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Drake Dominates With Record 9 Of Top 10 On Billboard Hot 100, Led By 'Way 2 Sexy' At No. 1
SPOTLIGHT
IMANI
This week’s Spotlight feature, Imani, will definitely get your attention. She wants everyone to know that she is a force to be reckoned with, and she won’t stop until she reaches her goal of total success. Imani is a tireless worker who always finds the time to pursue her dreams and ambitions, because she’s willing to make the sacri- fices and put in the work to reach her goals. Congratula- tions to Imani as this week’s Spotlight feature.
Drake boasts one of the most dominant weeks in the 63-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as he be- comes the first artist ever to claim as many as nine of the top 10 positions in a single frame.
Among his Hot 100 haul, the superstar infuses the entire top five, a feat previously achieved only by The Beatles for a week in 1964.
Leading the way, Drake's "Way 2 Sexy," featuring Fu- ture and Young Thug,
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launches at No. 1 on the Hot 100. In all, Drake debuts 21 songs on the Hot 100, all from his new album Certified Lover
Boy (released Sept. 3 on OVO Sound/Republic Records), which blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 613,000 equivalent album units earned in the U. S. in the week ending Sept. 9, according to MRC Data, the biggest weekly sum for an album in over a year.
Meanwhile, with all nine of Drake's new Hot 100 top 10s from Certified Lover Boy, the set is the first album ever to generate as many as nine top 10 Hot 100 hits.
Joy Reid Asks Nicki Minaj To Use Her Platform For Fans To Get Vaccinated; Nicki Reacts
Nicki Minaj fired back at MSNBC host Joy Reid over the scolding she received for ex- pressing skepticism toward the coronavirus vaccine.
Minaj announced on Twitter that she was not going to The Met gala over its vaccine re- quirement for attendees. "They want you to get vaccinated for the Met. if I get vaccinated it won’t for the Met. It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now," Minaj wrote. "In the meantime my loves, be safe. Wear the mask with 2 strings that grips your head & face. Not that loose one."
She later tweeted about her "cousin in Trinidad" who is re- fusing to take the vaccine be- cause a friend of his claimed "his testicles became swollen" and "became impotent" as a result of getting the shot, causing his fi- ancé to call off their wedding.
"So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur deci- sion, not bullied," Minaj added.
None of the vaccine skepticism sat well with the "ReidOut" host, who condemned the rapper on air.
"You have a platform, sister, that is 22 million followers, OK? I have 2 million followers. You
NICKI MINAJ
have 22 million followers on Twitter," Reid told Minaj. "For you to use your platform to en- courage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives, my God sister, you can do better than that! You got that platform -- it's a blessing that you got that! The people lis- ten to you -- and they listen to you more than they listen to me!"
"For you to use your platform to put people in the position of dying from a disease they don't have to die from, oh my God, sis- ter. As a fan, as a hip-hop fan, as somebody who is your fan, I'm so sad that you did that, so sad that you did that, sister. Oh, my God," Reid added.
“This is what happens when you’re so thirsty to down another
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black woman (by the request of the white man), that you didn’t bother to read all my tweets. ‘My God SISTER do better’ imagine getting ur dumb a– on tv a min after a tweet to spread a false narrative about a black woman,” Minaj tweeted.
“A lying homophobic c–n. I guess I can join in the reindeer games too right? Ppl can go on tv &lieonme,Icanreporton them, too right? Smiling face. Doesn’t have to be truths. It can be half truths. Uncle Tomiana asked who on earth would trust the US FDA guys...,” Minaj tweeted.
A music critic stated to Minaj, " Is 700,000 deaths in the U. S. from the COVID virus not enough research for you Nicki."
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