NBA YoungBoy & DJ Khaled’s “Deshawn” Only Sells 11k

NBA YoungBoy and DJ Khaled‘s new mixtape, Deshawn, struggled to search out its means on the Billboard 200 chart after it is first week of availability. Having reportedly offered solely 11,000 in album equal items, it landed at No. 135, in line with Chart Information.

When DJ Akademiks shared the information on Instagram, followers got here to YoungBoy’s protection within the feedback part. “YB would not care bout them numbers …n***a barely markets his music …Tape was arduous asf tape in if u agreee,” one person wrote. One other added: “tape was arduous he simply not gone have that many streams trigger he drop so typically.”

YoungBoy dropped the venture, final Monday, abruptly. The tracklist comprises just one visitor look from Kevin Gates. It arrived simply weeks after YoungBoy’s eighth studio album, MASA (Make America Slime Once more).

NBA YoungBoy triggered loads of drama for his ex-girlfriend, Yaya Mayweather, when he dropped Deshawn. On the ultimate monitor, “This Month Confessions,” he raps: “I am that n***a, I acquired hella dope / She don’t love that I am accessible / Now Yaya pregnant, gotta make her do away with it, this ain’t the time, I instructed you, ‘No’ / I made you cry, now I really feel illiterate, b*tch, I ain’t tryna write no songs.”

Mayweather ended up denying the rumor about being pregnant in a press release on Instagram afterward. “Idk the place y’all getting this from however I am not pregnant,” she wrote the next morning. Her clarification got here after sharing a heartfelt congratulatory message for YoungBoy for dropping the mixtape. “I’m so pleased with you and every part you’ve been doing. it doesn’t matter what preserve going your power and dedication encourage me day by day. I really like you greater than phrases may ever clarify, and regardless of how distant you go on the planet I’ll at all times be right here for you, cheering you on. you’re by no means alone,” she wrote.