Searching for the is about more than data compression. It’s about owning a specific era: the rise of trap as stadium music, the last breath of the CD/digital download hybrid, and the moment the Migos became icons.

Culture II debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with 157,000 album-equivalent units earned in its first week. The album spent 10 weeks at number one on the Billboard Rap Albums chart and was certified triple platinum by the RIAA in 2020. The album spawned several hit singles, including "Higher," "Salt at the Bottom," and "Narcos," which peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

This was the digital equivalent of walking into a bazaar in a foreign city where you didn't speak the language. In 2018, when the album had first dropped, finding it was easy. It was on DatPiff, it was on LiveMixtapes, it was a direct link on a hip-hop forum. But now? Now, it was a ghost hunt.