Her Loss, Hit Album or Hit Trend?

Drake’s new collaboration album with 21 Savage has struck the world by storm, climbing up the charts and taking Taylor Swift’s crown as the number one album of the year. The album consists of 16 songs and is 60 minutes and 33 seconds long. The “Her Loss” album is a trip between the two artists flowing together with their diverse styles of rapping, taking the same topic and rapping it from their perspective. 

Drake and 21 doing an entire album together was a total surprise, yet expected as Drake’s song with 21 Savage “Knife Talk” rose up the charts and became a three time platinum record and the number one song on Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy” album. It was a go figure that these two talented artists would collaborate again.

 While the album is a sensation across all boards, some controversy has struck up between Drake and the up and coming artist, Megan Thee Stallion. In Drake’s song, “Circo Loco” his verse indirectly includes Megan Thee Stallion saying, “This b**** lie ‘bout getting shots, but she still a stallion.” This line immediately took to Twitter, and Drake was met with some backlash, even having Megan respond back with a few tweets asking for rappers to stop using her shooting for clout. 

While this controversy was taken seriously on Twitter, the booming social media platform, TikTok, has turned this controversy into a lighthearted joke. Additionally, the app turned some of the verses in his songs into viral trends. 

Drake’s verse in “Rich Flex” has become a viral trend. The verses, “And 21 can you do somethin’ for me? Can you talk to the opps necks for me? 21, do your thing, 21, do your thing” has TikTokers dancing to this verse in a sensual, but funny way, acting like Drake to get 21’s attention. Additionally, TikTokers made trends to Drake’s song “Broke Boys,” stating they can’t mess with broke boys. 

With these verses making their way to TikTok, thousands of viral videos have emerged and some TikTokers have racked up millions of likes from the songs “Rich Flex” and “Broke Boys.” Drake’s top songs have turned into viral trends, but is the album as good as the trends are making it out to be?

Some avid 2000s Drizzy fans would say that his new albums do not hit as hard as his old music. The album “Her Loss” has some iconic verses and is a pop sensation, but “Rich Flex” does not compete with Drake’s quadruple platinum classic “Headlines,” an all-time classic of any Drake listener. 

Of course, music trends have changed and artists tend to detach from their old ways of producing music, and some of the new styles that artists try do not always adhere to their audiences. While Drake still makes chart-topping songs, some of his new music does not exactly have the same effect as the old Drake did. 

Drake is still one of the most top selling artists and one of the best rappers in the game, but whether his new music still has the same hard-hitting flows as compared to his old albums is the toughest question to answer.