also my point still stands

name five professional music journalists who praised Scorpion, my point is that the masses are dumb as f*** while people on ktt keep s***ting on music journalism (people who ACTUALLY listen to tons of different music) while letting idiots and some stupid casuals decide who's great

Side A if Scorpion was mostly solid, don’t know what the f*** you’re talking about.

90 % filler

He just mad because it’s facts

They can’t downplay the numbers, dominance or success because it’s tangible and factual so they cling onto opinionated and subjective narratives

The time differences, stoopid

tbh

Wayne's my GOAT so I'm definitely not downplaying anything regarding him, I just remember how f***ing big Take Care and NWTS were, they really felt on a different level than the Em album and C4, and I bought the C4 CD day one.

I'm not even that big of a Drake fan but he ran the 2010s IMO, you can argue that early it was shared with whoever, but if he's the one that kept that run up for the second half of the decade he deserves to be called the one that ran the decade

1 top 40 radio station, and 2 rap/hip hop stations in my small city and it felt like most of 2011-2013 you could find Drake at any given moment between those 3. Same can't be said for Em and Wayne.

If you’re looking at when he started having #1 singles, his first wasn’t actually until One Dance, but a lot of people don’t consider that streaming didn’t count for Billboard charts till 2015, maybe? And it didn’t really start counting for a lot READ: accounting for the majority of almost any given rap/R&B artists’ total SPS sales, Drake specifically I think selling around 850k pure first week, ~1mil total with Views in 2016, then Scorpion in 2018 did only ~160k pure first week, ~730k total (over a billion streams) until the last 2 or 3 years so if that had been the case basically all his #1 rap or R&B charting tracks would’ve likely gone #1 overall consistently since Best I Ever Had Changes s*** up when the charts are based on what the largest number of people are actually seeking out to listen to instead of what radio politics dictate to an audience that usually is just passively listening while making their commute to work or wherever and more often than not wouldn’t choose these specific tracks to listen to on their own. Radio I think will maintain some relevancy for another 2 or 3 decades, but I think even if they exist after that, they’ll all have moved onto streaming platforms similar to podcasts and the like.

You can't compare album sales from 2010 to now for a reference of popularity. People actually bought albums for half of that run and the other albums like views were carried off giant smash hits like hotline bling. Not saying drake isn't the most popular rapper ever but context is needed

I’m doing an entire chart of the top 5 artist in the 2010s and it’s looking a little suspect for Drake. His run might be overrated. Would y’all be interested in this??

Trick question. After he laced up those Nikes, b

I wasn’t talking about now necessarily

I was talking about the time period that op referenced (‘10-‘13) plus IYRT

Op was talking about "running the decade". Just for context wayne sold a mill first week with carter 4 in 2011. Drake was not truly dominant until NWTS era when he got his big pop hit with hold on we're going home, and did features for mad upcoming big artists like migos, fetty wap. Before the pop s*** he's barely with wayne or ye

its crazy that drake been through many eras and has adapted to all of them very well, while isnt greatest artist in the world he knows how to move in this industry

i think views was when the world really took notice of him, generally couldnt escape in 16

this DUMBASS

Niggas don't realize how big SFG/TC Drake was. Just cause his #1 was a meme back then.

Well Sean was a huge prospect. But we quickly found he's forgettable asf

lmfao you stupid as f*** 😂

Like yeah mans been the biggest artist alive since like 2016 but early 2010-13 was still rappers like ye hov and wayne.

Literally talking about this part, aside from Carter 4 (which I noted in another post) he outsold all of the “big 3”’s albums

And plus Drake and Wayne were the most closely associated rappers anyway so comparing their sales to one another is dumb. Wayne is the one that placed Drake in his position

Weird op left out eminem which also outsold. My point is I can see Op's point about drake not being the dominant force in music he is now until 2014ish. Thank me later and take care weren't even top 10 selling albums in their respective years. Drake isn't getting outsold by anybody now. Until he went fully in the pop lane he was nowhere near biggest artist alive

2009 with Best I Ever Had.

I was 17 when he blew up with that, and it was probably the biggest smash hit from a rising artist since In Da Club, esp. with no star feature on the song.

After headlines he had a real grip so like 2011