The city Girls are addressing their low album sales blaming ‘poor management’ and ‘poor timing’.
As we reported The City Girls‘ new album, RAW (Real Ass Whores), had some pretty low numbers the first week to the tune of about $8000.
The ladies visited The Breakfast Club on Thursday October 26th telling the hosts:
“It’s tough times. You get what you put in, in this shit. And I feel like, collectively, we didn’t do what we had to do to promote the album,”.
“But if you don’t go hard with promoting your shit, and putting it in people’s face, it’s like, of course it’s going to miss people.”
Later in the interview, JT also suggested that it was bad timing.
“Right now, stunting ain’t cool, because people broke,” she said. “I feel like we have a bad timing thing. I feel like our timing, and our management, is poor. We’ve got poor management, poor timing — like, it’s really never no strategy. We just out here, like, why the fuck are we at The Breakfast Club a week after our thing dropped?”
Raw is the duo’s third studio album and JT had high hopes she told Variety:
“It’s like a stepping stone.”
“You know how sometimes you just feel like you see everything coming together, but you’ve waited for it to happen for so long? I just feel so excited. I feel like it’s going to shut a lot of people up too.
I feel like a lot of people are going to tune in just to have something to say, and when they finally listen to it, they’re going to like it.”
There’s something for everyone on “RAW,” shorthand for “Real Ass Whores,” an album that stays true to the revved-up party-starters that bolster their discography.
JT’s “No Bars,” which dropped in the lead-up to the album’s release, sets a defiant tone, while Muni Long sands down the edge with an R&B touch on the slinky “Emotions.”
Then there’s the brash, empowered City Girls that fans know too well: “Show Me the Money” demands respect (plus a Coupe and a Birkin); “Work For It” emphasizes that nothing comes for free, and the Lil’ Kim-sampling “Tonight” pulls no punches about what happens behind closed doors.
“RAW” is precisely what its title suggests: a record comprised of classic City Girls, from the X-rated lyrics down to the familiar samples (like Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and Willie Hutch’s “I Choose You”).
They also take new swings, swerving into the pop lane on the glitter-bombed “Flashy” featuring Kim Petras.
“We never really did a pop record,” says JT, who explains she heard a few different people on the hook before deciding Petras was the best fit.
“It’s an experiment for the both of us. You just never know, and I feel like it’s just us trying something new.”
“Right now, it feels like there’s a lot of people doubting us,” says JT. “It’s just a bitter time for a lot of people coming out of the lockdown and people feel so entitled and opinionated and it’s just popular to be hateful right now. I won’t say that people are just hating on us, I just see a lot of hate in the world. I hope that this album puts fun back into music from our direction. I hope it makes them fall back in love with us.”