yoda you can call me wrote:VINTAGƎ wrote:I doubt Rap God is the best song on the album. Em's gems (lol) are usually non single. Don't think he dropped TIC as a single. SFTM he did, but that was much much later. In any event...
I wonder how planned Rap God was. If Berzerk/Survival made more of a splash critically/commercially, do you think they would have dropped it?
maybe it was one big mind fuck by em on his fans. drops survival, people are convinced recovery 2 is on the way, drops berzerk, people are still not convinced that ems got it anymore, then blam, he drops rap god and peoples jaws are scraping the floor..
Haha true. I don't know. This whole album cycle has been very weird.
First they release Survival and say it's not a first single but a promo single for CoD.
Then they drop Berzerk and call it the first single.
Then the track list comes out and Survival is in fact on the album and not a bonus, so they released the second single before the first?
And then they drop Rap God which they're not considering to be a single but it's charting better than the other two.
I think they weren't happy with the reception of Survival and Berzerk and dropped Rap God knowing for sure it would create a buzz. I don't think it was all part of a bigger plan. I really think it was a last ditch effort to create a buzz. If Survival and Berzerk made a bigger splash, I think they would have saved Rap God for the album.