Yeah he was! It was i think the biggest indépendant song of all time or something like that.
Im sure if it had radio play and a media push where he wasnt black balled it wouldnt of fallen off as quick as it did!

Laugh Now Cry Later is nowhere near any of those songs, why are y’all so delusional about that song on here man

Man s/o Carti. Bro really ran this Year as a feature artist.

Yeah he did! I kinda get why he’s holding off on the album, he’s just building and building hype. Why let it stop when he can buy more time to craft something and keep the hype building with the features and singles

2024 (the single) was huge
Idk how he got away with starting a rollout with mega singles that you couldn’t even stream and then just not dropping anything

OP asked what was Drake’s last major hit and niggas are naming Toosie Slide and Laugh Now Cry Later… please be serious

I don't think Drake has stopped being influential because the music industry, like most other industries, is based on seeing what the major acts do and then copying them.

Even on Scorpion, Drake was still inspiring other artists. Bounce was a very massive sound in New Orleans and has always been but Drake was the first artist to bring it to the forefront of mainstream music like he did and he did it with not one but TWO major number one smash hits. After those songs, it was mad artists like Chris Brown trying their hand at bounce music (to no success). But that's just another example of how he continues to inspire.

People will ALWAYS try to mimic and copy what they see someone else try and be successful at. That's just how the world works.

And while I don't think Drake is the driving creative force in rap anymore, it doesn't mean people still don't look to him and what he does. As for Drake, I think he spends more time trying his hand at already established sounds now and is less concerned with spear-heading new s*** but that's okay because he's spent more time than anyone else being the creative leader of the genre. It would be ridiculous to expect him to continue being that for the rest of his career and he's still making great music regardless.

Wayne and Kanye popularize the sound that T-Pain started that Future and Thug ran with and are considered the most influential of their generation and you can hear it all over today but nah Drake the most influential to melodic rap. Man ight bruh lmfao

Yeah. I'm more so referring to the summer and onward.

You're being mad disingenuous and you know it. None of them niggas you mentioned were ever as massive or as impactful as Drake. They never had his visibility for as long as he's had it.

And if the case you're trying to make is that Drake, the rapper who made his way by being super melodic and the artist out of all these names you've mentioned with SEVERAL major classic projects that have endured the test of time and were as impactful as they were mostly because of HOW he used melody on them, then you're even worse off than I thought.

Bring up all the names you want, none of them did it the way Drake did and no, you cannot erase 15 years of history. Try that s*** somewhere else.

maybe Die Within a Smile by Bruno.

I think drake got at least one more mega hit in him, even if he’s gonna most likely collab to do it

This or “Nice For What”

whatever he droppin next thursday will be a major hit

A theory could be that labels now have a harder time “creating” hits.
People listen to what they wanna listen too, music comes and goes faster.

idgaf, fps were hits
before that rich flex

2018 was genie in a bottle x5
2016 views

was he given the loot?

Blue Green Red a MAJOR hit in my heart

i think post covid people just phased out of "hits" that completely take over the world

rich flex

peaked at #2

2018.

IDGAF, FPS and Rich Flex AREN'T MAJOR hits lmaoo

Rich Flex is. Everyone knows the hook

"Everyone" LMAOOOOOOOOO

It was a hit but not a major hit. Nobody cares about this song now. The last major hits are from 2018. EVERYONE knows Gods Plan.