SGA Says Drake Is the Greatest Rapper of All Time: 'All the Older Guys Go Crazy... It's Not a Hot Take'

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander says Drake is the greatest rapper of all time, and he knows the old heads won't like it. In his Spotify Heat Check interview, the Thunder star said, "Whenever I say like Drake's the greatest rapper of all time, like all the older guys like go crazy, but that's about it.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander says Drake is the greatest rapper of all time, and he knows the old heads won't like it. In his Spotify Heat Check interview, the Thunder star said, "Whenever I say like Drake's the greatest rapper of all time, like all the older guys like go crazy, but that's about it. It's not a hot take." Asked about his Drake album rankings, SGA said he'd redo his list with Take Care and Nothing Was the Same at 1A and 1B and ICEMAN right underneath, and called ICEMAN the best album of 2026: "I think it has no skips." On the ICEMAN line with his name in it, SGA said he was confused at first and had to play it back, then laughed: "I think it's a great bar. It's genius." The interview is part of SGA's Heat Check playlist on Spotify.