Drake carried out a career-spanning SiriusXM live performance on the Apollo Theater in New York City on Saturday night time (January 21), whereas teasing a brand new album and tour and bringing out visitors Dipset and 21 Savage.
During the mammoth set, Drizzy carried out tracks from all seven of his solo albums. Those included ‘Karaoke’ from ‘Thank Me Later’ and ‘Take Care’ lower ‘Over My Dead Boy’ – each of which beforehand hadn’t been carried out stay since 2015. An even rarer shock got here within the type of the 2010 Timbaland collaboration ‘Say Something’, carried out for the primary time in additional than a decade.
Elsewhere on the 40+ sturdy setlist had been the likes of ‘Marvin’s Room’, ‘Over’, ‘HYFR (Hell Ya Fucking Right’, ‘Started From the Bottom’, ‘No New Friends’, ‘Energy’, ‘God’s Plan’, ‘Hold On We’re Going Home’, ‘In My Feelings’, ‘One Dance’ and ‘Passionfruit’. The stage remodeled all through the night with varied set adjustments, from his childhood bed room, to a file label boardroom, to a Harlem deli market.
For the night’s ultimate quarter, Drake introduced out New York hip-hop royalty The Diplomats. Drake and Dipset – Cam’ron, Jim Jones, Freekey Zekey and Juelz Santana – carried out ‘I Really Mean It’, ‘Dipset Anthem’ and ‘We Fly High (Ballin)’.
“These guys right here from Harlem made us dress different, talk different, walk different, rap different all the way in Canada,” Drake – draped in Cam’ron’s iconic pink mink coat – stated because the influential group left the stage.
After that, Drake introduced out ‘Her Loss’ collaborator 21 Savage to carry out a pair of tracks from their 2022 album. The duo kicked off with the stay debuts of ‘Privileged Rappers’ and ‘Spin Bout You’, earlier than wrapping up with ‘Jimmy Cooks’ and ‘Knife Talk’. Drizzy ended the night time with ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’ opener ‘Legend’, performing it for the primary time stay since 2017.
Key takeaways from the night included, whereas joined onstage with 21 Savage, Drake teasing a joint tour. “We’re gonna be out on the road this summer,” he advised followers. He additionally indicated a 2023 solo album may very well be on the way in which.
“I’ve thought about a bunch of things in life, but at this moment in time none of those things are stopping making music for you, so I’ll be here for you for a little bit at least,” he stated. “I hope I can strike up more emotions for you. Maybe this year – I might get bored and make another one. Who knows?”
Drake’s most up-to-date solo album arrived final yr with ‘Honestly, Nevermind’. In a three-star evaluation, NME known as the file “an unexpected elevation from the bland trap, R&B remakes and Drake’s melancholic to love we heard last time around”, evaluating it favourably to 2021’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’.