Kendrick Lamar is not into these “big three” conversations. For the past few years, rap top-dog conversations have revolved around three names: Kendrick, Drake, and J. Cole. Kendrick and Drak...
Peter A. Berry is a former XXL staffer who’s been a writer-editor for close to 10 years. An aspiring tortured genius, he’s a lifelong rap fan and lover of all things dope, and if there’s a ...
It’s an old story, one that’s happened over and over again. An unknown act comes out of nowhere with a song that catches on in a huge way. And then boom: Before you know it, Drake jumps on a ...
https://www.stereogum.com/2254916/drake-joins-4batz-on-remix-to-viral-hit-act-ii-date-8/music/
Last year, Drake released his album For All The Dogs, which featured Sexyy Red and SZA on “Rich Baby Daddy.” Today, he shared the song’s video, which captures Sexyy Red having a baby.
Drake has message for the 2024 Grammy winners this year: “This show doesn’t dictate shit.” The rapper posted some text on his Instagram story as awards were being handed out during the pre...
Yasiin Bey, formerly Mos Def, has racked up years of credibility in rap since launching his career in 1994. On a new episode of the fashion podcast The Cutting Room Floor , he was asked if he con...
Drake has shared a music video for “You Broke My Heart” that features Morgan Wallen. Wallen appears at the beginning of the Theo Skudra-directed video, talking with Drake at a restaurant and ...
Nicki Minaj released Queen , her last album, way the hell back in summer 2018. When it came out, Nicki was upset that Travis Scott’s Astroworld kept her out of the #1 spot; that’s how long a...
Drake and his associates are bringing back Luna Luna as an exhibition in Los Angeles this month. Although I’d never heard of Luna Luna before today, this seems like a fairly big deal.
Drake released his new album For All The Dogs last month, and after saying that he planned to take time off to deal with health issues, he’s already back with new music. Yesterday, Drake annou...
On the morning that Drake released his new album For All The Dogs last month, the artist went on his SiriusXM satellite radio show and told his audience that he was “having the craziest proble...
https://www.stereogum.com/2242921/drake-releasing-new-scary-hours-3-ep-tonight/news/
Last year, Drake headed out on his It’s All A Blur tour , hitting a ton of arenas with his frequent collaborator 21 Savage. When that tour came to Montreal, Savage, still dealing with immigrati...
https://www.stereogum.com/2242507/drake-j-cole-announce-big-as-the-what-tour/news/
Say what you will about Drake, the man who apparently just caught up to Michael ; God knows I have. But Drake is a student of rap — both its emerging trends and its history. So when Drake poste...
https://www.stereogum.com/2239517/violent-j-questions-whether-drake-is-a-true-juggalo/news/
Drake’s For All The Dogs track “First Person Shooter” debuted on top of the Billboard Hot 100 this week , which means that Drake is now tied with Michael Jackson for the most #1 hits by a ...
A few years ago, it became cool for big-deal A-list musicians to boycott the Grammys, their rationale being that the show has persistently ignored or shrugged off the greatest, most defining musi...
Drake came for Joe Budden in the comments of an Instagram post after the podcast personality criticized his new album For All The Dogs . Budden said that Drake is old and trying to appeal to you...
https://www.stereogum.com/2238411/drake-excoriates-joe-budden-for-criticizing-his-new-album/news/
As usual, Drake’s new album For All The Dogs is stuffed with guests, samples, subliminals, oversharing, and all manner of pop culture ephemera. One ingredient in the stew: About two and a half...
This motherfucker. I woke up this morning, and I was upset. The energy around Drake has been truly dark lately. The anhedonia. The self-indulgence. The persistent dwelling on petty grievances. Th...
https://www.stereogum.com/2238309/drake-for-all-the-dogs/reviews/premature-evaluation/
Say what you want about Drake’s choice of cover art, but the man knows how to get our attention. Remember the beautifully cringe pregnant emoji brigade from Certified Lover Boy ? The extreme cl...
https://www.stereogum.com/2234099/stream-drakes-new-album-for-all-the-dogs/music/
Drake is no longer hiding a child. Tomorrow, Drake will release his long-promised, slightly delayed new album For All The Dogs. He already released his sleepy, grumpy SZA collab “Slime You Out...
https://www.stereogum.com/2238147/drake-8am-in-charlotte/music/
At the moment, Drake and radio personality Charlamagne Tha God are not particularly happy with one another. It’s a tale as old as time: Charlamagne thinks that Drake’s new song is bad, and Dr...
