Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The rapper and singer Drake is arguably the biggest star in current hip-hop. Now he's released one of the biggest musical events of the summer. It's a 25-track double album called "Scorpion." It went platinum the day it came out and broke streaming records on both Spotify and Apple Music. Rock critic Ken Tucker says Drake's new work is both downbeat and very much what people want to hear right now. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "AFTER DARK") DRAKE: (Singing) Yeah. After dark - in a whip so low. No one's got to know. After dark - knocking at your door. I don't got to work anymore. After dark - you can put your phone down. You're going to need two hands. After dark - you can't get enough. Girl, you know I set it up for after dark. Late night like Left Eye, I'm creeping. KEN TUCKER, BYLINE: Drake takes pride in the quality and variety of his own moodiness. He presents himself as being unceasingly
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