Stereogum exposes Drake's Views fake numbers
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Read that long ass shyt, his conclusion wasn't skewed numbers, just that Drake isn't fulfilling his popularity potential because he didn't get streamed by as many people on Spotify as he did on apple. That his audience is niche. But If 15 million people stream drake , that's a lot, or does he really think Drake would sell 15 million albums domestic in an earlier era.
Also said Apple was Indie.. The biggest music company in the world is indie brehs.
I would agree with his statements if these albums were stream only. But they also free to buy old school, CDs ,downloads etc. They aren't being denied to the public at all. I don't like drake so pains me to say the piece was kinda pointless.
Yeah the conclusion was ridiculous. Sounded like they were scared to go all the way and call out Apple for reporting fake numbers. Apple is obviously faking those stats. And Tidal too...
men lie, women lie
numbers lie too.
numbers lie too.
Basically what I took from the article was they were dry snitching
They implicated what was up but they knew better than to say it explicitly.
Kenny West
Veteran
Basically. We saw how streams were actually manipulated to manufacture hit songs with Fancy by Iggy Azelia. Isn't the same thing going on here and you have to wonder who would be the vested interest in cheating drake to the top when he was already going plat on every project without the help.
But whatever helps you sleep at night.
Pool_Shark
Can’t move with me in this digital space
Apple cut that check 
Originalgangsta317
Banned
Haters and house nikkas
If you hate on drake you a idiot bigot and a lame ass house nikka
Stay in the house you losers bro lol
Trying all types of shyt and wording to make yourselves and your puny lives feel better
You need a towel for all the drake dikksucking you doing bytch 
nikka really said you're an "idiot bigot" and a house nikka if you dont like drake
Originalgangsta317
Banned
nikka really said you're an "idiot bigot" and a house nikka if you dont like drake
I don't care if nikkas like or hate drake but he goin toooo far
1) One thing this fool forgot was that Drakes singles that have dominated Spotify were on Spotify 
2) The way Drake cheated was cause Hotline Bling the most played song on Spotify 2015, probably Tidal and Apple too. Then One Dance which is probably 2016 most played song, these songs were counted in the first week numbers.
3) How can Views only have done 600 million Spotify when One Dance alone has done more than that?
4) He's mixing up global numbers, American billboards, Global users and on.
5) Why isn't he mentioning other platforms as if Apple and Spotify are the only ones?
That long ass article and he couldn't even figure out what nikkas said prior to the album even being released. Drake is the most streamed artist of all times.
Why only Drake? Why not Taylor who is bigger, Future and Khaled?
nikkas eat anything anyone says as long as it fits their agenda, even if it's just some square summer intern at an internet blog.
2) The way Drake cheated was cause Hotline Bling the most played song on Spotify 2015, probably Tidal and Apple too. Then One Dance which is probably 2016 most played song, these songs were counted in the first week numbers.
3) How can Views only have done 600 million Spotify when One Dance alone has done more than that?
4) He's mixing up global numbers, American billboards, Global users and on.
5) Why isn't he mentioning other platforms as if Apple and Spotify are the only ones?
That long ass article and he couldn't even figure out what nikkas said prior to the album even being released. Drake is the most streamed artist of all times.
Why only Drake? Why not Taylor who is bigger, Future and Khaled?
nikkas eat anything anyone says as long as it fits their agenda, even if it's just some square summer intern at an internet blog.
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reTIreMEnt: THE ALBUM (01/22) ALL DSPs
THE BACK 2 BACK OF DRAKE DISSES 
HOOK:
I think ya time is up, and you should wait a minute...
Ya shyt be sounding sus, heard you been fakin wit it...
Boy I be lit like matches, yo bytch ain't committed...
U know dat p*ssy fire, so I stayed up in it...
They say I'm quiet now...Truthfully, I been hidin out...
Cuz I'm on bail, plus on the run, for living all the lyrics they lie about.
I ain't on the scene, I'm inside a house. Whippin white bytches, up in high amounts.
Now the plot thickens. Gettin hired's out. Stuck inside the cycle, on a wider route.
I think ya time is up, and you should wait a minute...
Ya shyt be sounding sus, heard you been fakin wit it...
Boy I be lit like matches, yo bytch ain't committed...
U know dat p*ssy fire, so I stayed up in it...
They say I'm quiet now...Truthfully, I been hidin out...
Cuz I'm on bail, plus on the run, for living all the lyrics they lie about.
I ain't on the scene, I'm inside a house. Whippin white bytches, up in high amounts.
Now the plot thickens. Gettin hired's out. Stuck inside the cycle, on a wider route.
VERSE ONE:
Not a straight and narrow, you a choir mouse. So what the fukk is YOU cryin bout?
Is takin fed chances by the ounce, the only way you puttin food inside ya mouth?
Duckin new indictments, gun inside the couch. Stayin up at night, hearin sirens out?
Nah, countin racks...sippin dirty, fukkin bad bytches, all your lifes about.
You a rap nikka...? Maaaan, look at these rap, nikkas...
Instathuggin...Snap trappin...Help em write it. They say too much and get theyself indicted.
Touchin work, for them cameras nikka? Gang, gang, witta hammer, nikka?
My advice, since you'ont give a fukk...Kill yaself & bring ya camera witcha...
My nikkas? Got a plan. Coppin grams, but ain't gotta 'Gram.
Drummin like Contra, for contraband. Scammin vics, like “it's not a scam.”
Your squad? Not a chance.Video shoot, takin shots at cams...
Twitter fingers turn to trigger fingers...But all I see is a lotta hands.
Gave my life away in G.P...4 years, that was EASY.
Sliced a nikka over Keefee; shyt got harder after they released me.
