Drake has thrown open the gates to his digital archives with a staggering content dump of photographs, behind-the-scenes videos and songs. The Toronto music superstar unleashed a massive trove of material on Tuesday afternoon without any previous announcement, sending his fans on an impromptu treasure hunt.
The files were released on 100gigs.org and organized in 40 folders named after various album releases and significant points in his career. All of the files were organized and dated from March 7 to June 8.Atop the list of folders was one titled “New,” which contained three previously unheard Drake tracks: “It’s Up,” featuring Young Thug and 21 Savage, “Housekeeping Knows,” featuring Latto and “Blue Green Red.”
Other archival footage stored on the site featured Drake on the music video set for “Hotline Bling,” collaborating in the studio with his producers, and his friends goofing around backstage. Drake’s return comes after a short period of relative silence as his feud with L.A. rapper Kendrick Lamar hit a boiling point. Lamar emerged the victor of popular opinion when his track “Not Like Us” became one of the summer’s breakout hits. But Drake has largely shied away from the conflict in recent weeks.
On Friday, he performed a surprise set at R&B singer Partynextdoor Toronto concert, saying he’s been working on a collaborative album with his label mate that will be released in the fall. Those words set the table for Drake’s content deluge on Tuesday. It started when Drake posted clips of three songs to his official Instagram account. They offered a clue that pointed his followers to a different profile named @plottttwistttttt.The new Instagram account was stacked with photographs, all of which were uploaded in the weeks after it was created in June. There was also a link to the 100 gigs website.
Aside from musical footage, the website stored a number of other curiosities. One folder included footage of Drake’s producer Noah (40) Shebib renovating the recording studio at his former “YOLO Estate” in California, which he sold in 2022.Another appeared to show women at Houston strip club Area 29 counting piles of U.S. cash on the floor of the club. In 2021, Drake faced some criticism after he reportedly spent $1 million at Area 29 in the hours following his performance at Travis Scott’s ill-fated Astro world concert. That show is where 10 people were killed and hundreds more were injured in a deadly crowd crush. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 6, 2024.
Drake has released a huge folder of previously unseen content which includes three new songs and behind the scenes footage.
Material from studio sessions, audio clips and the fresh tunes were uploaded to website 100gigs, with the Canadian rapper posting a screenshot of the site on his Instagram Story. The three unreleased songs are titled: It’s Up, featuring Young Thug and 21 Savage, Housekeeping Knows, featuring Latto, and Blue Green Red.
The release, which totals just over 100 gigabytes of data, comes after a quiet few months for Drake following his feud with fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar. Too much Drake?
In one of the folders which references 2016 hit Hotline Bling, Drake is seen explaining the song is named after someone he had a romantic encounter with, whose name he saved in his phone as “Hotline Bling”.
They include Drake dancing in front of a clear background that changes colour, and then watching his dancing back on screen. Another folder which references Honestly Nevermind shows footage from inside the studio of the production of the 2022 album, in which Drake and his team are reacting to the music.
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