Travis Scott & Future Join Kendrick Lamar & Drake In Surpassing Staggering 2025 Spotify Milestone

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AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 15: (L-R) Future and Travis Scott attend Fader Fort Presented By Converse on March 15, 2014 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage/Getty Images)
The year-old Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle may still be holding onto relevance, but don't scoff at Future and Travis Scott's hit-making.

Travis Scott and Future have more than a couple of classic collabs under their belt, and some people may have forgotten just how huge these artists are. They recently joined Drake and his rival Kendrick Lamar as the first rappers to surpass 2 billion Spotify streams in 2025, which makes sense given their recent output and exalted catalog. While most of this relates to past material, they did drop some new gems this year that probably contributed to this boost. This includes La Flame's "4X4" single, Pluto's new LISA collaboration, and their various appearances on the new album MUSIC from Playboi Carti and the new Lil Baby album WHAM.

While Kendrick Lamar and Drake's battle is still dominating when it comes to commercial performance and discussion, Future and Travis Scott's accomplishment goes to show how much their art endures and resonates regardless of what they have going on in the moment. Also, speaking of Playboi Carti, we're sure that MUSIC might get him close to this metric at some point in the year, and a few other massive rappers will also follow suit. But in under three months, these artists made their mark very clear.

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What's more is that we might see much more material from Travis Scott and Future later this year. They recently hit up some studio sessions with Lil Baby and Young Thug, and producers Southside and Wheezy spoke on the kind of energy that they are creating. "We just making the best music of our time," the latter remarked during an interview. "Like I said at the beginning of the video, like, real deal superhero group, super producers. We just locked in the studio doing, like, 20 songs a night.

With all this in mind, the "SOUTH OF FRANCE" duo might come through with yet another killer year. Future has three 2024 projects still going strong, Travis Scott has some more heat on the way, and we're sure many more collaborators will loop them into their craft as well. Let's see who else ranks among the most viral and streamed MCs of the year, and if there are any surprises.

About The Author
Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.

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