DJ Mustard believes that Drake is behind the lackluster sales of his Faith Of A Mustard Seed album. The producer claims the Toronto rapper, DJ Akademiks, and Gordo SZN sabotaged his album rollout. On Friday (Aug. 2), he hopped on X to share his frustration. “Drake is the Malcolm x of white people [laughing emoji] and @Akademiks make sure you post @GordoSZN
first week since drake thought he did a thing with making him drop on the same day as me [laughing emoji].”
In another post, Mustard claimed that “Album sales are a form of white supremacy.” While no evidence has been presented linking Drake, Akademiks, or Gordo, it’s clear Mustard thinks something happened.
Response To DJ mUSTARD’S ‘Faith Of A Mustard Seed’
Released on July 26, Faith Of A Mustard Seed, sold only 18,000 units in its first week. The project served as the hitmaker’s fourth studio album. Guest appearances ranged from Kirk Franklin and Lil Yachty to 42 Dugg, and Vince Staples. Faith of a Mustard Seed was the follow-up to the 2019 album, Perfect Ten. Despite his recent comments, in a recent Billboard interview, Mustard claimed that Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” served as the perfect album rollout.
“I keep saying it and I can’t say it enough — it’s gotta be God,” Mustard tells the outlet. “What am I gonna do to get myself back hot? … How are we gonna spark to where people are like, ‘I wanna hear Mustard again.’ … Then the song came out. There’s my rollout.” Prior to their collaboration, Mustard revealed he’d waited a long time to work with Lamar. “I’ve been literally trying to get a song with him for years… Before I even made that beat, I got to a point where I was like, ‘I’m gonna send five beats a day.’ I maybe sent him five beats a day for maybe three months.” That said looking at his first week’s sales, it doesn’t seem that it worked out too well for him.