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But it did not take that long to get people talking again. In early March, Drake announced and dropped the quick-hit Scary Hours 2 EP, a three-track warmup for CLB that included contributions from frequent collaborators Lil Baby and Rick Ross. And no better way to get the buzz back on your side than debuting all three songs in the top three spots of the Hot 100 – a first for any artist – with the blaring “What’s Next” leading the pack, a shot he even called with the song’s predictive boast, “I’m on the Hot One Hundo, numero uno.”
但没过那么长时间，人们就又开口了。3月初，德雷克宣布并放弃了快速点击的《恐怖时刻2》EP，这是CLB的三轨热身，其中包括频繁合作者Lil Baby和Rick Ross的贡献。没有比在热门100强的前三名首次亮相所有三首歌曲更好的方法了——这是任何艺术家的首曲——以响亮的“下一步是什么”为首，他甚至用这首歌的预测性吹嘘“我在Hot One Hundo，numero uno”称这一镜头。

With CLB still in the oven, Drake carried the thunder of his early March splash back into the feature pipeline, popping up in seemingly every corner of the hip-hop world to keep his name floating around. Guest spots were granted to newcomers like Yung Bleu and Smiley, fresh-out-of-prison MC Drakeo the Ruler, and longtime friends like Migos. This made him a ubiquitous voice throughout 2021, no matter which corner of the hip-hop world listeners resided in. On top of that, Yung Bleu turned the success of “You’re Mines Still” into a breakout 2021 for himself — including a best new hip-hop artist win at the BET Hip-Hop Awards — a sign that a Drake verse still holds immense power in minting rap’s rising stars.
由于CLB仍在烤箱中，德雷克将他3月初溅起的雷声带回了功能管道，似乎出现在嘻哈世界的每个角落，以保持他的名字四处漂浮。嘉宾名额授予了Yung Bleu和Smiley等新来者、刚出监狱的统治者MC Drakeo以及Migos等老朋友。这使得他在整个2021年的声音无处不在，无论嘻哈世界的听众居住在哪个角落。除此之外，Yung Bleu将《你仍然是矿山》的成功变成了2021年的突破——包括一名最佳新嘻哈艺术家在BET嘻哈奖上获胜——这表明德雷克的诗句在铸造说唱的冉冉升起的明星方面仍然具有巨大的力量。

And that inevitability, commercial tenacity and perpetual dominance was honored in monumental fashion at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, when he was named artist of the decade for the 2010s, accepting the award with friends, family and his son Adonis by his side. “I just know that I’ve spent an incalculable amount of hours trying to analyze all the things I did wrong, but tonight, for once, I’m sure as hell we did something right,” Drake remarked during his acceptance speech. He rented out the newly built SoFi Stadium to celebrate the accolade with family and friends well before any fan could step foot inside to watch a Rams or Chargers game there.
在2021年公告牌音乐奖上，这种不可避免性、商业坚韧性和永久的主导地位以不朽的方式得到了表彰，当时他被任命为2010年代十年艺术家，在朋友、家人和儿子阿多尼斯的陪伴下接受了该奖项。德雷克在获奖感言中说：“我只知道，我花了数不计的时间试图分析我做错的所有事情，但今晚，我确信我们做了正确的事情。”他租出了新建的SoFi体育场，在任何球迷踏入观看公羊队或充电器比赛之前，与家人和朋友一起庆祝荣誉。

While work on Drake’s sixth studio album entered the eleventh hour, the summer seemingly belonged to hip-hop world-swallower Kanye West as his lead-up to Donda spanned three stadium-sized listening parties across multiple months of drama, speculation and conversation. Amidst the chaos came the resurfacing of tensions between the two hip-hop titans, which had most memorably percolated back in 2018 following fellow GOOD Music lieutenant Pusha T’s diss track exposé of Drake’s hidden child. Text exchanges and home addresses hit social media in mid-August, nondescript video responses were posted, and the two once again found themselves at hip-hop internet’s center stage.
当德雷克第六张录音室专辑的工作进入最后一刻时，这个夏天似乎属于嘻哈世界吞噬者坎耶·韦斯特，因为他在唐达的前奏跨越了三个体育场大小的聆听派对，经历了几个月的戏剧性、猜测和对话。在混乱中，两位嘻哈巨头之间的紧张关系再次浮出水面，在GOOD Music中尉Pusha T揭露德雷克隐藏的孩子后，这些紧张关系在2018年就最令人难忘地被渗透了。8月中旬，文本交换和家庭地址在社交媒体上流行起来，发布了非描述性的视频回复，两人再次发现自己处于嘻哈互联网的中心舞台。

