
The fact that Thug's older music is being streamed so much now goes to show how well his music has aged"

u contradictin urself lmao. how is it being streamed a lot but just went gold 💀💀

So much fun outsold Jcole KOD

so much fun did in a year what KOD did in two. keep the same energy

It didn’t at first

A lot of albums that sell well first week still haven't gone gold because they had hype without music quality

Whereas Thug literally did 16k first week and continued to have consistent listeners over 6 years. That literally shows growth.

I mean quality is irrelevant if I don't like the music/artist so it is what it is.

if u say so lol.