DJ Akademiks Defends 21 Savage As Botting Rumors Run Wild

DJ Akademiks addressed the continuing rumors about 21 Savage allegedly utilizing bots to extend the streams for his new album, What Happened to the Streets? In doing so, Ak shut down the thought, however nonetheless known as into query the validity of the challenge’s success.

“Savage’s streams look regular. ‘Mr. Recoup’ is the track that is protruding. If we take a look at the streams proper now, it is making up for about 4 or 5 songs on the album. If we’re speaking about weighed streams, it is streaming fairly effectively compared to the opposite songs. That’s not botting exercise,” Akademiks started.

From there, Ak introduced up a report from Talk of the Charts, which claimed that 37,000 pure gross sales have been filtered from What Happened to the Streets?. Admitting that he posted and later deleted the information, Ak continued: “This will not be a scenario of botting. If it was botted, it might be astronomically inflated streams.”

“I by no means mentioned there was no proof of manipulation,” Ak finally admitted. “I mentioned there was doable manipulation.” He then alleged that Savage and his workforce could have adjusted the gross sales numbers whereas handing over their retailer knowledge to Billboard.

21 Savage dropped What Happened to the Streets? as his fourth studio album on December 12. The challenge options collaborations with Young Nudy, Latto, Drake, GloRilla, G Herbo, Metro Boomin, and Lil Baby.

After sharing the album, Savage made headlines for reaching out to Young Thug and Gunna in a publish on X (previously Twitter). He requested them to place their long-standing beef apart and work collectively once more. The two have been at odds since Gunna took a plea deal within the YSL RICO case in 2022.

This led to a viral “f*ck the streets” campaign on social media. In his publish, Savage had written: “@gunna @youngthug Yall n***as repair that sh*t. Yall love one another n***a you knew gunna wasn’t no gangster when he informed the primary time and we swept it underneath the rug for you you already know he wasn’t tryna depart you to hold n***a f*ck the streets we ain’t get sh*t however trauma from that sh*t.” Thug replied to the publish: “F*ck the streets.”