Trump, embarked on an ill-fated run for president and turned toward gospel, releasing a Christian-themed album, “Jesus Is King,” in October 2019.
In the years since, the artists’ paths diverged, even as they occasionally butted heads online and on record. The digs, in song and on social media, continued a pattern of petty slights, direct and indirect, between the two that dates back years, with the relationship having seemingly curdled irrevocably around Drake’s musical beef with Pusha-T, a West affiliate, in 2018. Drake seemed to respond with multiple photos of himself laughing.) (West also uploaded a screenshot of what appeared to be Drake’s Toronto address before deleting it. I promise you,” and included an image of Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker. (The rappers’ record labels share a parent company in Universal Music Group.)Īfter Drake appeared to poke fun at West’s age on a guest verse for a Trippie Redd track last month - Drake is 34 and West a decade older - West posted a text exchange online in which he wrote, “You will never recover. 50 Cent chart face-off of 2007, fans have been eager to compare the two new works, commercially and artistically, in line with the pair’s latest stoking of their own long-simmering rivalry. 13, precluding a direct repeat of the West vs. And although Drake’s first-week sales will not be finalized until Sept. The cover of Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy.”īased on Drake’s streaming dominance - he was the first artist to hit 50 billion streams on Spotify, by at least one count - “Certified Lover Boy” is all but certain to reign as one of the year’s biggest releases. (John Lennon and Paul McCartney also have a credit, for the Beatles’ “Michelle,” which is used in the album’s opening track, “Champagne Poetry.”)
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Kelly, who has long faced accusations of sexual abuse, is currently on trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn for racketeering and violating the Mann Act, which prohibits transporting anyone across state lines for prostitution, and many people on social media took offense. Drake used that for “TSU,” also for an introductory segment.
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Kelly in his new track “TSU.” Kelly’s “Half on a Baby” (1998) - in its full version, not the more easily accessible radio edit - has a symphonic-sounding synthesizer preamble. While pushing cultural buttons was a significant part of West’s release strategy, Drake invited some scrutiny too, by sampling R. (Few women appear on either release.) Their stuffed track lists have become a standard industry strategy to maximize streams, and may be a key weapon in the chart contest between “Donda” and “Certified Lover Boy.”
A handful, like Scott, Jay-Z and Young Thug, appear on both LPs. “Donda” has its own deep bench of superstar guests, including the Weeknd, Lil Baby, Pop Smoke and Roddy Ricch.
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