Drake Wins Billboard Top Artist Award, Breaking Record With 13 Wins

Drake took home 13 awards during Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, also dubbed the most boring award show in the world; it left people asking questions like, “Who is this Dollar Tree Rihanna performing?” Suggested Reading Three Friends Were Headed To A Beyoncé Concert, But One Dies On the Way. Guess What The Other Two…

Drake took home 13 awards during Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, also dubbed the most boring award show in the world; it left people asking questions like, “Who is this Dollar Tree Rihanna performing?”

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Drake’s biggest win of the night came when he won the Top Artist award, beating Adele, Rihanna, Beyoncé, the Chainsmokers, Ariana Grande, Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, Twenty One Pilots and the Weeknd. Seriously, who wasn’t nominated?

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Drake and his Young Money crew were all onstage as he accepted his award, and most noticeably, you saw his father in a Barney-colored suit and with a bottle of liquor.

“I got my whole family up here,” the 30-year-old rapper said in accepting his 13th award of the evening, which made him the artist to win the most Billboard awards in a single night. “Hold tight, Adele, because when a new album drops, you’ll fall back to get the record back.”

Drake also gave a shoutout to the love of his life this week, Nicki Minaj, not to be confused with Rihanna.

At the end of his acceptance speech, Drake bestowed upon the world some lovely advice.

“Someone wise once told me life is like toilet paper,” he said. “You’re either on a roll or you’re taking a shit from someone.”

Today a Drake fan is having that tattooed on his or her torso.

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