This is the new model for mixtapes. It's dope man. The artist wins from it. And the mixtape crowd gets their fix. Also, it's original music. I wonder what dudes like Future will do from here on out. Especially with Future having an apple deal. Future made no money off of the 3peat. Imagine if he got at least 50k first week sales from Monster, Beast mode and 56 nights :x.
I hope people see why Young Thug does sht like this. 40k first week sales 3 or 4 times a year from a free mixtapes. I expected around 60k. But close to 85K for this tape is really impressive from a sales standpoint. Meek would do about 150k-200k first week come album time.
This puts into perspective what I've always thought. Love or hate Meek Mill....he's solidified himself one of the top 5 most popular rappers in the game right now. And still the lone fairly new street east coast street rapper that can move units.