Hip-Hop facts and Rap facts.
We all know of the famous TDE Studio Rules that has been circulating. Turns out those were written by Kendrick Lamar, during an interview on The Cruz show on Power 106, Kendrick Lamar admitted to writing the studio rules.
“Who wrote the TDE studio rules?”
“I wrote those” Kendrick Lamar replied.
“We all thought Q wrote em.”
“No but if you look at it everything is written for Q”
You can watch the interview for yourself above.
Read: The 5 TDE studio rules
Whenever Drake and 21 Savage hit a song together, most could agree the outcome was phenomenal. With songs like ‘Knife Talk‘, ‘Sneakin‘ and ‘Jimmy Cooks‘, the duo always seemed to have great chemistry on a track.
Now the famous duo has dropped a 16 song collab album titled, Her Loss. The album dropped on November 4th, 2022 and is set to sell 390k units first week and be No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, including 425-450 million on-demand streams.
Here is 5 facts about the album.
Even before Drake and 21 Savage’s collaborative album was released, the cover art for Her Loss had fans intrigued, and it was successfully proposed by none other than the “Poland” rapper, Lil Yachty.
Following the release of Her Loss, Yachty revealed in his Instagram post that he chose the cover while also stating the reason behind his decision.
The rapper called Qui Yasuka’s picture “so raw, so authentic, not fabricated” while giving a shout-out to the model. The model, who also goes by the social media name “Suki Baby,” is also an adult dancer in Texas.
Yachty also helped write and or produce the tracks, “Major Distrubution”, “BackOutsideBoyz”(Yachty also added Ad-libs to this track), “Privileged Rappers,” “Pussy & Millions” and “Jumbotron Shit Poppin.”
Drake recently took to Instagram to show love to his fellow rapper and friend for heavily contributing to his album.
Both Wheezy and Tay Keith helped produce “Broke Boys” and Tay Keith helped produce the famous Daft Punk sampled “Circo Loco”.
Metro Boomin solely produced the song ‘More M’s’. Leading many to speculate that it teases Metro’s highly anticipated new blockbuster album Heroes & Villains, dropping in December 2022.
In a tweet by @HipHopNumbers it is claimed that Drake had 66% of the lyrics on the album compared to 21 savage much lower 26%.
In comparison, Future had almost double the airtime of Drake on their collab project, ‘What a Time To Be Alive‘.
The album is full of disses , as some of them are more straight forward than others, 21 Savage has gone on record in an interview with Akademics, saying he encouraged Drake to drop the disses on the album. Stating, “I told him to talk his sh*t, whatever he stand on I stand on”.
The dis lines include shots at Meg the Stallion, Serena William’s husband, DRAM, Pusha-T, Kanye West, Ice Spice, and more.
In a YouTube video by Pearl Fountain, they explain most of the disses (whether they were subliminal or not).
During a conversation with 21 on Drake’s SiriusXM radio show, Table for One, Drake states “I’m excited for the tour, and just another opportunity for me to be with my brother and, just, I mean shit our set that night is going to be dangerous.” 21 seemed to agree.
DailyRapFacts will be sure to update fans on any upcoming Drake or 21 savage concert dates.
Although Her Loss came with its fair share of controversy, great collaboration albums like this from two of the top rappers in the game is very rare. The album also did its job of getting Drake and 21 the attention and streams they wanted.
Her Loss.
Canadian singer The Weeknd reportedly earned the highest gross from a single show by a black artist during one of his stops on After Hours Till Dawn Tour. According to Twitter account Touring Data, the multi-award-winning artist made $11.132 million from 49,324 tickets sold at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, September 2.
Weeknd, along with San Benito, are said to be “the only artists in the 21st century to earn $10 million from a single show.”
After Hours Till Dawn Tour marks the acclaimed artist’s seventh concert trek, and supports his last two albums, 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM. With support from Kaytranada, Snoh Aalegra and Mike Dean, Weeknd began the 21-show tour on July 14 and will stop on November 27. Tour Data adds that The Weeknd has made $97 million from 616k tickets sold on 13 out of the 21 tour dates.
Atlanta superstar Lil Baby has simultaneously charted 25 songs on Billboard Hot 100 this week, with 23 of them coming from his new album, It’s Only Me. According to Billboard, Baby is the third and youngest artist to achieve the milestone in the 64 years of Hot 100 history.
The rapper follows Drake and Taylor Swift who charted 27 songs on July 14, 2018, and 26 songs on November 27, 2021 respectively.
The highest charting song from Baby’s album is “California Breeze,” which debuts at #4, followed by “Forever” and “Real Spill” at #8 and #10 respectively. He has a total of 10 songs in the Top 40.
It’s Only Me is now sitting at #1 on Billboard 200 after it moved 213k units in the first week. It’s his third No. 1 album in his career.
In the Fall of 2015, two of the biggest rap artists in the world, Drake & Future, released an 11 song mixtape executively produced by Metro Boomin and long time Drake producer, 40.
Metro produced or co-produced eight of its 11 songs. Additional producers include Southside, Allen Ritter, Boi-1da, DJ Esco, Frank Dukes, and others.
It was released on the iTunes Store and Apple Music, and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and sold 334,000 copies in its first week.
With such a monumental album, naturally come a five facts article by DailyRapFacts. Enjoy!
