Drake breaks records with his new album, directly confronting Kanye West

After the first day of release, Drake’s album “Certified Lover Boy” broke the record for the album with the highest number of global streams in a day in Spotify history. Drake officially confronts his rival Kanye West when this male rapper also released the album “Donda” a week earlier.

Kanye West and Drake face off on the music race in September. Photo: Billboard.

Drake’s impressive achievements

Released on May 3, after just 1 day, Spotify recorded Drake’s album “Certified Lover Boy” reaching 153.4 million streams. Drake officially broke the record for the album with the highest global streaming volume in a day in Spotify history that he once set with the album “Scorpion”.

“Certified Lover Boy” is Drake’s 6th studio album after the success of the album “Scorpion” released in 2018. Previously, many sources said that Drake did not intend to release the album soon, but the conflict was fierce. between him and Kanye West recently, the Canadian male rapper decided to make a last-minute change and directly confront his senior on the music race in September.

“Certified Lover Boy” includes 21 songs with the participation of veteran names in the Hip-Hop world such as: Travis Scott, JAY-Z, Future, Lil Wayne, Young Thug,… Many songs on the album This time Drake’s song is based partly on legendary songs from the Hip-hop world and the US-UK music industry.

Drake, Photo : Billboard.

The album’s opening song “Champagne Poetry” is partly based on the song “Michelle” by The Beatles. Drake showed special respect and gratitude to two legends John Lennon and Paul McCartney by clearly stating that they co-wrote the song.

In addition, there is also “Love All” inspired by the intro of the legendary hit “Life After Death” by The Notorious B.I.G. In addition, another song “Papi’s Home” is notable for featuring the voice of female rapper Nicki Minaj.

Not only did the album “Certified Lover Boy” break the previous record that Drake himself had achieved, but the song “Girls Want Girls” (featuring Lil Baby) on the album also broke the record for the number of songs with the number of global streams in a day. highest in Spotify history, with 12,834 million views. In the US, “Girls Want Girls” achieved a similar achievement with 6.146 million Spotify streams.

At the same time, on Apple Music, “Certified Lover Boy” is also the album with the highest daily streaming volume in 2021.

However, the album has not been highly appreciated by experts. “Certified Lover Boy” currently has an average score of 58/100 on Metacritic. Meanwhile, the User Score (comments from the audience) only reached 3.3/10 from more than 600 reviews. The audience is still waiting for the album’s review score from the famous website Pitchfork.

Conflict and confrontation with Kanye West

In the Hip-hop world, Drake and Kanye West are two rappers with a deep feud, even though before that, they were close friends.

In the past, Drake and West were like each other’s destiny. Drake gives endless compliments and considers West his idol. “Kanye has a great influence on me. He helps me shape many paths. I can even say that Kanye is the most influential artist in my life,” Drake once expressed.

In response, West also praised Drake. The two sides have collaborated many times, creating successful music products.

However, the two rappers started fighting in 2009 through musical attacks on each other. At its peak, at the end of 2018, West posted 100 consecutive posts cursing Drake on Twitter because he thought the rapper had insulted his family in the rap song “Sicko Mode”.

Kanye West and Drake have many conflicts. Photo: Billboard.

The source of the conflict is said to be because West has collaborated with Pusha T – Drake’s longtime rival. Not only that, Drake repeatedly expressed his ambiguous relationship with Kim Kardashian – West’s ex-wife. A source from Heart magazine once revealed that the male rapper tried to approach and waited until Kardashian divorced West before he immediately attacked.

Personal conflicts caused the two to have a big fight over music products. The two rappers once confirmed that they would release a new album together on September 3, but West’s record label suddenly released the album “Donda” from August 29, making him upset.

Although “Donda” achieved some positive results in terms of views, music sites gave it a rather low score. Kanye West only received a score of 6.0 from Pitchfork, Metacritic gave it 53/100, and even The Independent gave it a round 0 score.

Currently, both Drake and West are racing to achieve listening and streaming achievements on top music charts.