Atmosphere, on the other hand, are the Replacements, if after “Hootenanny” and “Let It Be”, they released an album with fourteen different versions of “Waiting for Somebody”. Then, every album after that was so far past “Fairweather Johnson” that people started to mythologize “Waiting for Somebody”. And now, when I put on “Let it Be” at parties, girls look at me quizzically, and tell me I’m getting too old to be drinking 24 oz cans of Natty Ice.

That means 25,000 people heard this, and thought it was something they conciouslessly wanted to hear again in a recreational context, of their own free will:

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Come, come, nuclear bomb.

And yes, Rick Ross’s durability is indeed inexplicable. Of all the major label rap artists in the past few years who got signed off of one single and a bunch of hype but fizzled with moderate sales for their debut, he‘s the one that not only gets out a 2nd album in a timely fashion, but actually sells more than he did the first time? Has this talentless asshole actually grown on people?

They’re doing 2 sold out shows in LA so obvs somebody is listening to them….