Show me where he spit anything close to 9 am for starters before I even attempt to discuss this

Drake has 0 bars

Show me his bars then cause as for as Drake goes it’s numerous songs I can list that’s full of bars

Nah Nellys run ended cause he took 4 years off after Sweat/Suit and came back with his weakest album. Then he switched to pop and had a massive top 5 hit for the following album in 2010.

I was just watching the KRS One/Nelly beef on YouTube channel that’s crazy

Yeah almost all legacy acts get booked still, I didn't talk about any of that

I said his peak run wasn't dominant and it's because his album run wasn't there

And even if any of those guys never passed, they still wouldn't be doing anything to surpass Drake
"Surpassing Drake" is a pipe dream that's been in the works since 2011, he's here and on top till he hangs it up himself

His peak run wasn’t dominant?

Nellyville is one of the best selling rap albums of all time. Dilemma and Hot in Herre are two of the biggest rap singles of all time. What are you talking about?

Drake probably gotta better business acumen/team then Nelly ever had but i'd argue that peak Nelly was actually bigger then peak Drake

Country Grammar
E.I
Rid Wit Me
Hot In Herre
Dilemma
Air Force Ones
Pimp Juice
Shake Ya Tailfeather
My Place
Over and Over

if Verzuz was 10 songs, rip most rappers tbh

Arguably, Nelly, Eminem and 50 Cent are the only three rappers to be bigger at their peak than Drake. At least commercially.

Wayne was probably as ubiquitous but it was more off the mixtape side so sales didn’t necessarily translate.

Sleeping on Just a Dream

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10 years of dominance?

I never said he didn't sell albums or singles lol, we know that
He caught 2 albums and went out

My point is he couldn't be "Drake before Drake" because he didn't do everything Drake does or even did coming into the game in 09. The hits are their only equivalence.

Sweat and Suit were massive albums too lol. “Two albums and went out”

And he had a massive hit with Just a Dream ten years after Country Grammar. His issue was taking four years off (something drake learned from and didn’t do and also at a time where 4 year breaks between albums were way less common) and then coming back with a meh album.

I'm at work

Maybe if you're 12 years old

I'd agree with everything you said if you didn't throw Wayne in their Wayne did a million first week with C3 and damn near did a million first week with C4,all during the biggest music pirating eras in history.

If listened bro if you going to make that statement please provide receipts

I guess I worded that weirdly, I was talking more like to say a lot of his big songs in that era weren’t on charts cause they were mixtape cuts that were downloaded off limewire and s*** lo

It’s cool to have an opinion but downplaying the facts isn’t going to get you anywhere

Never understood the Nelly = Drake comparisons being a slight to Drake considering Nelly was arguably the biggest rapper alive at one point. Both are great and icons in the game

the problem with nelly was that for how big he was he never really had that many actual hardcore fans lol

people really just f***ed with him cause his hits were money