Kanye’s 10th studio effort arrived early on the Sunday morning following its final listening party in late August, and a cryptic SportsCenter tease set the long-awaited Certified Lover Boy for the Friday after. Deliberate or not, their close proximity in release dates naturally set the two up for critical and commercial competition, and fans took to forums and comment sections to take sides on the latest Drake versus Kanye bout. CLB tracks like “7AM On Birdie Path” seemingly stoked the feud’s flames: “And look at the heroes fallin’ from grace in their older ages/ If we talkin’ top three, then you been slidin’ to third like stolen bases.”
Kanye的第10次工作室工作是在8月底最后一次聆听派对后于周日清晨到来，一个神秘的SportsCenter戏弄为期待已久的认证情人男孩设定了后周五。无论是否深思熟虑，他们在上映日期的近距离接触自然为两者提供了关键和商业竞争，粉丝们在论坛和评论区，在德雷克对坎耶的最新回合中站在一边。像《Birdie Path上的早上7点》这样的美国职业棒球大联盟曲目似乎点燃了宿怨的火焰：“看看那些年老时从恩典中堕落的英雄/如果我们谈论前三名，那么你就像被盗的基地一样滑向第三。”

CLB was met with lukewarm critical reception from critics and tastemakers, but that lack of acclaim did not hinder its commercial prowess – the album spent five weeks atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, and “Way 2 Sexy” with Future and Young Thug debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100. Even more historically, a total of nine tracks occupied the top 10 spots in the week following its release, another first in a year that included many for Drizzy. Commercial numbers have always been Drake’s bag and CLB’s output was no different, helping him finish the year with 35 total songs charted on the Hot 100. And when all was said and done, the Kanye kerfuffle never escalated beyond a couple back-and-forth subliminals, both rappers coming out of the situation relatively unscathed.
CLB受到了评论家和品味师的冷淡批评，但缺乏好评并没有妨碍其商业实力——这张专辑在公告牌200张专辑排行榜上花了五周时间，《Way 2 Sexy》与Future and Young Thug在热门100上首次亮相，排名第1。从历史上看，在发布后的一周内，共有九首曲目占据了前10名，这是一年来的第一首曲目，其中包括许多Drizzy的曲目。商业数字一直是德雷克的包，CLB的输出也没有什么不同，帮助他以35首热门100首歌曲结束了这一年。说到底，Kanye的争吵从未升级到几个来回的潜意识之外，两位说唱歌手都相对安然无恙地走出了局面。

Then, in mid-November, an apparent reconciliation with Kanye hit the internet, and the announcement of a “Free Larry Hoover” benefit concert followed – an agreement brokered by longtime music executive J Prince. Previous differences aside, Ye and Drake wound up performing at the sold-out Los Angeles Coliseum on Dec. 9 not only to an in-person crowd, but to millions of onlookers watching the show’s livestream and reviewing it in real time on social media. The former ran through a discography hits set, while the latter played a CLB-focused set, before the two came together to end the show with their stadium-fitting 2009 collaboration “Forever” – a properly communal ending to a drawn-out saga.
然后，在11月中旬，与Kanye的明显和解传到了互联网上，随后宣布了一场“自由拉里·胡佛”慈善音乐会——这是一项由长期音乐高管J Prince促成的协议。撇开之前的分歧不谈，Ye和Drake最终于12月9日在售罄的洛杉矶体育馆表演，不仅面对面的人群，还向数百万观看该节目直播并在社交媒体上实时评论的旁观者表演。前者经历了唱片热门场景，而后者则播放了以CLB为重点的场景，然后两人以2009年适合体育场的合作“Forever”结束了演出——这是旷日持久的传奇的恰当公共结局。

Drake ended 2021 once again at the top of the pack on Billboard’s year-end Top Artist Chart – his second time receiving the distinction, following 2018 – in large part due to the unyielding success of CLB and its many breakout cuts. The record notched a best rap album nomination while “2 Sexy” landed a best rap performance nod at the 2022 Grammys. Drake rejected the nominations, however: a sign not only of his long-contentious relationship with Music’s Biggest Night, but of how – after being certified the biggest artist of any stripe for an entire decade – being relegated to genre categories for an annual award likely held little appeal for him.
德雷克在2021年底再次登上公告牌年终顶级艺术家排行榜的榜首——2018年后，他第二次获得荣誉——这在很大程度上是由于美国职业棒球大联盟的不屈不挠的成功及其多次突破性削减。这张唱片获得了最佳说唱专辑提名，而《2 Sexy》在2022年格莱美颁奖典礼上获得了最佳说唱表演提名。然而，德雷克拒绝了提名：这不仅表明他与音乐的《最大之夜》长期有争议的关系，而且表明在被认证为所有条纹中最大的艺术家整整十年后，被降级为年度奖项的流派类别对他来说可能没有什么吸引力。

Despite whatever doubts lingered about his continued preeminence going into the new decade, 2021 ended for Drake as simply another headline-dominating year, with copious amounts of commercial success and more life lived until 2022. So it goes for The Boy.
尽管人们对德雷克进入新十年的持续卓越地位存有各种疑问，但2021年对德雷克来说只是又一个占据头条新闻的一年，在2022年之前取得了巨大的商业成功，更多的生活。《The Boy》也是如此。

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