6 year account but I had premium for the last 3 or so and moved to AM in December.

My #1 song on Spotify is survival

What a miserable attitude lol

MINE IS DRAKE.

yea

been on Apple Music since 2015 but them pre-covid EDM days Spotify carried

Prob top 3 rock albums of the 2000s tbh

Real, might spin it today it's been a min Have u also kept up with their latest releases? Cause I haven't

Top 3

Drake, 31k songs etc

It's so interesting because Drake was my top artist but also only has one song in my top 100 most streamed songs, and its prob not a song i'd say is top 25 drake

Tuff attitude but you wouldn’t get it

One of your best posts straight up

most streamed artist chaka khan
24k total songs

Data collection thread

lol I always give them a listen but their new sound just isn’t my vibe. They’ve only gotten bigger though so people definitely like it

Rocnation turned them way up

crine i didnt kno they were signed to the ROC

HOV won

DAMN is so dark tbh

Most of it is not beyond the general "heaviness" of Rap in itself as a natural genra, and especially not in the way you tried to put as using U as an example - and it's (Damn) one of Raps highest selling albums of all time with Raps 2nd only double Diamond single (Sunflower by Post and Swae being the first) and the only time someone ever outsold Drake to this day, so obv it's not too heavy or too taxing for general ppl

• And even on his more "serious" works:

TPAB has Alright, Wesley's Theory, These Walls, Hood Politics, King Kunta & For Sale

MMBS has N95, Die Hard, Purple Hearts, Silent Hill, Rich Spirit, Mr Morale and Count Me Out

Even Untitled has Levitate, Top on the Phone and I Can Explain lol

And of course Black Panther soundtrack

Songs that aren't "overly artsy" or "emotionally taxing" songs even on his more so-called artistic bodies of work

He isn't the 2nd overall biggest and most successful Rapper out with some of the biggest achievements n certs that are even beyond Drake and Kanye - many people have him as one of if not the #1 as their most listened to artists lol

• Also calling music "trauma dumping" is majorly reductive when that's half the point of music is to talk about one's own experiences and feelings/ideas, and especially wild towards black music (not calling you specifically racist as I don't think u are, just saying that tone and thinking comes off as potentially racist itself and has literally been used as racism towards Rap, Blues, Reggae and Jazz from white critics and white radio/DJs, even some Funk and black Synth Pop)

I get where you’re coming from for sure and you have a point

Part of my perspective on this is coming from a place where I feel that for some reason, the industry approves of Kendrick’s “conscious” messaging more than most other artists, and I think it comes down to more than just “he did it better than Lupe” or the timing of it. Kendrick is the first “conscious” artist to ever be under the Aftermath/Dr Dre tree which is famous for telling everyone they sign, even Rakim, to go as gangsta and negative as possible. I fully believe that Dr Dre acts as an agent of the government to make rap more negative and I might be crazy for that

But following that line of thought I realized that for such a thoughtful rapper Kendrick’s music is also negative and depressing as f***. I almost feel like TPAB and DAMN made me more depressed. I find DAMN to be really depressing thematically even though it has light moments musically. There’s something about the energy of DAMN that goes way beyond the heaviness of a lot of hip hop to me

It just seems convenient that the “conscious/lyrical/message based” artist that the industry chose to carry that torch is pretty negative and low vibrational at times. But maybe I’m being ridiculous

They were going to the brunch and everything 🤣

brunch with fat joe