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After enduring one of the most relentless public battles in hip hop history, many long time Drake critics both in and outside the industry celebrated what they called the “elimination of drake”.
..But in 2025 the unthinkable happened. Without releasing a studio album, Drake became the most streamed rapper of the year and achieved the biggest annual streams of his entire music career. And even more strangely, he took this crown just months before the 20th anniversary of his debut mixtape.
At this stage, it literally feels that Drake could withstand anything that the game throws at him and still remain in pole position. In essence, making him the cockroach of the genre in how he keeps surviving the kind of credibility destroying moments that would end most careers. But how did we get here?
#Drake #HipHopMadness
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