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Sampha Covers Drake’s “Controlla” [WATCH]

During an appearance on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, OVO affiliate, Sampha covered Drake’s “Controlla” with killer vocals while simultaneously playing the piano. Sampha collaborated with Drizzy on “The Motion” off 2013’s ‘Nothing Was the Same’ and appeared on ‘4422’ off The 6 God’s ‘More Life.’

Watch Sampha’s “Controlla” cover below via YouTube.

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Drake Scores Seventh Consecutive No. 1 Album & Breaks Record For Most Hot 100 Hits For Solo Artists [PEEP]

UPDATE: Drizzy continues to break records with his ‘More Life’ album. Every song on the album is currently charting on the Billboard Hot 100 and he has now broken the Billboard record for most Hot 100 hits among solo artists with 154.

With the new record he passes his YMCMB boss, Lil’ Wayne, who has 135. Many people have criticized Drake for having over 20-songs on the album, but the move has proved to be a smart one with all 22-songs charting. In doing so he’s beat his own record for ‘Views’ and The Weeknd’s ‘Starboy’ with the most simultaneously charted Hot 100 songs from one single project.

With “Passionfruit” at No. 8 and “Portland” at No. 9, Drizzy follows Ed Sheeran to simultaneously have two songs on the Top 10.

Below is a list of artists with the most Hot 100 singles.

207, Glee Cast
154, Drake
135, Lil Wayne
108, Elvis Presley
91, James Brown
87, Jay Z
82, Chris Brown
81, Kanye West
77, Nicki Minaj
75, Ray Charles

When Drake said “More Life, more everything,” he really meant it. More success, “more chune for your headtop,” and of course more No. 1s.

With the early projections it should come as no surprise that Drizzy has earned his seventh consecutive No. 1 album with ‘More Life’ topping the Billboard 200 chart. In doing so he tied with Eminem and Kanye West for second most No. 1s amongst hip-hop artists. Jay-Z still maintains the throne with 13, so Drake still has work to do, if he ever wants to dethrone his counterpart.

‘More Life’ scored dominating numbers of over 500,000 equivalent album units, making it the biggest opening and dethroning his ‘Views’ album. Competing against himself, Drake broke records for streaming equivalent units with 257,000 through 384.8 million streams of individual tracks. The “playlist” broke Ed Sheeran’s traditional album sales units with over 200,000 broke both Spotify and Apple Music streaming records.

Through all the success physical copies of more life haven’t even been released yet. They will hit store shelfs on March 31st.

Check out the Billboard 200 Top 10 albums below.

BILLBOARD 200 TOP 10

1. Drake – ‘More Life’ – 505,000
2. Ed Sheeran – ‘÷’ – 119,000
3. Rick Ross – ‘Rather You Than Me’ – 106,000
4. Various – ‘Beauty and the Beast Soundtrack’ – 99,000
5. Depeche Mode – ‘Spirit’ – 64,000
6. Bruno Mars – ‘24K Magic’ — 51,000
7. Various – ‘Moana Soundtrack’ – 50,000
8. Future – ‘Future’ – 40,000
9. The Weeknd – ‘Starboy’ – 39,000
10. Migos – ‘Culture’ – 37,000

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Justin Credible’s “Leaks of the Week” W/ ‘More Life’ Playlist Review [WATCH]

Justin Credible gets to it every week. With new music coming, Creddy always tells you what’s atop his list and what you should be listening to. This week with ‘More Life’ out, J reviewed Drizzy’s project and shared his favorite tracks off the “playlist,” project, album, or whatever you wanna call it. Watch below and look out for a new “Leaks of the Week” every week! Also catch Creddy and Milk on the Power 106 #LIFTOFF show from 7 p.m. to midnight every night!

Watch below.

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New Music: Drake – ‘More Life’ [STREAM]

On the 39th episode of his “OVOSOUNDRADIO” show on Beats1, Drake gives fans his highly-anticipated ‘More Life’ “playlist,” as promised.

To ring in the 22-track “playlist,” Drizzy dropped “Free Smoke,” which he has teased along his “Boy Meets World Tour” in Europe. On “Free Smoke” the 6 God confesses to “almost giving up on the music thing,” drunk texting J. Lo, who he samples on the album, and more.

‘More Life’ was first announced in October and was delayed several times as a result of the “BMW Tour” in Europe. It includes contributions from Kanye West, 2 Chainz, Travis Scott, Quavo, Giggs, Young Thug, PARTYNEXTDOOR, and more.

The project follows the ‘Views’ album, although it is considered as the “evolution of a mixtape.”