https://www.stereogum.com/2237201/drake-takes-shots-at-charlamagne-tha-god-on-instagram/news/
“Started from the bottom , now we here.” In the bitter cold of winter 2013, Drake once again retraced his rise. Even by millennial standards, the man has always been obsessed with his own sto...
https://www.stereogum.com/2236741/drake-nothing-was-the-same-turns-10/reviews/the-anniversary/
Drake has once again pushed back the release date for his new album For All The Dogs, which was pegged to come out next week but will now be released on October 6. In a statement on his Instagra...
https://www.stereogum.com/2236442/drake-pushes-back-for-all-the-dogs-pisses-off-halle-berry/news/
It hath begun. For months, Drake has been teasing a new album called For All The Dogs. Today, he’s shared that album’s first single, and it’s his first-ever collaboration with fellow A-lis...
https://www.stereogum.com/2236368/drake-slime-you-out-feat-sza/music/
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bo...
Sotheby’s announced this week that a jewel-encrusted, crown-shaped ring once belonging to Tupac Shakur, worn during the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards, had sold for $1,016,000, making it the “mo...
https://www.stereogum.com/2231580/drake-was-the-buyer-of-tupac-shakurs-1m-crown-ring/news/
For Travis Scott, it’s been a rocky road to Utopia. Scott’s first new album since 2018’s Astroworld, Utopia was rumored for release back in 2021 but was pushed back after the crowd crush at...
https://www.stereogum.com/2231467/stream-travis-scotts-new-album-utopia/music/
On Wednesday night, Drake performed the final of several back-to-back shows at Madison Square Garden in New York for his It’s All A Blur tour. He also gave an update around his upcoming album F...
Everyone makes fun of Drake, but there’s a reason the guy became a dominant rap star. Every once in a while, he reminds us. This past weekend, Drake and the London rap star appeared together on...
https://www.stereogum.com/2231020/drake-central-cees-on-the-radar-freestyle-pretty-good/news/
In 2022, Drake and 21 Savage engaged in a fake promotional run for their collaborative album Her Loss that included a number of nonexistent appearances — on Saturday Night Live, Howard Stern, ...
Drake is currently on his first headlining North American tour since 2018. The oft-delayed It’s All A Blur tour is ostensibly a co-headlining trek with 21 Savage to promote their 2022 collabor...
https://www.stereogum.com/2230214/watch-j-cole-join-drake-in-montreal-in-place-of-21-savage/news/
Back in April, Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino talked about how his 2018 hit “This Is America” originally started out as a Drake diss track . “To be completely honest, ‘This is America...
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https://www.stereogum.com/2229273/dont-throw-your-phone-at-a-performer-even-if-its-drake/news/
After posting a reflective message about how he wonders if his whole life is a dream he’s been having since getting high before his Degrassi audition, Drake kicked off his It’s All A Blur To...
Before he was one of the most successful musical artists of all time, Aubrey Drake Graham famously rose to fame portraying the wheelchair-bound basketball star Jimmy Brooks on the teen soap opera...
https://www.stereogum.com/2229170/drake-says-he-was-high-when-he-auditioned-for-degrassi/news/
In March, Drake announced a North American tour — his first in five years — with 21 Savage opening. It was originally supposed to start in the middle of June, but in April, Drake delayed the ...
https://www.stereogum.com/2228854/drake-and-21-savage-delay-us-tour-again/news/
Drake has announced his first poetry book called Titles Ruin Everything, A Stream Of Consciousness by Kenza Samir And Aubrey Graham. Posting the news to his Instagram, Drake shared a photo of the...
https://www.stereogum.com/2228158/drake-releases-poetry-book/news/
J Hus has teamed up with Drake for a new single, “Who Told You,” the British rapper’s second new track of the year following last month’s “It’s Crazy .” In 2019, J Hus made a surpri...
https://www.stereogum.com/2226515/j-hus-who-told-you-feat-drake/music/
Lil Dicky got famous as an extremely annoying joke-rapper, but he’s gotten a whole lot more famous as the star and co-creator of a TV show about being an extremely annoying joke-rapper. He’s...
Baton Rouge rapper YoungBoy NeverBrokeAgain — known as NBA YoungBoy to hip-hop fans in the know — doesn’t usually enjoy speaking to other human beings. As he told the writer Meaghan Garvey ...
https://www.stereogum.com/2224288/the-nba-youngboy-conundrum/columns/lots-of-commas/