After DJ Khaled’s headlining slot was cancelled last minute, Drake came out and surprised the London crowd with a surprise set instead. Because his week already hasn’t been big enough.
ICYMI, Drake broke Apple Music’s streaming records, had his album go Platinum the same day it was released, and is also apparently responsible for 5% of Toronto’s tourism economy. Yes this is all just the past week.
Now he’s at it again with his crazy shenanigans, this time surprising a packed Wireless Festival after DJ Khaled pulled out of the show. To top it off, the Canadian tourist attraction decided it was the perfect time to debut a bunch of songs live from his new album Scorpion.
The artist performed “God’s Plan”, as well as debuted a bunch of new tracks from Scorpion including”Nice For What”, and “In My Feelings”. The double sided 25 track album was released on the June 29th and has received backlash from fans after an over the top marketing campaign on Spotify.
During the short 6 song set, Drake told the crowd he was on holiday when he got asked to play the festival last minute. Because we all needed more reasons to appreciate the man who gifted us with countless emotional bangers.
Why did Drake have to fill in?
Although many people would argue that the replacement act was a step-up from DJ Khaled (just saying), some fans were upset. Especially considering that Wireless’ tweet cited “a scheduling conflict related to filming of The Four”, yet Khaled himself tweeted before he was due to take the stage, on vacation. Oops.
Still on vacation!!!!!!!! In this pic me and my son discussing release date for new anthem . @asahdkhaled: dad we fully loaded .. Daddy: of course! I also said son lets enjoy our vacation our fans know we coming FAN LUV KNOW HOW WE DO ! @wethebestmusic !!!! #FatherOfAsahd pic.twitter.com/5yZUJHQGpj
— DJ KHALED (@djkhaled) July 7, 2018
The show has got fans even more excited for his upcoming tour with Migos. Whilst no Australian dates have been announced yet and his schedule is packed until mid-November, we are hopeful he will be heading to our shores again in 2019.
By that point he’ll also have probably released another album going off the past four years. Until then we can just enjoy the large volume of music he put out less than two weeks ago.
Watch: Drake – “Nice For What”
