Mid-Day SMAACK 💋‍ (Drake, Jay-Z, and Janet Jackson)

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Drake is really showing out this year! ‘Views’ has completely sky rocketed on the charts, and now he is being named on the Forbes list for the Five Wealthiest Rappers – replacing 50 Cent in the #5 spot. Being the youngest rapper on the list, he is superseded by Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and Birdman. Put this into perspective, Drake is only 29 YEARS OLD. 29 y’all. #lifegoals #letmegetmylifetogether
And let’s not forget about these numbers on the album sales. TURNT.

Via Love BScott

Hits Daily Double is backing up Forbes’ claim, adding that Drake just beat Justin Bieber’s previous streaming record by about 35 million streams.

The album looks set to bow with around 850k-900k album sales and as much as 1.2m SPS, and has already amassed more than 150m streams U.S., 175m worldwide. Bey previously shattered Justin Bieber’s record by earning 115m first-week domestic streams. Drake’s worldwide total streams (with all services) could be as high as 300m first week.

Drake’s daily sales through Sunday appear in the breakdown below.

Overnight: 200k
Day 1 (4/28): 375k
Day 2 (4/29): 100k
Day 3 (4/30) 55k
TOTAL through Sunday: 730k

Dishing out almost 800k in one weekend?! Let’s get it!


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Jay-Z to make a response to his wifey’s Lemonade?…. Hm. Where you going with this Jigga? Word on the street is that he will be putting out an album talking about “his side” of the story with the infidelity claims made in Beyonce’s album:

Via US Weekly

An insider reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly that the rap icon, 46, is recording songs that will reveal his version of events surrounding the rough patch in his eight-year marriage to Beyoncé. “Jay is working on an album telling his side of things,” explains a source close to the couple.

On April 23, Queen Bey, 34, shocked fans with the HBO video special and albumLemonade, addressing long-­standing rumors about her husband’s fidelity with lyrics like “This is your final warning / You know I give you life / If you try this s??t again / You gon’ lose your wife.” During the 60-­minute art film, the Houston native lays bare a deeply personal journey of betrayal and reconciliation, culminating with a final image of her and her husband.

Some insist the film is not autobiographical. “People want to make it about her,” her dad and former manager, Mathew Knowles, tells Us. “Maybe she dug deep and made it about something we all could relate to.” But insiders say the “Sorry” singer’s words speak her truth. “The album says it all,” notes a source close to the couple. “It explains how she and Jay got through their problems. The good outweighed the bad, so she gave him a second chance.”

What do we have to expect from this…? Let’s SMAACK. Are we into this or no?


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The baby train is still chugging! And our new mommy-to-be is Janet Jackson! Awhile ago she announced he cancelled tour because she wanted to start a family with her family. Well we see she already had the little one cooking when she said that 👀 Congrats Janet! Can already see the baby is going to be gawgesssss.

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