Drake

After a successful week for Drake's fourth studio album VIEWS, most would think that things couldn’t getting any better for the Canadian rapper. After outselling Beyoncé’s Lemonade in a single day, and, according to yesterday’s Billboard figures, VIEWS also beat the releases of Kanye West, Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar earning Drake the biggest album of this year so far and the biggest male album in over 3 years. Amongst such […]

Yesterday, Republic Records reported that Drake’s new album VIEWS sold a total of 1.2 million copies, including streaming numbers, in its first six days. Over a million of those sales were coming from the U.S. In addition, in that same time frame, VIEWS was streamed over 250 million times, with over 200 million of those coming from within the United States. Hits Daily Double is going a little further into […]

One night in mid-March, megastar rapper Drake and Toronto Raptors All-Stars DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry gathered at the team's practice facility to shoot the SLAM 198 cover. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how it went down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhZ91xL-zQ Shot by acclaimed photographer Atiba Jefferson, the cover features a dapper Drizzy in a suit and the young Raptors in their black-and-gold uniforms with the tagline “6 Gods.” @slamonline @demar_derozan @kyle_lowry7 @raptors […]

NBA All-Star Weekend kicked off in the freezing cold city of Toronto, with none other than Drake himself coaching Team Canada against Kevin Hart's Team USA in the Celebrity All-Star Game. Of course, the majority of people in attendance were rooting for Drizzy, and his home team pulled out the victory despite some late-game antics from Hart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPZpvRcrFVs Before the big game, we chopped it up with some players from […]