Soulja Boy is certain that Drake has, once again, copied his whole flow, word-for-word, bar-for-bar.
While speaking with Hip-Hop Wired, Soulja was asked about Drake dropping three projects—Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour—on the same day.
“To be honest, it could be a coincidence,” he responded. “You gotta ask him. Like, ‘Hey man, did Soulja inspire you?’”
On Halloween 2009, Soulja dropped three mixtapes, Dat Piff, Paranormal Activity, and Cortez.
“I don’t know. It’s crazy to see stuff that I did, still being done to this day,” Soulja continued. “That’s hard. I salute it.”
Days after Drake dropped Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour, Soulja took to X to lay claim to being the “first rapper to drop three projects in the same day.”
A community note on Soulja’s post argues that Gucci Mane was actually the first rapper to do so when he released The Cold War trilogy—Great Brrritain, Brrrussia, and Guccimerica—only weeks before on Oct. 17, 2009.
Complex senior news writer Trace William Cowen looks into all the artists who have released three projects at once.
While it’s unknown if Drake took inspiration from Soulja Boy or Gucci Mane, the Canadian rapper certainly made history of his own with his three albums by becoming the first artist in Billboard history to have three albums take up the top three spots on the Top 200, and earned yet another No. 1 song on the Hot 100, breaking Michael Jackson’s record for the most No. 1 hits by a solo male artist.
