In what would be considered rather unfortunate news, it seems as though the Hip Hop community and culture have begun to roast female Hip Hop rapper Saweetie over the "sales" of her latest EP released just two weeks ago titled "The Single Life".
Apparently, all the drama began thanks to a post by DJ Akademiks that alleged that Saweetie was only set to sell around 2,000 copies of her new EP "The Single Life". One thing I would like to point out about the whole controversy surrounding this speculation is...I could not verify these numbers anywhere and neither could DJ Akademiks which brings me to a few other points....
It would appear to me that the men in the music industry have an issue with Saweetie: an arguably beautiful, confident, independent and secure young woman.
I say this because for all intents and purposes, Saweetie seems highly unbothered on several different fronts. For starters, she released her EP as a surprise with no hit single, no music video for a song, no prior announcement or anything. She just dropped it. She also addressed situations on her project involving current hit making rapper Lil Baby and former Migos member Quavo and the things they've said about her in her music. And finally, the project doesn't contain any of the other hit singles she's released in the last year or so because if it was solely about numbers to her, the streaming era would've allowed for those songs numbers to apply to the project.
To me it would seem as though Saweetie not biting her tongue in regards to men who are considered bigger names in public stature to her and those who take offense to and deem female MC's as inferior to their male counterparts as a threat to their perception of how a woman in the music business should move has a lot to do with it.
Why would DJ Akademiks report something he himself could not verify, that has not been verified by any other credible source or any of the other men within the Hip Hop industry (such as DJ VLAD & TDE's Reason) who are throwing her under the bus?
I mean after all, Sweeties not the only recent female who's been popular or had a hit of sorts that has not chartee or sold well.
With the names of Flo Milli, Baby Tate, Lakeyah, Erica Banks and the Legendary Lil' Kim coming to mind, if the shocking lack of numbers for a prominent female rapper is the case, why not mention them? I mean after all, Flo Milli and Lakeyah have both respectively had viral hits such as "Conceited" & "Mind Yo' Business" but neither of their projects charted or have even been mentioned.
Finally, the 2nd and 3rd point I would like to make are that you can't trust all of what you hear on Twitter and that album's sales/numbers are not the all and be all of being an music artist.
There was a recently a post going about on Twitter suggesting that Jennifer Lopez would be giving a Grammy Tribute to Whitney Houston that caused much uproar, but has since been deleted and was proven to be a lie conjured up by a troll.
With all this said, music is not even fractionally defined by album sales or numbers of any kind. That is the capitalistic and greed driven perspective of many a critic. No, music is so much bigger than that. Music is the expression of the soul in which you channel your emotions, experiences and God given gifts together to produce the sound of something that will captivate others in one way or another. And it's time to stop treating as less than.
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