Saweetie is hitting back at the sour response to sales of her new EP ‘The Single Life.’
Announced with less than a day’s notice, the six-track set arrived as a bridge of sorts to the rapper’s long-awaited album debut ‘Pretty B*tch Music.’
As can be the case with “surprise” sets (and similar), it appears the lack of heads-up may have been the cause of the project’s less-than-stellar sales. Indeed, it’s believed the project only shifted 2000 units in the US first week.
The numbers (or lack thereof) sparked debut in earnest on social media – with everyone from fans to Joe Budden to fellow artists weighing in.
Now, Saweetie is offering her two cents.
See what she had to say below…
Taking to Twitter, the femcee wrote:
“hate parade… i must be that b*tch!!!😘”
She added:
“i make music for pretty bitches! if you can’t relate i understand 🙇🏽♀️💗”
And also put a critic on blast:
i hope all 2,000 support you babes 🤞🏽 https://t.co/ZvHO3jiHn3 pic.twitter.com/wMlC0WLIAh
— iCY MAMiii (@Saweetie) November 27, 2022
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Let’s keep it 100.
The whole situation is incredibly embarrassing for all involved and it’s clear Saweetie is attempting to save face. No one, especially an artist with her profile and portfolio of previous hits wants any kind of proximity to numbers like these. So, yes, there is a problem, a disconnect, a…something.
However…
For yours truly, folk are doing a touch too much.
Here at That Grape Juice, we crunch numbers like this week in and week out (see: Chart Check); in today’s streaming climate, many an artist (known and new) are selling equally as dismal numbers. Optically speaking, it feels as though Saweetie is an easy target to pile on for those who didn’t care for her musically to begin with.
Enough from us, though. What are…
I still to this day can’t name one of her songs or even heard one of them. 2000 sounds accurate
She must not be that bychhh!!
I uff with Saweetie. She’ll get her credit due, soon. We just need a BIG hit, but she’s got this. 🙌❤️
Never got her hype tbh. Even looks wise
You can’t be that b**** if you selling 2K first week but if that makes her feel better..
She’s over, gone and dusted. These broads really think they have a career when they don’t!
With a name that reminds you of Sweat! She was doomed from the beginning lol
She thinks she’s bigger than she really is so arrogant to be such a flop
TGJ, STFÙ
Report the news and stop giving commentary
Leave the commentary for people who visit ur ghetto blog. Clowns
Twitter is so fake.
Her tweets getting 100k, 200k likes but none of those people going out to buy or stream her stuff. This is the same thing with normani .
All these women that watermelon Twitter love to hype, they never support them in real life
This is why normani scared of releasing her album.
1 flop single every year, that’s all yall gonna get
Get it through your thick skull that liking tweets or pics on social media doesn’t equate to support!! Just because someone thinks an artist is pretty, funny or can dress doesn’t mean they’re interested in the music!! Clearly people like Saweetie the PRODUCT not the rapper. Find another point for gods sakes….
Normani can pull even more sales than this flop
Ill support her by paying her for a d*ck suck lol