BBL Drizzy

About

BBL Drizzy is a rap song made by American hip-hop producer Metro Boomin and distributed on Soundcloud free for other rappers to use in May 2024. BBL Drizzy, which notably references the BBL Drake meme, participates in the ongoing Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake beef as an attack against Drake, setting up a competition in which Metro Boomin promised to reward a beat and cash prize to the person who made the best verse to go along with the track.

Origin

The spring of 2024 saw an escalating rap beef feud between Drake and a group of hip-hop artists led by Kendrick Lamar, including Metro Boomin. After Drake told Metro Boomin to "shut up" and "make some drums" in the diss track "Push Ups" released on April 19th, 2024, Metro Boomin dismissed the remark with a series of memes and social media posts in a retort.

On May 5th, 2024, Metro Boomin uploaded the audio track for "BBL Drizzy," a song mocking Drake and making reference to the BBL Drake meme that alleges the Canadian rapper received plastic surgery.^[1] Within 24 hours, the audio accumulated over 1.5 million plays and 80,000 likes on Soundcloud (seen below).^[3] According to an Instagram Story quoted in Billboard, Drake replied, "You just cheffed a beat about my a–?"^[2]

Metro Boomin then posted the track on X / Twitter, announcing a competition in a May 5th post (seen below), which earned over 159,000 likes in less than a day. He promised a free beat to the winner of the competition who made the best song from "BBL Drizzy."^[4]

An update was added to the competition on May 6th, 2024, with Metro Boomin promising to produce a free beat for the runner-up to the competition as well as $10,000 to the winner in a post to X (seen below) that received over 31,000 likes in 30 minutes.^[5]

"BBL Drizzy" samples from an AI-generated joke song created by comedian @kingwillonious on April 14th, which received over 4,700 likes in three weeks (shown below).^[11]

Metro Boomin acknowledged the sample in a post to X and an exchange with Willonious on May 5th (seen below), earning over 166,000 likes in a day.^[12]

Spread

Entries to the competition rapidly sprung up on X, where artists used the hashtag "#bbldrakegiveaway" to mark their songs as submissions for Metro Boomin's competition. On May 6th, 2024, Boomin highlighted a video as particularly funny (seen below) that was made by X user @traphouseSports, earning over 80,000 likes in one day.^[6]

On May 5th, the 17-year-old rapper and X user @ynvurse earned over 187,000 likes for a remix posted to their account (seen below).^[10]

On YouTube, artists also posted their remixes of BBL Drizzy, including Yuno Miles Enterprises, who trended on YouTube Music and earned over 538,000 views and 58,000 upvotes in a day on May 5th for his video (seen below).^[9]

On TikTok, user @thatsjust.in earned over 59,000 likes and 328,000 views in 19 hours on May 5th posting a video of himself listening to a rap in Japanese set over the Metro Boomin track and dissing Drake (seen below, left).^[7] Others posted their own songs, like TikToker @charliecurtisb on May 5th, who earned over 553,000 likes and 3.2 million views in 21 hours (seen below, right).^[8]

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