Lil Wayne and Rich The Kid crossed generations with their Trust Fund Babies project.
The surprise release was led by the single “Feel Like Tunechi,” but early sales projections have the release pegged as the worst first week by sales metrics in Weezy’s illustrious career.
According to Chart Data, the 10-track project is expected to pull in an estimated 12 to 15,000 total album-equivalent units earned. By comparison, Nobody Safe, the joint project Rich The Kid released with NBA YoungBoy, earned roughly 19,000 total album-equivalent units during its first week of release in November 2020.
The project was long in the making for Weezy and Rich The Kid, who told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about their excitement for the album and fans’ response.
“First of all, Rich is like my little bro from day one,” Wayne said. “Me and Rich had been rockin for years and we always said we were going to do something. We might do a song here and there, but we locked it in, got in there, and said we put our mindset and did it. As far as, as much as I gave on that, I do that every time I do anything.”
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The response to Trust Fund Babies sales-wise is a considerable blow to Wayne’s Billboard chart dominance. Since 1999’s Tha Block Is Hot, the New Orleans rapper hasn’t had an official album debut outside the Top 20. Save for Funeral and the Free Weezy Album, all of them have been at least certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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Of course it was going to flop. The sales weren’t going to be able to look past MegaDome’s FiveHead so yeah Weezy should’ve known better and just used his face as a full-pipe for doing ollies off of lol.
Rich The Kid sucks ass tho, he would’ve been better off linking up with 2Chainz or YoungThug or Lil Uzi Vert than this clown.
Never partner with anyone who’s forehead is bigger than your car seats cuz it never ends well. Their head is like a solar collector, it steals all the light and takes all the focus off of everything else that’s important. Bad move, Weezy.
Cuz Nobody Wanted This
Damn, never thought I’d hear a Lil Wayne album without atleast 1 good song. Maybe they needed a better producer, these beats were wack af
It’s the curse of rich the mid. He can’t even get a collab album with a legend (Wayne) or one of the most popular rappers in the game right now (youngboy) to sell well and do numbers!
Wayne is fire, but nobody checkinv for rich the kid
Lil Wayne is a big seller and so is NBA youngboy the common denominator is Rich The kid…. Dude it’s a cancer for hit albums apparently. It sure doesn’t help that he sucks to begin with.
The reason people connect with NBA YoungBoy is cuz either they got a lot of kids too or herpes if not both and they can relate.
Lol ur funny
well i ain’t telling you how to spend your money.
wayne a goat and rich held his own tho
Haven’t heard album but Weezy blackout on that trust fund joint
It’s a pretty good album. Dropped outta nowhere. Rich The Kids name doesn’t standout to many people yet. For a lot of people they are prob wondering who Weezy dropped a Collab album with
N****,Shut up.
Nope
How you Wayne and flop with numbers this is prove that he has a bunch of parasites for management. Make the numbers move this is just sad
Shits waaaack as fack
That a damn lie
You smoking craccccckkkkkkkk, if you think anything on this was actually good.
Good! Wayne has been on a great run Nobody wanted to hear him with rich the kid garbage a** tho project should’ve been shelved from the jump
album out until the end of time. who give a fuck. numbers can only get higher