Drake and Metro Boomin’s differences can now be quantified as the numbers for 2023 are in, with each of them bagging a significant accolade — it’s now up to fans to decide which one matters more.
On Sunday (December 31), Chart Data reported that the Canadian superstar is “the #1 most streamed rapper on Spotify in 2023, with over 17.6 billion streams.” It is worth noting that Taylor Swift broke the record for the most number of streams in a single year on the platform, confirming Drizzy’s “Red Button” bar: “Taylor Swift the only n-gga that I ever rated.”
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As for full-length projects, Our Generation Music shared that Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains became “the MOST streamed rap album of 2023 with 3.3 Billion streams on Spotify,” making it “the only rap album to reach over 3B streams this year.”
With both artists generating monumental digits, it’s clear that they’re still running the game.
.@Drake was the #1 most streamed rapper on Spotify in 2023, with over 17.6 billion streams. pic.twitter.com/AHqXSSkb0x
— chart data (@chartdata) January 1, 2024
Last month, Metro Boomin set the record straight regarding his alleged beef with Drake. The superstar producer took to Twitter in late December and responded to a fan who brought up the tension between him and the 6 God.
“Are u and Drake seriously beefing or is it not that deep?” one social media asked the producer, to which he replied: “Not deep at all lmao.”
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The drama between the two began earlier in December, when Metro weighed in on a debate about the streaming figures of his Heroes & Villains versus Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss.
After an account reported that the Missouri native’s LP has amassed more streams in a single year (3.7 billion) than any other rap album since 2018 and is currently generating more than twice the amount of daily streams as Her Loss, he wrote in a since-deleted post: “Yet Her Loss keeps winning rap album of the year over H&V.”
He added: “Proof that award shows are just politics and not for me. Idc about awards honestly, the true award and REWARD is knowing that the music I spend so much time on brings joy to people’s everyday lives.”
Drake then appeared to fire back at Metro on his Instagram Stories by quoting the JAY-Z song “Heart of the City (Ain’t No Love),” sharing the bars: “Damn, little mans, I’m just tryin’ to do me/ If the record’s two mil, I’m just tryin’ to move three.”
Shortly thereafter, he also unfollowed Metro on Instagram.
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A little later, during a livestream on Stake, the “hotline Bing” hitmaker said: “To the rest of you — the non-believers, the underachievers, the tweet and deleters — you guys make me sick to my stomach, fam.”
The trap beatmaker, who many assumed was the target, seemingly responded on Twitter by posting the viral meme video featuring an argument between a group of Black people and racist white folks (played by Black actors) on a basketball court. In the clip, one of the “white” actors mockingly says to his Black opponent: “Whoa calm down Jamal, don’t pull out the 9.”
