Fairly KickAss Podcast REWIND - One Song: Drake

Ass-Kickers! There was a bit of news on the music front today. (Wednesday 5/28/2025, a date that was absolutely not backdated to account for an episode that was posted late, couldn't be us, nope.) Specifically, the record for the most RIAA Diamond Certifications by one artist was set. For reference, here's the qualification, according to Wikipedia:500,000 units: Gold album1,000,000 units: Platinum album2,000,000+ (in increments of 1,000,000 thereafter) units: Multi-Platinum album10,000,000 units: Diamond albumThe article goes on to state that a "unit" is either a physical/digital album sale; a download of ten tracks from the album; or a total of 1500 on-demand audio or video streams of tracks from the album.By these measures, there has been only one artist to ever earn ten of these Diamond classifications... and that artist, believe it or not, is Drake. (I know, we're kinda shocked too.) But ultimately it's not the RIAA's clasification that matters; rather, it's up to what us three podcast jerks decide.Thus: a One Song, which is actually a REWIND episode that was originally posted in June of 2023. We said the following at the time:"Whether you refer to him as Drizzy, Champagne Papi, the 6 God, Francisco Mandarin, October's Very Own (that's what OVO stands for?? I'll be damned), Mr OVOXO, Young Sweet Jones, Mr. Damn He Aint' Coppin That Is He?, The Reason Why You Always Getting Faded, The Only 23 Year Old Wine Connoisseur (not anymore you 36-year-old crustbucket), '91 Dan Marino, or simply, Aubrey… he's certainly made his mark on the industry in a huge way. And he's also made his mark on this here episode of the Fairly KickAss podcast."Since this was recorded, some less-than-savory things have come out about Drake, which have certainly soured us - and many others! - a bit from where we once were. But it was still a good episode, with good conversation, and we still wanted to share it, without nary a minor update in post to speak of.So please check it out, and let us know what you think!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.socialInstagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickassTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickassThreads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickassWebsite (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/Next week: remember to drive two miles an hour throughout the entire season, so everybody sees you. Unless you don't want to be perceived, at which point maybe sit back and unwind instead. Either way, you got options in the summer, and we'll talk about some of them.And while we recognize that you might have options in all seasons for podcast listening, we still have to request - no matter you listen to us or not - that you Keep. Kicking. Ass.