Legend and icon are two different things. There are many, many legendary producers who are not icons. Being an icon can be as much about image and mystique as anything.

Fam, Drake been on ICON status for at least the last 5 years. He birthed a whole new music genre and a generation of artists.

He has plenty hits but Hotline Bling and IMF put him on another level. Everybody and their mothers blasted those songs and made the challenge, it was a global cultural thing.

To this day the memes out of those 2 songs are still fresh af and widely used. And this is all just social talk, if we look at the numbers he definitely a legend and icon, not only in hiphop or music but in general.

We take Drake for granted because he is just there doing his thing but we watching the run of one of the greatest artists of all time.

Yeah that’s cool but Fam, Drake been on ICON status for at least the last 5 years. He birthed a whole new music genre and a generation of artists.
He has plenty hits but Hotline Bling and IMF put him on another level. Everybody and their mothers blasted those songs and made the challenge, it was a global cultural thing.
To this day the memes out of those 2 songs are still fresh af and widely used. And this is all just social talk, if we look at the numbers he definitely a legend and icon, not only in hiphop or music but in general.
We take Drake for granted because he is just there doing his thing but we watching the run of one of the greatest artists of all time.

Y'all use words like icon and legend too easily.

As a Drake stan since 08-09, I gotta go with Beyoncé

Buddy really fixed his mouth to say Drake been an icon for at least 5 years

Nah fam, reality is that Drake has plenty haters that try to minimize his impact.

The title could have been "Thug, Drake, Dababy" and i bet yall the same dudes that dismissed Drake would do it again.

Hate is not an exclusive Drake thing tho. Kendrick gets the same treatment sometimes, the "good" guys cant win.

Whats an ICON? whats a legend? and why beyonce and ri can be one but the boy that has broken all records, has the most sales and has been viral plenty and a cultural shift, cant? . Some dude even claimed he wasnt big outside usa and some european countries, like did you know Latin America and Africa?

i didnt know Drake fans were so agressive lmao.. they can orobably go toe to toe with the twitter beyhive lol

When it’s time to recoup.

how out of touch with reality are drake stans

Beyonce

Opposite order as title

Riri by far if we talking internationally
Then Drake
Then B

braindead take

Beyonce is way more famous than Drake globally.

I'm from a city full of immigrants and people born overseas. Even people outside America who don't f*** with Bey's music knows exactly who she is and she's been around for a long time.

Drake is still not particularly famous outside North America and Western Europe.

Plus, Bey has greater touring numbers.

Drake is still a streaming and hitmaking Juggernaut but I still would put Bey over him as an icon.

Beyonce by a football field

I remember on Reddit there were foreigners saying that Travis Scott of all people was on a similar level of popularity as Drake overseas.

I'm not saying that they're right or anything but there's no way anyone would argue if Beyonce or Travis f***ing Scott was more popular overseas lol.

Beyonce not even a contest

Drake wishes he was iconic as Riri or Bey

For real.

Beyonce has been famous for so long, it's almost crazy.

Like I remember watching an episode of Last Comic Standing from back in like 2006 where an older White woman was making a joke calling herself Beyonce and calling her husband "Lay-Z".

And the whole crowd cracked up.

Not to mention she was damn near the face of Destiny's Child.

She's the highest grossing Black touring act ever.

And her Beychella performance is still praised and talked about today.

That said, Rihanna is no slouch when it comes to her hitmaking ability and Fenty brand.