Saweetie has issued a response to DJ Vlad after he claimed he could’ve “easily” boosted the dismal first-week sales of her new EP, The Single Life.
The Icy Girl’s six-track project, which dropped with little warning on November 18, is reportedly projected to earn just 2,000 album-equivalent units in its opening week, a remarkably low figure that has sparked plenty of discussion among fans and industry professionals.
DJ Vlad — the face and owner of the popular long-running YouTube channel VladTV — was among those who weighed in and claimed her sales forecast would’ve been much higher had she agreed to sit down for an interview with him to promote the project.
“If Saweetie did a VladTV interview she would have easily done 10x her first week sales, which was 2000 copies,” he tweeted on Thursday (November 24). “We actually reached out through one of our people and were told ‘she won’t do Vlad’. Her loss.”
Saweetie, who proved in her recent spat with Joe Budden that she isn’t one to hold her tongue when it comes to addressing critics, responded to Vlad the following day. The Bay Area rapper denied having any knowledge of an interview request while expressing her admiration of his work.
“Actually, I been a big fan & have screen recorded my favorite episodes. Here’s one of them. Dates on the top,” she replied on Twitter while sharing a screenshot of a VladTVinterview with Snoop Dogg she has saved on her phone. “So if anyone ‘reached out’ it wasn’t to me or my team, Dj Vlad. Happy Thanksgiving.”
DJ Vlad responded by informing Saweetie he had actually reached out to her team for an interview, but claimed her publicist turned him down.
“Thank you for the kind words, but actually, it is your team,” he wrote back. “Your publicist at Warner Bros is the one who blocked the interview. Same publicist who set up your interview with Shirley Ju. This is what happens when you have bad people in your corner making decisions on your behalf.”
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