“It was getting tough to be like, ‘I’m dropping a mixtape but it’s for sale on iTunes.’ It was like, ‘Oh, that’s your album.’ I didn’t want people to say this is my next album,” he said in an interview on a previous OVOSOUNDRADIO episode. “Views was my album. This is something that, after Views, I was just inspired. I wanted to keep the music flowing.”

Stream ‘More Life’ in its entirety below via TIDAL.

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Drake Announces Release Date For ‘More Life’ [PEEP]

More Chune for your head top!

Drake has been busy on the road with his “Boy Meets World” European tour. The tour has undoubtedly caused more delay of his forthcoming project, ‘More Life’. After announcing it in October of last year, the so-called “playlist” has experienced several delays.

It was originally supposed to drop December of last year, then pushed back to January, and then rumors surfaced, that it would be dropping during March 4th’s episode of OVOSOUNDRADIO, which was eventually scraped all together.

The 6 God seems poised to drop it and yesterday during a stop in Germany, Drizzy announced he would be going to the hotel following the show to put the finishing touches on the project.

On an Instagram video posted by Drizzy, the project was given an official release date of March 18th. Watch the ‘More Life’ promotional video below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BRgjAbujvJJ/

I’ve speculated it’s taken this long, because the “playlist” will include over 25 songs.

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New Video: Drake – “Sneakin'” Feat. 21 Savage [WATCH]

Drake hosts 21 Savage at his Calabasas estate in the video for “Sneakin’,” off the 6 God’s upcoming ‘More Life’ project.

The Lo-Fi visuals show both rappers kicking it in the Hidden Hills mansion with OVO members and a flock of voluptous women, who show off their ASSets. Drake rocks a mink coat as he flosses his big OVO pendant, rings, and Rolls Royce Phantom.

In the grainy footage, you also see 21 Savage driving around in the red Ferrari Drizzy gifted him for his 24th birthday. Watch Below.

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Drake Drops 4 New Songs & Announces New Project [LISTEN]

On the eve of his 30th birthday, Drake hosted a very special episode of his Apple Beats 1 “OVO Sound Radio” show by announcing a new project titled ‘More Life’.

‘More Life’ isn’t being called an album or a mixtape by the rapper and is instead described as a “playlist,” containing all original music from him and maybe even other members of the OVO family. The 6 God dubbed it a playlist because he wants it to become a soundtrack “to your life.”

“I’m off like the mixtapes, you know, I wanna do a playlist, I wanna give you [wanna give you] a collection of songs that become a soundtrack to your life,” he said on the show. “[I’m] really excited you know, I had a great tour, I had a great summer and most people I guess would probably go take a break, but me I just wanna get right back to it.”

This new project will follow his record-breaking ‘VIEWS’ album that dropped in April and will be released sometime in December. The cover art shows a throwback picture of his pops, Mr. Dennis Graham, writing lyrics on a notepad.

The big announcement was followed by Drizzy dropping four new songs, which may or may not be on ‘More Life’. You can listen to those below.

“TWO BIRDS ONE STONE”

QUOTABARZ

“It’s only me but I’m seeing four shadows in the light / My demons visit me every night / To the most high I’m forever indebted / I know I gotta pay something, I know that day’s coming / I put it all in the music / Because if I don’t say it here then I won’t say nothing”

“Used to carry a lot of dead weight like a pallbearer / People too scared to tell the truth so it’s all dares / Counted us all there and we all square”

“My numbers out of this world / No wonder they got me feeling so alienated / You were the man on the moon / Now you just go through your phases / Life of the angry and famous / Rap like I know I’m the greatest / Then give you the tropical flavors / Still never been on hiatus / You stay xanned and perked up / So when reality set in you don’t gotta face it”

“WANNA KNOW” (REMIX) Feat. Santan Dave

QUOTABARZ

“I only link with the real ones, lord knows / On fo’, I love to see a fake nigga go broke / I don’t run to twitter with the things I know / I fall back to see how it unfolds”

“SNEAKIN'” Feat. 21 Savage

QUOTABARZ

“Shit ain’t been the same like before / I still love it but I used to love it more / Face time with my shawty on tour / And she texting purple hearts cause she know we at war”

“I dont need love I’m the goat / I just hit the beat and float / And I’m selling out arenas, but you putting on a show”

“FAKE LOVE”

QUOTABARZ

“Yeah, straight up to my face, tryna play it safe / Vibe switch like night and day, I can see it like right away / I came up, you changed up, I caught that whole play / Since then, things never been the same”

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