Top 5 most streamed rap songs in a single day in Spotify history:
▫️ 13.2M — Make Them Cry
▫️ 13.1M — Not Like Us
▫️ 12.4M — Girls Want Girls
▫️ 11.7M — Champagne Poetry
▫️ 11.6M — Fair Trade
Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" remains the most streamed rap song in a single day on US Spotify history despite recent releases.
It's also the fastest rap song to sell 10 Million units in the US this decade
Drake addresses Kendrick Lamar on "1 AM in Albany":
"To be the number one, you gotta lead the way, and to hold something over my head forever, you’re still a couple feet away"
"Plot twist, the owl never sees the cage, the owl only wakes up to seize the day"
"Talkin' bout hiding the Bible, maybe y'all should read a page, iced out crosses on they necks thinking Jesus saves, well even if he does, n****, either way, the blasphemy you talk let me know that your amazing grace gon' be delayed"
"You n****s should be ashamed, the fact you had to bring those talks to get some decent plays, goodness graic'"
"God wanna wipe that lil smug look right off ya f*cking face, all you really did was cap like uppercase, dodged the truth, but still managed to finally get a hit that let you run a base, n****s saw you out at first, you need 'em, so you out at home now, just like a double play”
Streamer Tylil confronted Tony Brothers after the game and pressed him about the foul calls 😭
“What the f*ck is going on Tony? LeBron is 41… National Bron Association, if LeBron gets touched or breathed on it’s a FOUL!”
@NBA__Courtside 😭😂😂😂😂 The same guy claiming he knows “what’s best for the lakers” was Fired for having one of the worst records in NBA history and Lakers history 😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Byron Scott says no matter how LeBron James did this year, Lakers need to move on if they want to be a championship team:
“You getting paid 50 million. You’re 41, 42, 43 years old, right? You got a three-headed monster like you’re talking about. The Lakers if you want to move on and be a championship team for the next five, six, seven years, you got to build around Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves. You can’t do that if he’s still here. He’s 50 million. That comes off the cap. You can go get two really good basketball players. And young basketball players that can come in there and help.”
(Via Byron Scott’s Fast Break)
DJ Whoo Kid reflects on the Drake & Kendrick Lamar beef, saying Kendrick had his moment but hip-hop has been suffering commercially without Drake:
"Kendrick had his moment. You know, 6 months, he's the man. Super Bowl, he's the man. But the thing about Drake, he uses patience as a way of, like, getting back. And, as you can see, where has hip-hop been? There's no Billboard charts, there's nothing."
"I'm not an expert in this, but I know when he's here, we're on the charts."
(Via Diverse Mentality)
Finesse2tymes finds out he’s in a 360 deal with Mob Ties and Atlantic Records after putting his contract into ChatGPT.
"Somebody please help me buy out of this situation before I crash out and do something that gets me a life sentence."
Akademiks calls JAY-Z the “Israel of hip-hop” while arguing that JAY-Z hasn’t immortalized himself in culture the same way Michael Jordan has:
"I told you before it got announced, they're gonna make a big spectacle... this is the year you're gonna hear all types of things, they're just gonna give JAY-Z awards just to give him awards."
"This idea of him being a GOAT, I don't think younger folks look at him like that."
"JAY-Z isn't the standard that we compare musicians to."