That's not really a "stan" imo. Superfan and stan are different and the former can be healthy. I'm a Three 6 Mafia superfan and probably even a Travis Scott one but I do not pry into their personal lives like that and don't care if people criticize them on personal grounds. A "stan" basically believes they are a friend of the artist at hand but in fact have no actual relationship with them. Or, in the case of some Drake stans, believe Drake to be a romantic partner of theirs beyond just thinking he's good looking. Like think of the "Stan" music video for a bit, and songwriting, and see how that very closely pairs up to the true standom Drake has. And I don't even think dude likes it is the thing.

Damn you’re furious lmao

It's a lot like how Eminem stans very obviously place a giant emphasis on him being white as this perceived domination Eminem has over black people when Eminem himself rejects that perception wholesale. Yes Eminem likes friendly competition and he like any great emcee will believe himself to be the best, and the argument can be made, but we all know the type of mess Em stans pull to defend him and Em hates it. Drake's whole "tough guy" angle in the last few years has been to try and shake that very phenomenon from being so closely associated with him but it just doesn't work because the stans are just too attached, as with Em's race and as with Kanye when he endorses fascism.

This written by a ChatGPT of a 40 year old Joe Budden listener?

*37

I'm not 37

Yeah I hate that goofy ass Taylor-Swift-Stan-esque behavior for sure like those dudes who trashed Kanye's old house or w/e when drake even said that was goofy af... However, I have drunkenly DM'd drake telling him his music got me through my exams and the bar in law school right before I went to the Aubrey & Migos tour tho so I might qualify for the Stan list

Still no imo. Music has a lot of power and plays huge roles in people's lives. I've told artists on social media they've inspired me a lot and sometimes they reach back, it's really cool!

Being a superfan is cool and most artists love meeting their superfans. They find their stans to be genuinely creepy and make fun of them a lot

Aubrey stans still mad going on 6 years.

Go paint your nails like your idol

Wassup

Drake never responded to Adidon fam...

I will, thank you.

Think it was Joe Budden Podcast interview in 2018

That or Breakfast Club during Daytona rollout

I think you're referring to when he was talking to Joe about 'Let Me Love You', he did say he was mad when that song didn't pop

push don't chase hits, he runs from em

What's crazy is how Drake stans overcompensate for literally no reason the only album in hip hop that is truly bigger than Take Care is Em's first greatest hits compilation lmao and that's not even a studio album. Kendrick has a few weeks on Drake on Billboard with GKMC but Drake has triple the sales

It's deadass in the books that man is an icon and y'all are acting like it's still 2011 lol. By 2015 it was cemented that man was an all-timer. I lived through that and remember it vividly, IYRTITL was the tape where everyone just kinda stood at attention. The hype for Views after that was the most hype for any album I've ever lived through besides The Eminem Show

Drake been holding this L for so long

Painted nails are cool as hell

That's a way to put it lmao

this s*** is so played out, they should box or something both lame as f*** they are too old for this bullshit