Drake’s son joins rapper throughout acceptance speech for Artist of the Decade at Billboard Music Awards
Drake has been honoured as Artist of the Decade at this yr’s Billboard Music Awards, together with his son Adonis becoming a member of him onstage throughout his acceptance speech.
The award was offered to the Canadian rapper by his family and friends at Sunday’s (Might 23) ceremony. Strolling onto the stage in a white go well with together with his son in tow, Drake continued to ship an acceptance speech that touched on feeling important of his personal music.
“Even when I do a very good job I at all times surprise if I might have finished higher,” he mentioned. “I hardly ever have a good time something.”
“For anybody who’s watching this that’s questioning how this occurred, you recognize that’s actually the reply. It’s being so not sure of the way you’re getting it finished that you just simply sort of preserve going within the hopes of determining the system.”
“I didn’t actually write a grandiose speech about find out how to make it work or what it took, ’trigger you recognize, to be actually sincere with you I don’t fairly perceive it myself,” he added.
Watch the complete speech under.
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— Billboard Music Awards (@BBMAs) May 24, 2021
Drake is up for quite a lot of different awards at this yr’s BBMAs, together with nominations for High Artist, High Male Artist, High Billboard 200 Artist, High Scorching 100 Artist, High Streaming Tune – for ‘Life Is Good’ – and High Rap Artist. He additionally already received a trophy for High Streaming Songs Artist earlier within the day.
Different highlights from the occasion embrace Doja Cat and SZA performing ‘Kiss Me Extra’ for the primary time, in addition to BTS‘ reside debut of their new single ‘Butter’.
Rumours round Drake’s forthcoming album ‘Licensed Lover Boy’ have been swirling, however the report is but to obtain an official launch date.
“I don’t have a precise date, however it’s within the pot and it’s coming quickly,” he mentioned again in March.
He did nonetheless deal with followers to new music within the type of an EP, ‘Scary Hours 2’, which NME gave three stars in a evaluation.
“Total, on ‘Scary Hours 2’ Drake sounds much less like an artist with one thing to show and extra like a title defender who would possibly lastly be keen to problem himself once more,” NME‘s Luke Morgan Britton mentioned of the discharge.