TDE rapper Purpose is seeking to assist Saweetie together with her pen recreation following the alleged dismal gross sales of her latest mixtape, The Single Life.
In a sequence of tweets on Monday (November 28), the Los Angeles native shared his ideas on why the tape allegedly solely moved 2,000 items in its first week and supplied his resolution.
“The Saweetie album gross sales is humorous and many others nevertheless it’s additionally (in my humble opinion) a illustration within the lack of artist improvement,” Purpose wrote. “Saweetie is a star, she’s confirmed that! However you continue to should develop artist and assist them make higher data. I’d love to put in writing with Saweetie.
“And no this ain’t no decide me shit that is from one artist to a different, I personally imagine we should always deliver again artist improvement and never simply fear about social media. My 2 cents!”
And no this ain’t no decide me shit that is from one artist to a different, I personally imagine we should always deliver again artist improvement and never simply fear about social media. My 2 cents! 🤞🏾 https://t.co/dubkhoEc8X
— REASON TDE (@reasonTDE) November 28, 2022
The estimated gross sales have been reported by a Twitter account that was not related to official sources like Billboard or HitsDailyDouble, and have been posted earlier than the complete week was over. They’ve since not been reported by the aforementioned websites, however it’s confirmed that the hassle didn’t land on the Billboard 200 for the week of November 26, 2022.
Purpose is one in all a handful of notable names in music who’ve spoken out concerning The Single Life‘s gross sales. Producer Hitmaka positioned the blame on Saweetie’s A&R, whereas Sonny Digital couldn’t work out how the ICY GRL’s thousands and thousands of followers didn’t equate to at the very least a couple of extra gross sales.
“Saweetie promoting 2k is unhealthy A&R vibes,” Hitmaka wrote on Twitter. “Somebody’s supposed to inform u this ain’t it! I even have points together with her having a number of platinum singles & not sticking with similar formulation that acquired her right here. Somebody gotta get fired.”
Sonny tweeted, “13 million followers, a whole lot of 1000’s likes on all footage however album offered lower than 2000 copies. That’s loopy. The maths ain’t including up.
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“If I had thousands and thousands of followers and my album offered 2k I most likely would simply delete all my social media trigger y’all mendacity to me,” he continued. “Earlier than I got here right here to offer my opinion I did take heed to the album. I really listened to all the things that dropped that day. Simply out of curiosity to see what the competitors was on.”
DJ Vlad of VladTV additionally spoke out, saying Saweetie would have offered extra if her group hadn’t denied an interview along with his platform. A back-and-forth ensued, however ended with Vlad ultimately apologizing.
