Megan Thee Stallion opted to take over South Korea and ignore criticism from Joe Budden about her album sales numbers.
The Houston rapper released her new album, Megan: Act II, on October 25 with impressive first-week sales, making the project one of the top-selling albums of the year. The album brought in 64,000 album-equivalent units in its first week for a No. 3 debut on the Billboard 200 chart.
However, The Joe Budden Podcast hosts think that album sales numbers are no longer an accurate measurement of rappers and their artistry. The former Slaughterhouse rapper shared his feelings recently, alluding to his suspicion that the numbers might’ve been manipulated. “The numbers to me act as the stock report,” Budden said while shouting out Tyler The Creator for his new project.
“I big up Tyler because it’s not an artist thing,” he continues. “When we start talking numbers, we’re not talking artistry anymore. For me, I see the play on the blackboard, but the numbers is gonna tell what is and what’s not or why aren’t they being manipulated. If we putting you on everything spoken. If we tapping you to host the awards, we giving you the commercials, we putting you everywhere feasible, somebody that spent something to do with this is gonna want to see a number come back. It tells a story.”
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“Numbers are not a reflection of artistry and quality of music,” Budden insisted.
Megan Thee Stallion likely got wind of the rapper turn podcaster’s criticism and chose to ignore them. Instead, she jetted to South Korea with her team. The Houston Hottie shared several photos of herself wearing a cut Sailor Moon costume while in the streets of Seoul. Megan has shared that she is a huge anime fan and often dresses like some of her favorite characters. “Bad & Hot like Meg,” she wrote.
Aside from her new album, Megan Thee Stallion also has a new documentary, In Her Words, out on Amazon Prime. The documentary details her shooting incident in 2020 with Tory Lanez, which left the Canadian rapper with a conviction and prison time. She also came clean about her intimate relationship with the rapper, despite denying it in the past.
