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Drake lost the beef and embraced the manosphere. Is it too late for him to win back his audience?
After his Kendrick Lamar feud, Drake alienated female fans. With new album Iceman, he’s aiming for the top of the charts again Despite his A-list pop star status, there’s been a noticeable scrappiness to Drake ’s rollout for his ninth album, Iceman . Last month, the rapper iced out his favorite courtside seats at the Toronto Raptors’ arena, with faux icicles dangling from the chairs. He followed that up with a more brazen stunt: a huge block of ice in downtown Toronto for the public to chip at until it thawed, revealing the album date. In early May, he debuted a quirky episodic series on YouTube featuring skits in an ice manufacturing plant and the rapper driving an Iceman-branded truck around Toronto. The mood seemed cheeky and defiant: good news for anyone who missed the memester of his 2016 viral hit Hotline Bling. It has been an eventful and complicated time for Drake since his most
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After his Kendrick Lamar feud, Drake alienated female fans. With new album Iceman, he’s aiming for the top of the charts again Despite his A-list pop star status, there’s been a noticeable scrappiness to Drake ’s rollout for his ninth album, Iceman . Last month, the rapper iced out his favorite courtside seats at the Toronto Raptors’ arena, with faux icicles dangling from the chairs. He followed that up with a more brazen stunt: a huge block of ice in downtown Toronto for the public to chip at until it thawed, revealing the album date. In early May, he debuted a quirky episodic series on YouTube featuring skits in an ice manufacturing plant and the rapper driving an Iceman-branded truck around Toronto. The mood seemed cheeky and defiant: good news for anyone who missed the memester of his 2016 viral hit Hotline Bling. It has been an eventful and complicated time for Drake since his most
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According to The Guardian’s linked item, Drake lost the beef and embraced the manosphere. Is it too late for him to win back his audience?, After his Kendrick Lamar feud, Drake alienated female fans. With new album Iceman, he’s aiming for the top of the charts again Despite his A-list pop star status, there’s been a noticeable scrappiness to Drake ’s rollout for his ninth album, Iceman . Last month, the rapper iced out his favorite courtside seats at the Toronto Raptors’ arena, with faux icicles dangling from the chairs. He followed that up with a more brazen stunt: a huge block of ice in downtown Toronto for the public to chip at until it thawed, revealing the album date. In early May, he debuted a quirky episodic series on YouTube featuring skits in an ice manufacturing plant and the rapper driving an Iceman-branded truck around Toronto. The mood seemed cheeky and defiant: good news for anyone who missed the memester of his 2016 viral hit Hotline Bling. It has been an eventful and complicated time for Drake since his most
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