5 – Drake & Future recorded ‘What A Time To Be Alive’ in Atlanta in 6 days.
What a Time to Be Alive was allegedly born out of an impromptu, six-day recording session between the duo in Future’s hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.
Drake told Rolling Stone, “It’s a little soundtrack for people that need it right now. I went to Atlanta for six days with the hopes of doing some songs with Future, and when you get around Future, it’s like a vortex, that guy can outwork anybody right now. It’s tough to see someone do four, five songs in one night and not try to match it.”
4 – ‘Digital Dash’ was the first song they made for the project and ‘Jumpman’ was the last song the duo created for the project.
‘Digital Dash’ was presented as a finished piece to Drake prior to him getting on the song.
‘Jumpman’ would be the highest selling and most popular song from the album. The song was eventually certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for combined sales and streaming units of over four millions units.
In an interview with Fader, What a Time to be Alive executive producer Metro Boomin recalled one of the song’s sessions. “I remember, it was like six in the morning, I had been up in the studio all night mixing beats. And Drake come in in the middle of the night to f–k with ‘Jumpman. Drake was playing the new verse,” he added. “And I heard ‘Jumpman, jumpman. Metro Boomin on production, wow.’ and I knew it was going to be a hit.”
3. After a commercial featuring Taylor Swift rapping to ‘Jumpman’ while running on a treadmill, downloads of the song increased by 431%.
Apple released a commercial for Apple Music featuring Taylor Swift rapping along to the song and accidentally falling face first on the treadmill, which ultimately became very popular and was dubbed as ‘TAYLOR vs TREADMILL’. Following the premiere of the commercial, downloads of the song increased by 431%. According to Swift, the storyline was based on true events.
3- WATTBA marked the second project for both artists to chart at number one on the Billboard 200 in 2015.
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2- Future gets almost double the airtime of Drake on the album.
Future having the majority of the bars and time on the album led many to understand the true time that went into the album. Doing it in 6 days in Futures hometown, Atlanta, with the majority of Future’s crew and producers its no wonder it sounds like a Future album with Drake added in.
1 -There were rumors of a sequel to the album dropping late 2018 early 2019.
In an Instagram story posted back in April 2019, Drake can be seen throwing up the deuces, saying “What’s that? We gotta cook that up, that two.” Future then hints at the fact that the album is already done, “It’s already cooked.”
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Songs such as ‘WAIT FOR U’, ‘Life is Good’, ‘Big Mood’ & ‘Desires’ were rumored to be on the album.
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At 52, Jay Z delivered a sublime near 4-minute verse on DJ Khaled’s album title song, “God Did.” According to Hov’s long-time engineer Young Guru, the New York legend laid down the verse in just one take.
“People think I’m still not amazed when he walk in and do these verses,” Guru said in a discussion with Genius’ Rob Markman and GQ’s Frazier Tharpe. “And this one was different because normally, we’ll sit down, we’ll do a song, three verses, two verses or whatever, and he’ll have a verse and then we’ll figure out what’s next.
“No, he walked in and this was completely, he’s spitting the verse to me. One take. He’s literally asking me, ‘Guru, put the beat on.’ I’m like, ‘Khaled didn’t send me the beat, you didn’t send me the beat. Send me the beat.’ So then he sends me the joint and I started trying to loop it, and he was just like, ‘No, no, no, hit Khaled and get the whole instrumental,’ so he could spit the whole verse.”
He added, “I didn’t know he had almost four minutes and how many bars or whatever ready, so I’m just in amazement of watching him do this again at 52 years old. It’s like, I never stop being amazed. That’s why I tweeted ’cause it’s just like, ‘Yo, I don’t really wanna have a conversation after this.’”
Before Baby Keem was famously known as a rapper, producer, and Kendrick Lamar’s cousin, he used to be a gamer and record himself playing Minecraft and Fifa on his old YouTube Channel from 2014 ‘HykeezyHD’. Around the age of 14/15 (circa 2014), Baby Keem would stream on Twitch, YouTube, and he would be on forums under the usernames HykeeMC and Hykeezy/HykeezyHD.
Baby Keem’s YouTube isn’t up anymore but here is an old screenshot from Wayback machine of his YouTube.
There is also an old screenshot of Baby Keem on Tom’s Hardware forum asking for help on computer hardware.
Fans have found his old Twitch from 6+ years ago
As a kid and during his youth, Eminem would read the dictionary to expand his vocabulary, he dropped out of school during the 9th grade before pursuing his rap career. He would read a normal dictionary given to him by his mother to expand his vocabulary.
During a 60-minutes interview with Anderson Cooper, Eminem revealed he used to always be good at English and he confirmed he read the dictionary. “I heard that you used to read the dictionary,” Anderson Cooper asked, Eminem would reply saying “I wanna be able to have all these words at my disposal, in my vocabulary, at all times, whenever I need to pull them out, somewhere they’ll be stored and locked away”.
In his 2013 single ‘Rap God’, Eminem rapped 9.6 syllables-per-second. In his third verse ‘Godzilla’, Eminem rapped 229 words in 30 seconds.
Eminem coined the term “Stan” which was even added to the Oxford American Dictionary in 2017.
We created a Rap Dictionary (RapDictionary.com) with terms used in Hip-Hop/Rap music which you can buy here or on Amazon Prime.
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