Lil Wayne, Rich The Kid + Meek Mill’s First-Week Album Projections Are Confusing
Maybach Music Group’s Meek Mill, Lil Wayne and Rich The Kid should have zip-zero problems getting onto the Billboard Top 200 based on their albums’ first-week projections. However, initial estimates show a very lop-sided comparison.
Lil Wayne, Rich The Kid + Meek Mill’s First-Week Projections
Blame it on little promotion but Weezy F. Baby and Rich’s new Trust Fund Babies looks like it might struggle to get even a Top 10 look in its opening week. Meek Milly’s Expensive Pain is leading the way in estimates.
After a squeaker for #1 on last week’s HITS Top 50, the first chart of Q4 could be shaping up for a similar race. First-day sales and streams have MMG/Atlantic’s Meek Mill projecting about 90k with his 18-track Expensive Pain project. Last week’s runner-up, Drake’s Certified Lover Boy (OVO/Republic), would need to fall by one-third to give Meek a path to #1 based on today’s projection.
Meek Mill (MMG/Atlantic) 85-95k total activity, 1-3k albums
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga (Interscope/Columbia) 35-40k, 33-37k
Lil Wayne & Rich The Kid (Republic) 12-15k, <1k
Rich The Kid + Lil Wayne’s “Feelin’ Like Tunechi” Video Feels Good
A few days ago, rap stars Lil Wayne and Rich The Kid came through in the most unlikely of moments to drop their new Trust Fund Babies studio effort but not before unloading their must-see “Feelin’ Like Tunechi.”
The 4K video is pure cinematic gold and looks like it deserves to be an Oscar nominee. From posting up on luxury whips to reenacting a now-infamous and viral police investigation clip featuring none other than Lil Tunechi, you can’t help but embrace nearly 4 minutes of visual gold.
Rich The Kid Decodes Putting New Album Together
Recently, Rich chopped it up with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe to discuss the new studio effort.
“Man, it's exciting. I'm excited to get the response of the fans. I know they're going to go crazy when they hear it.”
In the same Q&A, Lil Wayne talked about his close-knit bond with the Atlanta rap heavyweight.
“First of all, Rich is like my little bro from day one, me and Rich had been rockin for years and we always said we were going to do something. We might do a song here and there, but we locked it in, got in there, and said we put our mindset and did it. As far as, as much as I gave on that, I do that every time I do anything.”
Lil Wayne Talks Inspiring Younger Artists
At the ripe old age of 39, Wayne knows he’s paved the way for current hip-hop stars. In the same Q&A, Weezy F. Baby talked about inspiring younger generations.
“Oh man, I don't think there's a, and I'm great with words. I don't think there is a word that can explain the feeling that I actually get. You know what I mean? Just the actual feeling, there's no word for that feeling. You can say grateful, thankful, I feel honored. But nah, it's a thousand, a million levels above that, when it comes to the actual feeling. Now I want to capitalize on something. Rich said, a lot of people always tell me how my music, my mixed tapes, or certain songs or something, got them through a certain point in their lives. I want them to know. I'll never say it, but I always want them to know, me doing that song at that certain time too has got me through that point in my life as well.”
