but he probably never sees a purchase from me for the physical. If I like an album a lot - I want to get the vinyl.
I like Royce a lot as an emcee. I think he's brilliant. I put him in same group of rappers as Black Thought, Pharoahe, Lupe...
It's a different group from say another group that might include: Sigel, Scarface, and Prodigy.
I want to have discussions with people about albums where you could have the conversation... Could this potentially be held in same regard as a GREAT GREAT album or even classic?
He hasn't made that album yet, imo. And less and less artists are gonna make that album because like you said you can just skip.....)
artists are gonna continue to play the numbers game and release a lot of songs per album to get the streams. The vision and concept of an album is gonna get lost that way.
Create an album that flows, has the right amount of songs, know when to say enough is enough...
(I don't really care to listen to a Migos ALBUM but even them - no reason an aLbum needs to be like 27 songs)
...and the other songs recorded during the creation of the album can be released on streaming as well. label em outtakes or songs that didn't make it but were recorded during this time frame. get your streams that way.