Whilst VIEWS gave us some huge club hits, as is Drake’s strength, its length left many feeling it was bloated.
Meek and Drake took shots at each other over beats, just like the good old days, but Drake firmly won the battle – he released Back To Back before Meek even had time to come up for air. VIEWS followed the critically acclaimed What a Time to Be Alive project with Future, and beef with Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill. Originally listed as Views From the 6, it was shortened to VIEWS, with plenty of anticipation around it. VIEWS was released back in 2016 as an ode to Graham’s hometown of Toronto. Every possible Drake fan could get what they wanted from the album but it wasn’t enough – when compared to his other releases, Scorpion tallied up a Metacritic score of just 68. “I wasn’t hiding my kid from the world, I was hiding the world from my kid,” Drake muses. Drake created a full-blown rap album alongside a softer, more typically Drake record and that alone has split opinion.įollowing the pretty awkward beef with Pusha T – on the song The Life of Adidon, Pusha openly referenced that Drake had a child that no one knew about – Drake confirmed he had a son on track Emotionless. He teased that Scorpion was going to be a double album, making it Drizzy’s longest recording to date, clocking in at 90 minutes and 25 songs long. With latest offering Scorpion released at the end of June, breaking streaming records, we looked at his releases over the years and how this one fares against the rest!īefore its release on June 29, there was plenty of speculation around the album Drake was about to drop.
He’s become a global star in his own right, breaking countless records as he continues to rise. Aubrey Drake Graham, better known by the moniker Drake, has changed rap in less than a decade.