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21 Savage makes the case for why Drake will never be able to surpass Future in the Atlanta streets during a recent visit to Akademiks' 'Off The Record' podcast.

Drake Breaks Apple Music + Spotify Streaming Records With Certified Lover Boy Taylor Hill/Getty Images for Governors Ball | Gregory Shamus/Getty Images 21 Savage Names The 1 Atlanta Rapper Drake Can't Surpass: 'Them Statistics Don't Mean Shit' Published on:Sep 29, 2021, 5:57 AM by 8 Atlanta, GA Drakemay be one of (if not the) biggest rappers on the planet as proven by the record-breaking successof his latest album Certified Lover Boy but one city the 6 God will never reign supreme in is Atlanta. Thats according to 21 Savage, anyway. During a recent appearance on DJ Akademiks Off The Record podcast, the Slaughter Gang rapper who grew up in East Atlanta after emigrating from London, England with his mother argued that for all of Drakes chart dominance, hell never be able to dethrone Future as top dog in the ATL streets. N-ggas dont be listening to Drake like that where , he said. When you aint no rapper, all them statistics dont mean shit. A regular street n-gga dont give a fuck about how many times you went Number 1 how many white people listen to your shit, cause they dont even think that far. The farthest they think is the club: whos selling this club out? Thats who they think is the biggest n-ggas. In Atlanta, its a lot of n-ggas who you really cant tell them Future aint bigger than Drake. Backing up his bold claim, 21 Savage explained how Futures preeminence in Atlanta is bolstered by the ubiquity of his catalog in the mixtape circuit, whereas Drakes discography is more likely to be found in a big-box store than in the hands of a local bootlegger. Drake aint really no big mixtape artist like that, he argued. How you got all your Drake albums, you probably went in the store and bought them muthafuckas. Every Future album I ever heard was a bootleg. N-ggas was bootlegging it or going to LiveMixtapes, so when Nothing Was the Same or all that type of shit came out, n-gga I aint know how to get to that shit. 21 Savage later took to Twitter to clarify his comments regarding the Drake vs. Future debate. Na I said some people that come from where I come from do, he tweeted on Wednesday morning (September 29). Because when I was younger I was disconnected from mainstream music I didnt know what Spotify was until I was a rapper all we knew was mixtapes. During his Off The Record interview, 21 Savage went so far as to say if he wasnt a rapper, he wouldnt even pay attention to Drakes music a curious statement for a rapper who has collaborated with the OVO boss several times, including on his latest album Certified Lover Boy (Knife Talk). If I wasnt a rapper, I dont feel like I still would listen to Drake, for real, he said. Read more