
The Twitter storm received coverage around the Internet including Time, Perez Hilton, Billboard, and TMZ. The tweet quickly hit over 100,000 retweets.

On July 21st, rapper Meek Mill tweeted that he was tired of comparisons to Drake, saying that he doesn't write his own lyrics. The Meek Mill Drake Beef is an ongoing feud between Drake and rapper Meek Mill. Despite being only released on Apple Music, the video did well, getting over 14,000 likes, 2300 comments, and 3500 shares. On July 10th, 2015, Drake released his music video for the song "Energy". In the first month, the video gained upwards of 11 million views and 24,000 comments. On September 25th, 2013, the music video for "Hold On, We're Going Home" was published on the DrakeVEVO YouTube channel (shown below, left). On February 13th, 2013, Drake released the music video for "Started From the Bottom" on YouTube (shown below, right), which accumulated more than 84 million views and 173,000 comments within eight months. In the next 18 months, the video gathered over 91 million views and 76,000 comments. On April 23rd, 2012, the music video for the song "Take Care" was uploaded to the DrakeVEVO channel (shown below, left). On February 10th, 2012, the music video for the song "The Motto" was released on YouTube (shown below, right), which garnered more than 450,000 views within the first three weeks. On October 21st, 2011, Drake released the music video for the song "Headlines" on YouTube (shown below, left), receiving upwards of 49.8 million views and 79,000 comments in the following two years. In the first three years, the video brought in more than 64 million views and 100,000 comments. On April 7th, 2010, the music video for the track “Over” was uploaded to YouTube (shown below, right). On November 25th, the music video for the song “Forever” was released on the DrakeVEVO YouTube channel (shown below, left), raking in over 53 million views and 170,000 comments in the next four years. As of October 2013, Drake's social media presence on Twitter and Facebook command more than 12.7 million followers and 31 million likes, respectively. On June 6th, the official Drake website was launched, featuring biographical information, tour dates, music and videos of the artist. On May 23rd, 2009, the official Drake Facebook page was created.
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The $185m Boeing 767, which has been called “Air Drake”, typically seats hundreds of people for commercial flights but has been modified to the rapper’s own tastes.ĭrake proudly showed off the revamping of his jet in a video posted online three years ago, in which the aircraft is shown with leather armchairs, luxury bathrooms and a full kitchen.On March 14th, 2007, the official Twitter feed was launched for the then-cast member of Degrassi: The Next Generation. “Ultra-short, non-essential flying only multiplies the journey’s climate impacts and we hope celebrities will wake up to the damaging impact of their frivolous flying.”ĭrake’s climate impact is larger than many other celebrities with private jets because of the enormous size of his personal aircraft. These egregious flights add climate-heating pollution all along their journey, from taxiing on the runway to the ground vehicles that service the aircraft.

“This is a prime example of wasteful carbon emissions leading to even more wasteful carbon emissions. “Drake’s living in his own meme if he thinks an empty private jet flight is better than a wasteful one with a celebrity on board,” said Scott Hochberg, a transportation attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. Private jets contribute in a relatively small but significant way to the climate crisis, emitting more than 33m tonnes of greenhouse gases, more than the country of Denmark, each year.īecause they carry so few people they are five to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes, per passenger, and 50 times more polluting than trains, researchers have found.ĭrake’s empty flights will have been even more carbon intensive, given the lack of people on board.
