Damn this thread will be a mess, we don't have to get all mud slingy/childish with this

Regardless of what anyone feels though, Drake is a superstar and he was instrumental in the early marketing of Apple Music, he was actually part of the presentation for its launch at the Apple Dev conference, Views streaming release was heavily tied to AM

Drake is Mr AM
Weeknd is Mr Spotify

McDonald’s sold the most burgers. Want a cookie?

Behind closed doors lotta 6 god worshipping

twitter media love that photoshoot

not sure when it became his default

where is taylor swift on this list

your dwarf was put on the mcdonald’s promo run and could not compete, they handed him like 10 grammys and the general public went right back to the real goat

Which is funny cause Abel performed at that same event lol

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mind you kendrick performed at the 2025 super bowl and went into the year with an "instant classic"

at the end of the day, people want to be entertained & very few things will actually make most people stop listening to someone

Kanye still top 25 on Spotify even with all the messed up stuff he did

You gotta be R Kelly/Diddy ish time to have a good amount of people who will actually stop listening to you, even then there's always a bunch of ignant niggas who be like 'and I still stream R Kelly '

It’s always so funny when Drake stans act like him remaining a top artist somehow makes him the winner of the beef in the long run lol. Crazy Cope

And yet they say two Canadian Superstars can't coexist

Both of those things and Drake still being commercially bigger than him can be true at the same time

I don’t think anyone with a brain ever argued that Kendrick was more commercially successful than Drake

Not to mention it’s mostly back catalog yet again, NOKIA was the 13th highest streamed song on the platform in 2025, behind three Kendrick songs

Drake stans aren’t nuanced enough to understand a simple a***ysis like this

He was my top artist of the year 👍 thank you Drake! You’re the best!

Far as the Drake era man we in the golden ages

Nobody listening to your old s*** is no more of not being a flex than nobody listening to your new s***

But that’s not what’s happening

Drake’s back catalog is just more popular than pretty much anyone else’s in the history of rap music, no s*** it’s gonna be consumed more than Kendrick’s

For the hundredth time, nobody ever claimed that Kendrick was more popular than Drake across their whole careers, that’s a ridiculous statement

Did a quick Google of his historical Spotify monthly listeners and in late 2023 he was at ~50m monthly
Now he's sitting firmly at 70m and just finished a Stadium tour, so he's undoubtedly much bigger than he was before

I'm sure you agree that Kendrick's catalogue has less crossover appeal than Drake's because of the type of music he choses to make even with the many massive hits, TPAB, MMBS, and in general a catalogue of very lyrical hip hop aren't gonna get the same grip on the masses as Drake's approach of banger after banger

“Your dwarf” has me crying

Is it really not what's happening lol