Real question is, considering what this album sounds like and talks about, plus the way some / several critics (for example, Jon Caramanica of NY Times, Jeff Ihaza of Rolling Stone, Craig Jenkins of Vulture and Stephen Kearse of The Nation all got on a pod and spent an hour talking about how agreeably mid the album is) agree it isn't it impressive or more importantly relatable or enjoyable, isn't it a little interesting it can still hold #3?



I hit this a bit in the "review" post above but there was something about the sales wars back in the early '00s that felt real no matter what level of rapper you were arguing about, but it was also only ever rappers that fans argued over sales. You're a bit younger than me and I wonder, as somebody who was in those discussions then and couldn't ever decide whether I cared if Mos Def sold more than Ja Rule or Kanye sold more than 50 Cent (hint: hype can be wild distracting to a college kid) if in 2022 it matters at all what a so-called "album sales" ranking is.



Just thinking critically, it feels like simply by connection to what's come before a curious music listener in 2050 is gonna look back at 2022 and stream Mr. Morale before Harry's House...right? So what's the point in having the NBA leading scorer type conversation anymore?


Edit: If anything, I'm interested in why my people aren't rallying around Jack Harlow the way many, many money men probably thought they would.


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