With OVO Fest taking place in August, and Future’s newly announcedMonster Vs. Beast Mode Tour kicking off next month, Drake has a announced that he will be hitting the road for the “Jungle Tour” alongside Future.
October’s Very Own and FreeBandz’s own will embark on a 6-show stadium tour next month which will include stops in Houston, Detroit, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, and New York, where the 6 God will be headlining the Governors Ball Music Festival.
Drake‘s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and Kendrick Lamar‘s To Pimp a Butterfly are vastly different hip-hop artifacts, made by artists who use their voices in vastly different ways. And yet, in the gulf between them, something does emerge, something invisible but real. With both records, you hear two artists honing in on their message by exploring the outer reaches of the most elemental tool available to them.
Drake later acknowledged the L in his own IG pic, posting a photo of a University of Kentucky basketball with what is presumably six racks under it. “Congrats to the Badgers on a hard fought game and congrats to @losangelesconfidential for taking some money off my hands. Not many ppl can 😂 We’ll be back next year!!!,” he put in the caption.
Nicki Minaj becomes the first female artist to chart four songs simultaneously in the top 10 of Billboard‘s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop airplay chart (dated March 28), as “Feeling Myself,” featuring Beyonce, rises 11-10. Two males had previously achieved the record: Lil Wayne (first in 2008) and Drake (2011), each of whom has quadrupled up in the top 10 in multiple weeks.
Drake rules 42 percent of the 50-position Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (dated March 7), as the hip-hop star has 21 concurrent songs on the tally — breaking his own record for the most simultaneously charting hits in the history of the chart. (The new chart will be refreshed on Billboard‘s websites on Thursday, Feb. 26.)
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If you’re reading this, Drake’s done it again. According to Hits Daily Double, his surprise mixtape If Youre Reading This Its Too Late, will top the Billboard charts with an estimated 541,585 buys. Album or not, this marks Drizzy’s fourth consecutive number one. Views From The 6 coming soon.
UPDATE: Final tally according to Billboard, 535,000.
Maybe it was always the plan to drop a Views From the 6 leftovers project, maybe they just came up with it and labeled it as an album after things fell apart with Lil Wayne, maybe either of the above, but those are some gripping maybes.
And if this isn’t Views From the 6, what if this album isn’t just a surprise to us, what if it’s a surprise to Cash Money too? What if that title is aimed at Birdman specifically? By the time Birdman saw that an album was out and read its title, it was already too late to try to keep Drake at Cash Money any longer.
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