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Drake Completes Trilogy Of Diss Tracks With "Summer Sixteen"

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Drake Completes Trilogy Of Diss Tracks With "Summer Sixteen"
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Aubrey "Drake" Graham refuses to let up on Meek Mill. At this point, I just feel bad for Meek. The rap beef that once existed between the two rappers was unanimously declared over when Drake decided dropped "Charged Up" and "Back to Back" in 2015.

But for Drake, who is without a doubt the greatest rapper alive, it's only over when he decides to stop, because he's "looking for revenge" this summer.

Yesterday, Drake dropped another diss track, titled "Summer Sixteen," where he re-affirms his position in rap as its savior all while throwing shade at Kanye West, Chris Brown, and most importantly, Meek Mill. The Canadian rapper goes on to describe his ascension to rap godhood as he singlehandedly put Toronto on the map in his early 20s and how he is above the game itself at this point. At the end of record, Drake also gets a shoutout from the walking meme himself, DJ Khaled, as he shouts "They don't want us to have a bigger pool than Kanye!" (referencing a line earlier in the song where Drake says that he now "has got a bigger pool than Kanye.")

Drake is riding a wave of success that has never been seen before in this genre of music, and I'm convinced at this point that he could release a track with nothing but xylophone sounds and people would flock to buy it. He just has that kind of pull at the moment. Unlike most rappers, he hasn't had any slumps or periods where his popularity diminished heavily, yet he is rationing out content infrequently while his fans await each new track. Because of this model for distribution of his music, the demand for his music has skyrocketed over the past three years. "Summer Sixteen" is yet another example of how Drake markets his musical content perfectly and builds massive amounts of anticipation and hype for his upcoming albums. In this sense, he is the best rapper to ever market his own personal brand as well as his music.

With "Summer Sixteen" having only been released yesterday, heaps of success are most likely to follow in the coming week as the content becomes more readily available than just on iTunes. With another potential smash hit poised to only further his place in the history books, I and everyone else should get very excited for what musical masterpiece Drake is going to bless us with in the Summer of 2016.


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