He encouraged artists to love and compliment each other.
When Drake returned to the stage to accept the Top Male Artist award, he gave a nod to ScHoolboy Q who recently said in an interview that Drake gets hate for no reason. Q called Drake “one of the greats” and said, “If Drake is trash, you n*ggas stop giving him 50 billion streams, you get what I’m saying? ‘Cause y’all all listening to it, bruh, it’s too many streams…You just don’t wanna say it.”
On the BBMA stage Drake said, “This one means a lot to me because it’s an artist award and I just wanna say that we just got back from tour recently in Europe. We spent a lot of nights talking to each other. We spent a lot of nights conversing. We’ve obviously had an unfortunate series of losses within our business. I just want to encourage everybody to let other artists know how you feel about them. Let them know that you love them, respect them, while we’re all still here.”
JUST IN: @Drake win Top Male Artist at the #BBMAs and gives props to @ScHoolboyQ and @Offset ? pic.twitter.com/b7E8hYjjk6
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) May 2, 2019
“You know, ScHoolboy Q said something really nice about me the other day,” he added. “I had to sit there and debate whether or not I was going to reach out to him and obviously I didn’t feel like being that guy that’s too cool. So, I reached out to him. I let him know it meant the world to me. To each and every one of you that we do this together. We do this every year. My brother right there, Offset. Shout out to my brother. Came on tour with me, showed me love. My brother [Quavo]. To all of us, you know we put in a lot of work together. This is our thing so we gotta protect it. So I just encourage you tonight, just show somebody some love. Tell somebody you love their music and love what they do.”
The OVO rapper also beat out his competition in the following categories: Top Artist, Top Male Artist, Top 200 Artist, Top 100 Artist, Top Streaming Songs Artist, Top Songs Sales Artist, Top Radio Songs Artist, Top Rap Artist, Top Rap Male Artist, Top 200 Album, Top Rap Album, Top Streaming Song (Video).
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