Is drake the most popular rapper ever?

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You gotta look at it from a global perspective, breh.

Drake strategically has touched everything from the US, to Africa, to Latin America, to the UK.

I'm convinced his next record will have a K-Pop and Bollywood track to make the cipher complete.
Facts

Drake has number 1 songs and hits all around the world on some MJ shyt

This song is 13 times Platinum



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Views went 4x platinum in under a year and will have sold 6 million SPS by the end of the year


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Only about a 1 million and change are actual album sales. The rest....

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For perspective, Vanilla Ice sold 7 million with his first album. Is he bigger than Drake too? You're clinging to sales, I'm talking relevance and impact which sales is only 1 part of that.
 

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Man drake sold out the 02 arena 7 times during his last tour and those shows made over 13 million dollars

Damn near 2 Mill per show :damn:

And you talking about newspaper stories :stopitslime:



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LOL.....


when Drake sells out Wembley stadium like Eminem come and talk to me ....lol

you dudes talking about Arenas .....lol
 

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nah.

for starters, drake doesn't have the cultural impact for anyone to even suggest such a title.

hes one of the more crossover notoriety rappers. but even with that, hes top 10 at best.


Probably

It has everything to do with black women. They are super loyal and when they buy in their support will take you to the moon

He’s black Women GOAT and their is no number 2

Not to mention that Rappers can’t make pop, R&B and dip their toes into other genres quite like Drake


ll cool j is the black women goat.

most black women don't listen to drake.
you mean black girls & young black women under 25 or some chit......and even with that, youre more likely to see them at a future concert or somewhere else before a drake show.


Listen to what you just said.....Snoop came out when I was a kid. The fact that my kids know him and his music says all you need to know about the topic of the thread. You said EVER. Not today. My kids know Snoop as a rapper that does______. It's not a Ice T situation or a Will Smith situation where their careers on the big screen stretches longer than their musical career did. Snoop's popularity stretches back to the 90's.


will smith had ridiculously huge smash hits in 3 different decades.

that's more than I could say for snoop, who milked his fame off of that one album and parlayed it.


Drake is up there though. Will Smith is in the discussion albeit largely for his acting career. If Drake returns to acting and starts making movies it's a wrap.


fresh prince name was in this conversation BEFORE the acting breh.

he was going triple-plat when going gold was considered an outstanding achievement. years before bel-air.
 
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Only about a 1 million and change are actual album sales. The rest....

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For perspective, Vanilla Ice sold 7 million with his first album. Is he bigger than Drake too? You're clinging to sales, I'm talking relevance and impact which sales is only 1 part of that.
The topic of this thread is literally sales though :dwillhuh:
 

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Snoop at his peak is not bigger than Drake is now because rap wasn’t as big back then

Plus Drake peak is longer than Snoops

Your kids know Snoop as a rapper just like they know LL cool J or 50 cent as rappers

As far as peak popularity based strictly off rap we haven’t seen what Drake is doing before

Jay z music career will always Be up there off the sheer longevity but he didn’t even reach the highs that Drake has
Jay-z sold more records and broke more records than drake ever has
 
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