Drake and 21 Savage‘s Her Loss album has debuted in the top spot on this week’s Billboard 200 chart thanks to some hefty sales figures.
The pair released their first collaborative project last Friday (November 4) to a fanfare of both praise and controversy. While many fans expressed how much they loved the album, it was marred by mild controversy relating to some of Drizzy’s lyrics.
According to HITS Daily Double, Her Loss bagged the top spot on the album chart with 411,000 equivalent units sold in its opening week.
Drake and 21’s joint LP reportedly produced one of the biggest streaming weeks ever generating around 500 million. It’s Drake’s second time this year topping the Billboard 200, following his seventh studio album, Honestly, Nevermind, which arrived in June.
Drake had a lot to get off his chest on Her Loss, from subliminally dissing DRAM over their 2015 song spat to calling Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian a “groupie”and seemingly shading “Munch” sensation Ice Spice.
Drizzy even threatened to reignite his fued with Kanye West by suggesting their 2021 reconciliation was nothing more than a favor to Rap-A-Lot Records CEO J. Prince.
However, one of the biggest talking points of the album was when Drake appeared to insinuate that Megan Thee Stallion lied about Tory Lanez shooting her. “This bitch lie about getting shots, but she still she a stallion/ She don’t even get the joke, but she still smiling,” he raps on “Circo Loco.”
Megan fired off several tweets in response to Drake’s lyrics, slamming him and other rappers for using her trauma fuel for jokes and clout.
However, according to Lil Yachty the lyrics weren’t about Megan. Instead, he said they were aimed at women who get butt shots and implants.
“I’mma clear this line up cuz I know Drake’s not gonna do it,” Lil Yachty said during an IG Live. “Had nothing to do with Megan. It’s just about women lying about their butt being real when it’s not. And like “stallion” as in ‘she’s still fine.’ Like a stallion! That was it.”
The Houston Hottie received an outpouring of support from over a dozen public figures in response to the social media chatter sparked by the comments Drizzy allegedly made about her.
On Friday (November 11), the Southern Black Girls & Women’s Consortium released an open letter signed by men and women including “me too” International founder Tarana Burke, Tamika D. Mallory of Until Freedom, political pundit Angela Rye, journalist Mark Lamont Hill, Texas congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and congresswoman Maxine Waters.
According to 21 Savage, he was partly responsible for Drake’s barrage of disses on Her Loss.
Speaking on DJ Akademiks’ Off the Record podcast, he explained how he encouraged Drizzy to let the proverbial chopper fly.
“When he sent me the songs, I’m pointing out what I heard and I tell him like, ‘Yeah, n-gga. Talk that shit,'” 21 said. “You know I’m gassing him. I’m behind him. Whatever he standing on, I’m standing on it, too. So say what you feel, n-gga, ’cause I’m riding.”
Haters said drake couldn’t get another no.1 album but he did anyway! He and 21 savage are truly running the music industry right now
That’s only cuz there’s more of you LBGTQ Community groupies, cucks, simps, overly emotional females, and bitch ass n***** than real out there who buy or stream albums repeatedly over and over again nonstop like addicts injecting heroin. Congratulations on being an industry tool, continue to throw your money away to them. Hope you’re proud of yourself.
Drake the greatest gay artist of all time. That’s why I obsess over him. We could shared dildos together. 21 savage is just a third wheel.
I’m Drake’s accountant,butler, housekeeper, maid,gardener, nanny, cook , massage therapy, and proctologist.
I’m a hyper omnisexual interdimensional transgender ultra megalodon lesbian named Greg.
the only genre to call everyone homosexual… rap.
You forgot Pop
Taylor Swift literally outsold both of them herself… They sure are running the music industry lol
Says the guy who keeps wasting his money on crap like eminem or nas albums
She and her friends and family placed at least a million orders of the cds. Drake never resorted to down low shit like that
Why so much Drake hate? Lol it’s comical to me at this point. I love when he get in his bag and just fire off shots to everyone. He even gave Push some bars. This is great for rap!
because he doesnt hold guns on ig live. and also he talks about girls, eww
Why so much Drake hate? Lol it’s comical to me at this point. I love when he get in his bag and just fire off shots to everyone. He even gave Push some bars. This is great for rap!
Those weren’t shots you were hearing… just a car backfiring and also those weren’t bars..those were Skittles LMAO!!!!
I’m pretty sure it’s not a bag. It’s a purse in Drake’s case.
He doesn’t write his own rhymes and tries to act hard when he clearly isn’t. He deserves the hate. If he didn’t do these two things I wouldn’t say a word.
It’s already proven he writes.
I thought 21 grew up in Nottingham what’s he riding a horse?
He grew up in the streets at atlanta
How drake running the industry they ain’t putting up Taylor swift numbers and them facts
He doesn’t have his friends and family buy hundreds of thousands of cds either. The numbers came purely from fans