Future isn’t too pleased about Drake and 21 Savage’s latest joint album — in response to N.O.R.E., anyway.
The Drink Champs persona crammed in as visitor co-host of The Breakfast Club on Thursday (January 26), the place he spilled the tea about Hendrix’s supposed bitterness in direction of the Her Loss duo in the course of the present’s “Rumor Report” section, which was previously dealt with by Angela Yee.
As N.O.R.E. defined, he’s been listening to rumors about Future being upset that Drake dropped a full-length undertaking with 21 Savage as he apparently feels it might overshadow their What a Time to Be Alive collaboration from 2015.
“I heard there’s a big rumor that Future is not too happy with this Drake and 21 Savage album, and it makes Drake and Future’s album not as important, I would say,” N.O.R.E. mentioned. “This is allegedly, this is all rumors, I’ve never heard it from Future’s mouth, never heard it from Drake, never heard it from 21, but it’s an alleged big rumor that’s going on right now.”
N.O.R.E. went on to say that Future’s alleged emotions are comprehensible contemplating most top-tier rappers have a tendency to not follow-up collaborative tasks.
“We’ve never seen JAY-Z do another Best of Both Worlds,” he mentioned. “We’ve seen Watch the Throne, but that was an equal [pairing]. And even that Jay Electronica [album] was credited as the album, like there’s certain songs that don’t even say ‘featuring JAY-Z.’ So it’s different.”
The “Superthug” rapper additionally saluted Drake for “spreading” Hip Hop via his prolific collaborations whereas saying that him dropping a joint undertaking with 21 Savage successfully places the Slaughter Gang boss on the identical “level” as Future.
“We gotta big up Drake because Drake, to me, is learning how important he is to the culture and he’s spreading it,” he continued. “More so once you do a complete album with 21 Savage — and with all due respect to 21 Savage — it’s like, you’re placing 21 Savage on that degree now. Even although he in all probability was on that degree, however now, you’re placing him on the extent of Future.
“And Future is arguably one of the most influential artists ever. I mean, I look at these kids and all the drugs that they taking, and it’s all for Future. I’m sorry!”
Charlamagne Tha God interjected by saying he doesn’t personally consider Future is “petty” sufficient to carry a grudge towards Drake over such a trivial factor, to which N.O.R.E. replied: “Nah. I mean, we getting too much money to be upset. But it’s a little discrepancy, that’s what I heard.”
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Future and Drake’s What a Time To Be Alive LP was launched in September 2015 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart after transferring 375,000 models in its first week.
Her Loss additionally topped the Billboard 200, however with a barely greater opening tally of 411,000 album-equivalent models. It additionally produced one of many largest streaming weeks ever, producing round 500 million performs.
However, it’s value noting that What a Time to Be Alive arrived only a few months after the Billboard charts started counting streaming knowledge in direction of album gross sales, and streaming was a considerably extra widespread methodology of music consumption in 2022 than it was in 2015.
Commercial efficiency apart, Her Loss might rank greater than What a Time to Be Alive on Drake’s private rating of his albums. During an interview on his SiriusXM radio present Table For One on the time of its launch, the 6 God known as the undertaking “one of the greatest albums I ever made in my life.”
“[Her Loss] is one of the greatest albums I ever made in my life,” he proclaimed. “I said the other day, I think this is a clear entry into my top five of my catalog — if not, top three.”
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