Drake has called 2020 “the hardest year in human history” because of the COVID pandemic, and this has left a number of people confused.
The comments were made in the new Amazon Prime Video documentary Untrapped, which follows the meteoric rise of Lil Baby.
In a part of the documentary that highlights the unfortunate timing of Lil Baby’s chart-topping second album, My Turn, Drizzy talks about how the 4PF rapper was unable to tour the record because the COVID pandemic shut everything down.
“The hardest year maybe in human history that we’ve ever been through,” Drizzy says in the doc. “Forget music, just as a people, like, the hardest time to ever connect with people, relate to people.”
Drizzy’s generalization ultimately met the wrath of the internet, with fans on Twitter calling to mind other debilitating times in human history, including the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and The Holocaust.
“Drake said the pandemic was the hardest year in human history,” wrote one fan. “Sir, our ancestors drowned themselves to avoid being taken as slaves.”
Another Twitter user wrote: “Drake said in human history and 35 lol sir that one pandemic year couldn’t have been worse than slavery or the holocaust. The privilege.”
You can see some other responses below:
Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby hit Amazon Prime on August 26. The film is produced by a combination of Quality Films, MGX Creative, and 4PF, and chronicles Lil Baby’s incredible rise through the ranks in Hip Hop all the way up to when he dropped his No. 1 album, My Turn, in 2020.
Drake had a substantial part in helping Lil Baby get his start. The 6 God notably hopped on Lil Baby’s 2018 track “Yes Indeed,” and has been a reliable collaborator with the Atlanta rhymer ever since. The pair most recently teamed up on DJ Khaled’s latest single “Staying Alive,” which appeared on his 13th studio album GOD DID.
Baby previously told Billboard that he and Drizzy have dozens of songs together, and during a recent visit to the famous Icebox Diamonds & Watches jewelry store in Atlanta said the Canadian rap star pushes him to rap harder.
“But with Drake, I be trying to think about it,” Lil Baby said. “And that’s what makes it harder for me cause, like, I’m thinking. When I don’t even think, I just rap. So then like, ’cause it’s Drake, I get kind of like, damn…So I gotta make sure. Now it’s kind of like, eh.
“But my next album, I’m writing it. Every song, I’m writing it. So it’s gonna be more detailed. Right now, I freestyle, so only the top of my brain comes out.”
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Meanwhile, a Drake and Gucci Mane joint mixtape was “close” to happening, according to DJ Drama.
The Gangsta Grillz honcho shed light on the rumored project during a recent appearance on Math Hoffa’s My Expert Opinion podcast, explaining he was responsible for connecting Guwop and Drizzy in the first place.
“We almost did a Gucci and Drake tape,” he said. “[Gucci] had just came home and I put them on the phone. They talked about doing a tape together.
“There’s like three records on the Cold War series that are, like, Gucci and Drake records that were for that project. The tape never happened, but it was close.”
The libs made the scamdemic hard. The only thing that was hard about the scamdemic was that people lost their jobs for bullshit. The lockdowns did nothing. The masks did nothing. Only the vaccine got it under control and now covid its the new flu. I neverr saw a reason to make the vaccine political. Anti-vaxers were just as stupid as the pro-mask crowd.
ye ok ppl are droping dead left right and center from unknown causes
Drake rofl
I must be old cause i had to google what rofl meant.
roflmao drake
*Drake fangirl has entered the chat*
People need to get a hobby.
1968 was pretty rough
Not if you lived in Florida like me. My cousins in NY were screwed. Couldn’t even go out and do enjoyable things. Basically, the state governments over reaction was what made things so hard. 2022 is harder than 2020. Cost of living has skyrocketed, life is worse.
2022bc was harder.
Hello old soul. Were there people telling white lies back then?
Of course there was. They’ve been telling white lies since atlantis. And I’ve been here fighting the good fight lifetime after lifetime.
More people died in 2020 than in literally any other year before it. So hes kind of right by accident – it might quantitatively been the worst year for the largest number of people. Not sure if hes actually analyzing it on that level, but its an interesting thought.
Just stfu
The stats were BS though. The flu magically “disappeared” for the first time in history. Aka, flu cases and deaths counted as covid. People who had strokes but also had covid, counted as covid death. It was and is very misleading. Those who got put on ventilators died, because they didn’t use then properly. The hospitals killed people. They gave them deadly drugs that don’t work (unlike ivermectin, which does work, used it first hand, ans works great for all colds n flus)
THERE’S A REASON THIS CLOWN DOESN’T DO INTERVIEWS. DUDE IS SHALLOW, DENSE, AND REPRESENTS NOTHING OUTSIDE OF FKK BOY CULTURE.
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