That's absolutely nuts. I think Butterfly did like 315k first week. He crushed Drake. Also didnt realize that Humble flew to #2 on the charts first week. Not only is that Kendrick's highest charting song, I'm pretty sure that is his first single in the Top 20. This all makes me so happy.
The initial projections for this were down in the 400k region. He's easily the most popular rapper right now.
Just listened to it backwards. Wow. It works way too well for him to not have seriously thought about it.
As in track order backwards, or literally spun that thing backwards? I've been wanting to listen to the tracks in reverse order, maybe I'll do that today.
Reversing the track list and starting with DUCKWORTH. It becomes an album about the world wearing him down until he becomes a stereotype, his eulogy being remembered by his simplest lines.
Just realized the cousin Carl mentioned in Yah is the one with the phone call at the beginning of Fear.