Never did a day up in no P.C., but nowadays, the game is so P.C.
See, the way these nikkas wildlin for the fame, might as well be suckin dikk for retweets.
Cold War...Stalin (Stylin) on em since, '04...Don't wanna hear these nikkas NO more,
I might shoot a rapper then go hit a lick, and do my OWN tour.
This rap shyt, like the Clone Wars...Bite ya style, like they OWN yours.
p*ssy nikkas...Make me laugh. A pimp who fall in love with known whores?
Gad, damn...These goofy nikkas really talkin down like...
They got the SOUND, sound, sound, but that don't sound right...
How you mislead em, and cheat em? nikka yeen even right...
All them songs that made you HOT, nikka yeen even WRITE!
HOOK
VERSE TWO:
I'm on fire now....Active warrants, lawyers hired now.
And I just had to drop 17, to get outta jail, I'ma ride this bytch, til the tires out.
Ask me why, and you can find it out...My paperwork here, deny ya doubt...
They said a nikka had dem CHOPPAS....But I don't know, what they lyin bout!
And lately...I stay on my "Donovan". Play outta pocket, but this game, I gotta win.
Facing a lot, but its saying a lot, when you don't say a lot; you just pay em to politic.
Prayin to God, I been slayin a thot again. Life is a bytch, but i'm staying monogamous.
Swallow my pride, tryna stay on some conscious shyt. Don't give a fukk bout a hater hypothesis.
NEVER...So fukk you, and fukk everybody you came wit.
If you ask me when I sober up, I'ma STILL tell you the same shyt.
Record labels...? NO SIR. My plug?...Speed Dial.
Won't settle for a slave deal. I'd rather quit rap, just to beat trial.
fukk a freestyle...fukk nikka...Copy that...These clowns...
Michael Jackson...Smooth Criminal. Everybody on lean now.
Everybody wanna sing now...Whatever happened to hip-hop?
Whatever happened to tagging or not doing fakkit shyt, when your shyt drop?
They fake Bloods, or they fake Crips. Fake booty on they fake bytch.
Fake rappers, wit a fake life, it ain't hating, if a nikka hate fake, shyt...
Fans know it, and don't say shyt. They wishy washy and complacent.
Translation: If you make hits, you can do whatever, but I ain't shiiiiiit? (NAH!)
Not a straight and narrow, you a choir mouse. So what the fukk is YOU cryin bout?
Is takin fed chances by the ounce, the only way you puttin food inside ya mouth?
Duckin new indictments, gun inside the couch. Stayin up at night, hearin sirens out?
Nah, countin racks...sippin dirty, fukkin bad bytches, all your lifes about.
You a rap nikka...? Maaaan, look at these rap, nikkas...
Instathuggin...Snap trappin...Help em write it. They say too much and get theyself indicted.
Touchin work, for them cameras nikka? Gang, gang, witta hammer, nikka?
My advice, since you'ont give a fukk...Kill yaself & bring ya camera witcha...
My nikkas? Got a plan. Coppin grams, but ain't gotta 'Gram.
Drummin like Contra, for contraband. Scammin vics, like “it's not a scam.”
Your squad? Not a chance.Video shoot, takin shots at cams...
Twitter fingers turn to trigger fingers...But all I see is a lotta hands.
Gave my life away in G.P...4 years, that was EASY.
Sliced a nikka over Keefee; shyt got harder after they released me.
Never did a day up in no P.C., but nowadays, the game is so P.C.
See, the way these nikkas wildlin for the fame, might as well be suckin dikk for retweets.
Cold War...Stalin (Stylin) on em since, '04...Don't wanna hear these nikkas NO more,
I might shoot a rapper then go hit a lick, and do my OWN tour.
This rap shyt, like the Clone Wars...Bite ya style, like they OWN yours.
p*ssy nikkas...Make me laugh. A pimp who fall in love with known whores?
Gad, damn...These goofy nikkas really talkin down like...
They got the SOUND, sound, sound, but that don't sound right...
How you mislead em, and cheat em? nikka yeen even right...
All them songs that made you HOT, nikka yeen even WRITE!
HOOK
VERSE TWO:
I'm on fire now....Active warrants, lawyers hired now.
And I just had to drop 17, to get outta jail, I'ma ride this bytch, til the tires out.
Ask me why, and you can find it out...My paperwork here, deny ya doubt...
They said a nikka had dem CHOPPAS....But I don't know, what they lyin bout!
And lately...I stay on my "Donovan". Play outta pocket, but this game, I gotta win.
Facing a lot, but its saying a lot, when you don't say a lot; you just pay em to politic.
Prayin to God, I been slayin a thot again. Life is a bytch, but i'm staying monogamous.
Swallow my pride, tryna stay on some conscious shyt. Don't give a fukk bout a hater hypothesis.
NEVER...So fukk you, and fukk everybody you came wit.
If you ask me when I sober up, I'ma STILL tell you the same shyt.
Record labels...? NO SIR. My plug?...Speed Dial.
Won't settle for a slave deal. I'd rather quit rap, just to beat trial.
fukk a freestyle...fukk nikka...Copy that...These clowns...
Michael Jackson...Smooth Criminal. Everybody on lean now.
Everybody wanna sing now...Whatever happened to hip-hop?
Whatever happened to tagging or not doing fakkit shyt, when your shyt drop?
They fake Bloods, or they fake Crips. Fake booty on they fake bytch.
Fake rappers, wit a fake life, it ain't hating, if a nikka hate fake, shyt...
Fans know it, and don't say shyt. They wishy washy and complacent.
Translation: If you make hits, you can do whatever, but I ain't shiiiiiit? (NAH!)