Kendrick's DAMN certified Double Platinum

[Ear2DaSt]

the kids love em

 

[Kairo]

Double plat?? Props but it seems a little inflated. I want him to be great tho so no shade.

 

[anduin]

Album is dope, he deserves it.

 

[MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14]

Can niggas stop crying about the state of hip hop. This nigga Kendrick was literally outselling every mumble rapper on that mumble rappers debut week and Damn had been out for weeks or month. Jay just went plat. Cole put an average album out and went plat. Big Sean stepped his game up and sold fairly well

Same thing with venues. These mumble rappers are opening up shows or performing in clubs. Meanwhile Cole, Kendrick, and Jay all have arena tours doing well selling out most major cities. Sure the golden era is over but the best music typically is selling the most and bringing the largest crowds.

These dudes will go platinum no matter what because they have a large white hipster fanbase that will buy it. Same with Eminem.

This isn't 15 years ago where new artists could go plat of a hit single. You have to actually have a large fan base and be established.

Eminem, jay, Kendrick and Cole will go plat even if the album is trash.

Wait so now you're knocking these niggas for having a portion of their fanbase be white in a country where African Americans make up 12% of the population? White fanbases also like these mumble rappers as well and support them. But regardless of race there is a loyalty that these rappers have to the point their fans buy their albums more than the lower quality rap.

 

[THE_R_]

WELL DESERVED **SALUTES** :+1:

 

[beatboy1]

Awesome. The songs I like on this Album I really love, a lot ! ....but on other hand I find myself doing something I've never had to do for any Kendrick album..I hit skip on occasion for some songs

 

[Already Home_17]

Quote me on this. Eminem's next album will be pure extremadamente garbage and will still go plat within 3 months

the last eminem album that took 3 months to go platinum was probably his debut

 

[The Recipe]

Who mad at the #newrules

 

[The Recipe]

Sidebar: What stops these labels from setting up offices or warehouses of streaming hardware that stream their artist music allday.

 

[Karl.]

I stream it daily and I have it on vinyl.

 

[Ghostdenithegawd]

Sidebar: What stops these labels from setting up offices or warehouses of streaming hardware that stream their artist music allday.

Who says they haven't but it would be way to fucking easy to tell where the ip addresses are streaming from the same shit in the same location streaming the same exact thing idk maybe they could set up vpns and prices.

you would have to pay a few niggas like me a heafty penny to set that up and keep your secret

It woudnt be worth it

 

[StoneColdMikey]

Sidebar: What stops these labels from setting up offices or warehouses of streaming hardware that stream their artist music allday.

It'll cost more to maintain that then the money that they recoup

 

[The Recipe]

Interesting points but we claimed labels were buying albums that cost as well, why not this? Is the publicity and prestige of certified albums enough to recoup plus profit in other avenues?

 

[*~queenbee~*]

I remember when Big Sean, Wale, Cole and Kendrick were coming up and trying to hone a fan base and niggas were dissing them for not selling big. I ain't gon lie if you pull up the threads I might have been one of them dudes dissing on them. It really worked out for Big Sean, Cole, Kendrick and even Drake. KRIT could be there too but he has to stop giving his music away for free.

@"Sion", you have to understand that money isn't an object for everyone. Krit gives his music away for free probably because he enjoys rapping. Something like a hobbie, whereas it's just an non profitable activity of his.

 

[*~queenbee~*]

the kids love em

Yes @Ear2DaSt bitch; don't I know it! My neph vibes out to K. Dot from time to time; no shade!

 

[Ear2DaSt]

Rappers won't achieve their goals listening to nay sayers

 

[MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14]

If companies were buying or streaming in excess you would see many more popular figures in hip hop selling better. French montana wouldn't continuously have one hot single that sales but his albums flop. Niggas like Yacty who had the popularity outside the records would have better sales for albums like his debut which borderline could be labeled a flop. Wale would never have an album that did 20K first week because the MMG machine would have bought their own supply.

As far as streaming they cut the amount of streams can count toward the charts so mass streaming albums don't make sense. And if you did it you would not only raise red flags but need years to really push something plat on streams only.

And while the sales plus streaming helps the artists image it hurts the image of the labes. They don't always get staight cash for youtube views on an artists youtube page. And while the streaming services pay them they still don't get as much as they do on every physical album sold.

 

[Ear2DaSt]

Labels are in the business of selling personas these dayz

 

[LcnsdbyROYALTY]

Labels are in the business of selling personas these dayz

This. That's the entire point of 360

 

[BigBallsNoWorries]

Rappers won't achieve their goals listening to nay sayers

So whats the hold up with KB The Fudge Packer?