Drake performs after five years and announces new songs

AP – It’s easy to forget how many hit songs dragon created in his nearly 15-year musical career. But he delivered an emphatic reminder at an intimate concert at Harlem’s Apollo Theater on Saturday, his first show at the legendary venue.

During the presentation, the four-time winner of the Gram The 36-year-old has joked that new music may be on the way, despite having released two albums in the last year.

“I’ve thought about a lot of things in life, but at this point none of those things are stopping me from making music,” Drake told the passionate crowd. “I hope I can stir up more emotion for you, maybe this year – I might get bored and do another one.”

The first night of two Apollo weekend shows presented by SiriusXM saw the 36-year-old crank out songs at a frantic pace – most with just a verse and a chorus – satisfying day one fans with deep cuts for those too familiar only with their successes. . Recorded performances will be broadcast on the channel SiriusXM 42 sound by Drake in the coming weeks.

Sunday’s show was marred by an incident, when a very excited fan fell from the mezzanine onto the floor. Drake was immediately notified and stopped the show, asking if everyone was okay. The performance continued as normal after the rapper checked that the man was okay. “No one was hurt,” Drake’s team warned the audience.

Noting that this was his first show in about five years and later stating that he’s “going to travel a lot this year,” the most-streamed artist at the Spotify in the US last year he told his captive audience that the show was about gratitude: “I wanted this to be a show about gratitude,” Drake said. “This is a small story that we’ve built: my deep love for my family, my dear friends, and each of you who have supported me for a long time.”

Rocking pigtails while wearing baggy jeans and a blue and yellow Jimmy Brooks basketball jersey – a tribute to his days as an actor on the teen drama series Degrassi -, Drake opened the presentation with On my corpse alongside celebrity guests such as Justin and Hailey Bieberformer NBA MVP and current Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant, NFL star Odell Beckham Jr., rappers A$AP Ferg and A Boogie wit da Hoodie.

Seated on a bed positioned stage right, inspired by his mother’s basement room in Toronto, where she said she wrote songs, Drake sang many of his B-side hits, such as Wu-Tang forever, trust issues, practice and Feel No way.

He also sang his most popular repertoire, Marvin’s roomas the standing crowd joined him word for word before moving on to his chorus of say something by Timbaland while the beat of Marvin’s room continued.

As the bedroom backdrop faded to black and the light moved to stage left, revealing a meeting room, Drake donned a black leather hoodie emblazoned with his OVO owl symbol. The rapper was faced with an artist playing a record executive who skeptically remarked that it was “interesting” that he was a Canadian rapper, before saying, “Okay, let’s see what you’ve got.” (Drake would later remind the crowd how every major New York label dropped him.)

To start with Best I’ve ever hadthe R&B hit that propelled his career, continued his musical journey with early hits of the era young moneyhow Headlines, HYFR, started from the bottom And I am No. The crowd also performed to more danceable records like Massive from the project Honestly, it doesn’t matter last year, as well as Wait, we’re going home, a dance, passionfruit And In my feelings.

The last leg of the 90-minute set began with a surprise performance by popular early 2000s Harlem rap collective The Diplomats, which featured Drake wearing Cam’ron’s pink overalls and pink bandana. He then teamed up with 21 Savage to play songs like Rich Flex, Spin Bout You And Knife talk of their joint project, Her Loss, released in November.

Apollo’s long-standing tagline is “Where stars are born and legends are formed!” So was it either strategic or accidental how he ended the show Legend. Though it may be too soon to wrap it up with the legend moniker the way the Apollo Walk of Fame icons like it Michael Jackson, Prince, Aretha Franklin and James Brown carry, left no doubt that he was on the right track.

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Earl

Earl Johnson is a music writer at Gossipify, known for his in-depth analysis and unique perspective on the industry. A graduate of USC with a degree in Music, he brings years of experience and passion to his writing. He covers the latest releases and trends, always on the lookout for the next big thing in music.