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Grandmaster Flash Says Drake Has the ‘Prince Formula’ to Rap, Calls Him a ‘Consummate Genius’
The love across Hip-Hop is continues beyond the GRAMMYs celebration. Standing on the red carpet of the GRAMMYs, Grandmaster Flash spoke with Billboard and showed love to the generations of Hip-Hop who followed him.
When Flash hit Drake‘s name, he spoke glowingly of the HER LOSS rapper and even compared him to Prince.
“He is probably the only rapper, and I want to speak on his talent because he’s a great rapper, but he’s the only one, in my opinion, that’s daring enough to rap on a trap beat, to rap on a disco beat, to rap on ballad beat,” Grandmaster Flash said. “I would call it like a Prince formula. When Prince makes records, it does not sound like his last record. Drake is daring enough to rap on all different types of beats. I think he’s a consummate genius.”
You can hear it straight from Flash here.
Drake wasn’t present at the GRAMMYs but still got a win for his work on Future’s “Wait for U.” He will be at the Super Bowl performing, you can learn more about that here.
Meanwhile, Drake is letting Spotify know he has the streaming platform on his back. This week, The Boy was the first artist in music history to surpass 75 billion streams on Spotify across all credits.
Seeing the distinction, Drake provided a suggestion to how to keep the future of music going strong.
“We should get bonuses like athletes to motivate the future artists to be consistent and competitive,” Drake wrote. “[S]o feel free to send me a Lebron sized cheque. I have enough dinner plates.”
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Drake Becomes First Artist To Hit 75 Billion Streams on Spotify, Suggests Artists Receive Streaming Bonuses
Drake is letting Spotify know that he has the streaming platform on his back. This week, The Boy was the first artist in music history to surpass 75 billion streams on Spotify across all credits.
Seeing the distinction, Drake provided a suggestion to how to keep the future of music going strong.
“We should get bonuses like athletes to motivate the future artists to be consistent and competitive,” Drake wrote. “[S]o feel free to send me a Lebron sized cheque. I have enough dinner plates.”
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Pharrell Says He Wants To Work With De La Soul
Pharrell says that he’d “do anything” to work with the legendary rap group, De La Soul. The comments, which Pharrell made during an interview with The Guardian, come as De La Soul’s catalog is finally coming to streaming services.
The topic of working with De La Soul came up when the outlet asked Pharrell to name an album, past or present, that everybody needs to hear.
“All of De La Soul’s stuff is being re-released,” Pharrell said, before naming 3 Feet High and Rising and De La Soul Is Dead. “Even when they were going through all their stuff, Damon [Albarn] from Blur put them on the Gorillaz albums, because he gets it. He knows those guys are responsible for making so many of us misfits feel like we actually fit.”
“The De La tribe were the forefathers and founders of the way we see things,” he continued. “I was nearly 16 when 3 Feet High and Rising came out. It was a total gamechanger. It changed my life, period. Would I like to work with them? I would do anything for them, they know that. If they don’t, they should.”
The band announced earlier this month that their music would be hitting DSPs on March 3, 2023.
“We can’t believe this day is finally here,” the band said in a statement. “And we are excited to be able to share our music with fans, old and new”.
Pharrell also stated that he wants to get in the studio with Playboi Carti. He says that a collaboration between the two is “overdue.”
“It’s always based on a vibe,” he said of how he decides on his collaborative efforts. “I like Playboi Carti. I think we’re overdue.”
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Music Streaming Set A New Record By Crossing The Trillion-Play Threshold In 2022, With R&B And Hip-Hop At The Helm
Musicians and industry professionals have a well-documented obsession with chart placement. However, now in the dawn of streaming, there’s a growing pressure to deliver in other analytical ways, including streaming numbers. With physical albums sales continuing to fall, artists like Billie Eilish, Drake, and Ed Sheeran have all dominated across streaming platforms.
Although, traditional music medium such as vinyls seeing a huge spike in popularity, with artist like Taylor Swift and Adele (much to the displeasure of independent artists) including it in their album rollouts, streaming remains in the top spot of music activity. In fact, according to Luminate, the entertainment and data insight company behind Billboard‘s chart tracking, “on-demand song streams (audio and video combined) increased 12.2% to 1.268 trillion,” marking “the first time that yearly U.S. on-demand audio streams surpassed 1 trillion.”
Overall U.S. on-demand song streams (audio and video combined) increased 12.2% to 1.268 trillion, according to @luminate_data‘s 2022 year-end report.
This is the first time that yearly U.S. on-demand audio streams surpassed 1 trillion.
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) January 11, 2023
The report revealed that “29% of all on-demand audio streams in the U.S. in 2022 were R&B/hip-hop songs.” No further information was provided for what role other genres play in this milestone.
29% of all on-demand audio streams in the U.S. in 2022 were R&B/hip-hop songs.
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) January 11, 2023
Digital streaming platforms have like Apple Music and Spotify have continued to introduced new features to increase users’ app usage. Last year, Apple Music introduced Apple Music Sing, which gives subscribers an elevated experience with their favorite songs through enhanced karaoke abilities. While, Spotify expanded their Spotify Wrapped data points to include mood breakdowns and personality points of users most popular songs.