Guest appearances on songs by the southern rap acts Blocboy JB, the Migos, and Lil Baby rounded out the top ten. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and stayed there collectively for months. He made everyone cry giving stacks of cash and misty-eyed hugs to families in need in the video for “God’s Plan.” Then “Nice for What” turned Lauryn Hill’s “Ex-Factor” into a bounce anthem and used the accompanying visuals to celebrate a baker’s dozen of talented black, white, and brown women in Hollywood. This year has been Drake’s most concerted - and for the most part, successful - push for unilateral love. Building a formidable profile is precarious falling back to square one’s a cinch. Actions and apprehensions affect the value of a person’s platform in real time, like stocks. And respect isn’t some tangible commodity you can grab up and hoard, like an art collector. He’s had to scratch and fight for the respect of the public. He needs that stuff because he doesn’t have street bona fides he can hang back from the comfort of a mansion and reminisce about for 20 years, like a lot of his elders do. He knew that Meek Mill didn’t have a plan past Twitter rage in 2015 the swift, brutal two-hit combo of “Charged Up” and “Back to Back” netted the Toronto rapper a king’s ransom in tough-guy cachet. That lands him steps ahead of the competition. He thinks things through to their logical conclusions before they get there. If you take him at his word, Drake is hip-hop’s James Bond: suave, rich, clever, vengeful, mercenary, and effective.
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