Sonny Digital has called out the state of Hip Hop album sales and taken a shot at Saweetie in the process.
The math didn’t add up for the super producer, who couldn’t figure out how an artist like Saweetie could compile millions of followers and likes on social media, but only parlay that into a 2,000 album sales projection — which is an unverified number — for her new EP THE SINGLE LIFE.
“13 million followers , hundreds of thousands likes on all pictures but album sold less than 2000 copies. That’s crazy. The math ain’t adding up,” Sonny wrote on Twitter indirectly about the “ICY GRL” rapper.
“If I had millions of followers and my album sold 2k I probably would just delete all my social media cause y’all lying to me,” he continued. “Before I came here to give my opinion I did listen to the album. I actually listened to everything that dropped that day. Just out of curiosity to see what the competition was on.”
Sonny Digital wasn’t the only one to swipe at Saweetie about her apparently low sales projections. DJ Vlad also sniped the Bay Area native after she allegedly denied his request for an interview.
“If Saweetie did a VladTV interview she would have easily done 10x her first week sales, which was 2000 copies. We actually reached out through one of our people and were told ‘she won’t do Vlad.’ Her Loss,” he tweeted.
Saweetie’s decision to drop didn’t sit well with Joe Budden considering the tragic murder of Quavo’s nephew and Migos groupmate TakeOff just weeks earlier. During a recent episode of his titular podcast, Budden told Saweetie to “shut the fuck up.”
“Saweetie gotta shut the fuck up. That’s my take,” he said. “I’m not listening to Saweetie until she answers the question that everybody waiting for her to answer: Did you fuck Offset or not? That’s it. It’s bad timing for whatever she was saying in that [song]. It ain’t the time for your freestyle.”
He added: “I honestly didn’t really hear nothing directed to Quavo. I just keep hearing Lil Baby, and I think people keep confusing it with Quavo like they did last time.
“But either way, it ain’t the time for confusion. It ain’t the time for none of that after they just lost their brother and nephew. Sorry, Saweetie. Push it back. You’ve been quiet. No need to come shake the table now. Did you fuck dude or not?”
THE SINGLE LIFE arrived on November 18 via Warner Records boasting six tracks and no features. The EP serves as an appetizer to Saweetie’s long-awaited debut album, Pretty Bitch Music.
If Best Friend and Back to the Streets ain’t blow, there’s really no hope for her.
RAP MUSIC IS TRASH AND DISPOSABLE PRODUCT!!!! THESE RAPPERS ARE TALENTLESS AND ARE NOTHING BUT GARBAGE!!!! NOT AN OUNCE OF TALENT IN THEIR BODIES!!!! IT’S A FUCKING CIRCUS!!!! FUCK RAP MUSIC!!!!!
40 years later. 30 years as the biggest music genre. And the music is disposable? Lol….Being mad won’t change facts, idiot.
You a goofy rappers are mad talented and hip hop is a dope genre and always will be
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Ya can’t buy skill. You can be trash w 13 mil followers. She’s a cum dumping industry that. Straight trash
Ya can’t buy skill. You can be trash w 13 mil followers. She’s a cum dumping industry that. Straight trash.
Bought bot brandishing and paid-for playlist placements. It’s not just her, most of new-age rap is like this. We’re in the era of the industry plant, none of this trash has actual real fans. It’s all engineered and faked.
None of these “rappers” are literate enough to compose an actual sentence. All the money and power resides with labels and producers, and that’s just how they want it.
Most of the female rappers can’t make a song today without shaking their ass. Honestly I’d rather look at porn. And actually, I found 90’s Lil Kim, Foxy Brown and 2000’s Eve to be WAY sexier and they didn’t have to do all that. They just brought lyricism, sex appeal, and good energy to their music.
I think that same shit all time. Their videos are like porn without the part of the porn we actually wanna see
We all know that 90 percent of her followers online are thirsty dude’s trying to see some skin. They ain’t checking for her record, they checking for then titties…
Seems that way…
So the numbers do lie
As a black artist from Memphis that makes EVERYTHING and Memphis “type” hip hop last. 2 things annoy tf out of me. 1)The sales argument/diss. A lot of albums flop,like a BUNCH, how is that a reflection of the artist? They can’t make someone buy their record. 2)The complaints about rappers being wack,well look directly at the fans,they want support “real hip hop”, hypocrisy everywhere.
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Bullshit sales are not everything but they matter and she is trash she been working on her debut album for how long now she is trash music is trash that’s why nobody bought that shit she only got popping like she did cause she fucked with quavo