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He may, he might have a right to feel like he's being blackballed.

Maybe he's not invited in the same rooms he was invited in before.

He might not be invited back to the Grammys for a while.

He might not be invited back to, you know, Jay Leno or wherever he was at before his comments.

Mainstream, mainstream.

But,

attain or acquire a cult fan base like that's that you gotta you getting into a different level of art and different level of talent when you talk about cult fan base like it's just a different it takes a different thing to break through that ceiling of I now have a cult following

True, because Playboy Carter can say exactly what DaBaby said and his streaming and everything would still be perfect.

Yeah, it'd still be a number one album.

It would still be perfect.

did what he did now his trajectory before that he was definitely trending up oh for sure that's why i think both bubbles can be true because both things can be true there that he didn't really evolve with his music but that should happen before he had the chance to even do so and if you're not evolving with your music and you're also not quote-unquote likable

Now both things are fucked up.

Because I think, to your point, yes, you don't get canceled.

But if you're also not evolving to create a core fan base, and now you're unlikable, the casual fan, even if they don't care about what you said, you may not be in their algorithms anymore.

Because Baby was very much a streaming artist.

Big on Spotify, big on YouTube.

I think he could have got there.

The Kirk album, I thought, had substance on it.

I think his...

He was on his way to being one of the best visual artists with music videos of that era.