While Drake has sampled Super Nintendo games in the past, today is not the day he shows video games more of that love. The Toronto-based rapper Drake did not write a song about Fortnite or his time Twitch streaming it on his newest album, Scorpion, which was released last night at midnight.
Last March, Drake spent a night playing and streaming Fortnite with Twitch star Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, which broke the Twitch viewership record at the time. When the tracklist dropped for Drake’s newest album, Scorpion, fans speculated the song “March 14” might have referred to that fateful evening. Ninja himself tweeted that if this were the case, “I would die.”
Instead of rapping about Fortnite, Drake addressed the other earth-shattering development: Rumors regarding his formerly unknown son, Adonis, who was revealed by rival rapper Pusha T in a diss track called “The Story of Adidon.”
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As a short backstory, the date “March 14” also happened to be around the time he found out about the baby he had with adult movie star Sophie Brussaux. This is hinted by the line “October baby for irony sake, of course.”
During the night they played Fortnite, Ninja told Drake that he should “put Fortnite lingo in the album.” Drake, however, said that he’d only do it if developer Epic Games gives him a “Hotline Bling” emote, which still hasn’t happened. At the time of release in 2016, the song “Hotline Bling” was a meme because the music video showed a giddy side of Drake, who was dancing by himself with colorful backdrops.
The release of Scorpion is already a hit in the hip hop and R&B world, but Fortnite fans will have to wait a little longer for Drake-related content. At least until Epic Games adds those emotes.
