If Big Sean dropped Rich Flex or Cole made Wait For U I promise yall OP would be saying it's a mega hit. He has already admitted that his standards for Drake are different than other artists in the chart thread. It's just shameless how they single him out but it's clear Drake's success has something to do with it and I think his motive is to downplay it even if he presents it as an innocent unbiased question like this thread

Show me somewhere with black hot steps in a men’s 9 and I’ll cop 5 pairs rn

Blew mine out and I hate that I can’t get them anywhere

I mean, I engage because I'm a drake fan, but I'm not blind lol if it were true then so be it

EYE thought from every angle certain drake records were smashes, or mega hits or whatever. EVERYONE was saying "21 can ya do sumn fa meehhhhhh" it's genuinely surprising that that's not what a mega hit means on here

The standard isn’t One Dance though. Does Rich Flex feel bigger than a song like Over?

I was there when the hot steps sold out. You must talking about the restocks because that was when regular people non sneaker heads finally had a chance to cop

1000% it does?

I don't recall people attaching themselves to Over in the way that they attached themselves to the hook of Rich Flex

Rich Flex's songwriting transcended pop culture for a bit if we're being fr. Eye don't think over did that

And again, Over came out in 2010. I vividly remember the day it dropped. The climate is completely different.

I mean....this is the same site that tries to claim that Eminem and Kanye's musical legacies are permanently stained due to dropping some mid despite all their classics.

Not sure why that wouldn't apply to Drake.

Rich Flex was definitely his biggest song since Life Is Good, TikTok really boosted tf out of that song and he connected in a way he hadn't in a while.

But yeah, being someone who's followed his entire career it does feel like it's getting more difficult for him to have songs like that, whereas as recently as 2018 it was happening every few months. I don't think that's entirely his fault, it's a mix of things.

Nobody’s trying to downplay anything. I contribute to Drake’s streaming dominance, he’s one of my most listened to artists every single year. It’s great that he’s still wildly successful.

He still has a ton of hits this decade, none of them just feel like they’ve truly crossed over like his 2010s hits did

rich flex was literally everywhere and lets see... oh ya that was released 1 year ago

Rich Flex easily one of my favorite songs in a while but it is definitely not a mega hit

Did it transcend pop culture, or was it just a viral meme for a bit?

Over is a way bigger record than Rich Flex man, that hook is iconic

1 week (continued from sales thread) and 3 alts later OP and the two other users tagged been arguing about this. It’s time to move on

Nocta less successful than Ivy Park

Rich Flex being the main point is interesting though. So many people feel like that’s undoubtedly a mega-hit and then the other half feels like there’s no way that it is. Interesting that that’s the case

I said to the mods to lock the thread after Divine entered but they just chose to ban me again for whatever reason

Rich Baby Daddy isn't quite Rich Flex but it's having a moment.

Again, I just think that these songs feel more muted in comparison to singles that came out pre 2020 because the climate is completely different and we should adjust our evaluations accordingly.

Every album it feels like he's had at least something ring off.

I just think by today's standards, Rich Flex is the closest we're going to get to a mega hit and if that's not a mega hit then we've kind of lost the plot with this discussion because it checks off every box in my view IMO

I don't think there's a meaningful difference anymore, at least in the context of this discussion

The song blew up in large part because people thought the way Drake said 21 CAN YA DO SUM FA MEH sounded funny

Still a big hit tho

Over's hook was massive, yes. Also, we'd be saying the same thing about over if viral was a thing in 2010

I don't think Rich Flex was just a viral meme. Feels like '21 can ya do sumn for meeee' is going to be something that's going to stick for quite a bit. Time will tell.

bro is on his like 4th account

Because you keep reporting it dog

Yeah let’s be real, insane amounts of homophobia led to that song being as viral as it was

Because one of you keeps reporting it as if the mods don’t already know I’m an alt

Damn Wait For U felt like a smash to me too