On November 25th, the music video for the song “Forever” was released on the DrakeVEVO YouTube channel (shown below, left), raking in over 53 million views and 170,000 comments in the next four years. As of October 2013, Drake's social media presence on Twitter and Facebook command more than 12.7 million followers and 31 million likes, respectively. On June 6th, the official Drake website was launched, featuring biographical information, tour dates, music and videos of the artist.
On May 23rd, 2009, the official Drake Facebook page was created. On March 14th, 2007, the official Twitter feed was launched for the then-cast member of Degrassi: The Next Generation.
This time, Drake rapped, “it’s set in stone.Drake is the stage name used by Canadian actor and recording artist Aubrey Drake Graham, best known for his role as Jimmy Brooks on the Canadian teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation and post-acting career as a recording artist. 3 release date late last month with a lo-fi, guerrilla-looking ad that cut in during an ESPN “SportsCenter” broadcast.Īnd on a Trippie Redd track titled “Betrayal,” the rapper indicated that the hubbub surrounding West’s “Donda” would not affect his final release date. As West toured a still-in-progress “Donda,” Drake appeared to stake a claim to a Sept. 1 single (“What’s Next”).Īfter months of only cryptic updates on the album’s status, a collision course with West began to seem inevitable as the summer wound down and the two A-list rappers resurfaced. But the album never came another holdover, the three-song EP “Scary Hours 2,” followed in March and resulted in another No. He promised a studio album that summer, and the would-be lead single, “Laugh Now Cry Later,” hit No.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with a surprise mixtape, “Dark Lane Demo Tapes,” featuring songs that had leaked online. In the spring of 2020, the rapper followed the single “Toosie Slide,” which reached No. He vowed to stop cursing in his music, a promise he upheld on “Donda,” even censoring his guests.ĭrake, meanwhile, released a steady stream of music even as he made himself more scarce. Trump, embarked on an ill-fated run for president and turned toward gospel, releasing a Christian-themed album, “Jesus Is King,” in October 2019. In the years since, the artists’ paths diverged, even as they occasionally butted heads online and on record. The digs, in song and on social media, continued a pattern of petty slights, direct and indirect, between the two that dates back years, with the relationship having seemingly curdled irrevocably around Drake’s musical beef with Pusha-T, a West affiliate, in 2018. “Give that address to your driver, make it your destination/’Stead of just a post out of desperation,” he raps on the track “ 7am on Bridle Path.” Listeners on Friday were quick to notice Drake’s apparent ripostes to West. Drake seemed to respond with multiple photos of himself laughing.) (West also uploaded a screenshot of what appeared to be Drake’s Toronto address before deleting it. I promise you,” and included an image of Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker. (The rappers’ record labels share a parent company in Universal Music Group.)Īfter Drake appeared to poke fun at West’s age on a guest verse for a Trippie Redd track last month - Drake is 34 and West a decade older - West posted a text exchange online in which he wrote, “You will never recover. 50 Cent chart face-off of 2007, fans have been eager to compare the two new works, commercially and artistically, in line with the pair’s latest stoking of their own long-simmering rivalry. 13, precluding a direct repeat of the West vs. And although Drake’s first-week sales will not be finalized until Sept. The cover of Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy.”īased on Drake’s streaming dominance - he was the first artist to hit 50 billion streams on Spotify, by at least one count - “Certified Lover Boy” is all but certain to reign as one of the year’s biggest releases.