--- title: Drake Streams Fortnite on Twitch with Travis Scott description: Drake not only broke the Internet but broke a record when he played the video game "Fortnite" with Travis Scott, and Juju Smith-Schuster. canonical: https://time.com/5201151/drake-fortnite-livestream/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-15T16:11:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:25.426Z og:title: Drake Broke the Internet By Playing a Video Game og:description: What a time to be alive og:url: https://time.com/5201151/drake-fortnite-livestream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa1a7e02960871f3/69892aedfb4eac7c7d896092/drake-plays-fortnite-memes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4146 og:image:height: 2332 og:image:alt: red carpet for the movie, "The Carter Effect" at the Winter Garden and Elgin Theatres during the Toronto International Film Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Drake Broke the Internet By Playing a Video Game twitter:description: What a time to be alive twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa1a7e02960871f3/69892aedfb4eac7c7d896092/drake-plays-fortnite-memes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Leave It to Drake to Break the Internet By Playing a Video Game With a Star-Studded Squad > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 15, 2018 4:11 PM UTC  TORONTO, ON- SEPTEMBER 9 - Drake at the red carpet for the movie, "The Carter Effect" at the Winter Garden and Elgin Theatres during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. September 9, 2017\. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images) TORONTO, ON- SEPTEMBER 9 - Drake at the red carpet for the movie, "The Carter Effect" at the Winter Garden and Elgin Theatres during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. September 9, 2017\. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images) Steve Russell—Toronto Star via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 15, 2018 4:11 PM UTC [Drake](http://time.com/4714948/drake-early-career/) not only [broke the Internet](http://time.com/5042885/drake-basketball-meme/) but broke a record when he streamed himself playing the video game Fortnite on Twitch (a game-streaming platform) with internet personality Ninja, rapper Travis Scott, and NFL player, Steelers wide receiver Juju Smith-Schuster on Wednesday night. The [“God’s Plan”](http://time.com/5119127/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-39/) rapper teamed up with Ninja, a noted Fortnite Twitch streamer for a game, that eventually set a new record for the most concurrent viewers on a single stream for the streaming service at more than 600,000 — no doubt, thanks in part to Drake, who plays under the name “theboyduddas,” tweeting out the link to the game. Drake mentioned during the stream that he’s been practicing his Fortnite skills while taking breaks from working on his new album. > [](https://twitter.com/Drake/status/974147677662298112) It also definitely helped that famous friends Travis Scott and Juju Smith-Schuster also joined the fun and tweeted about it. > [](https://twitter.com/TeamJuJu/status/974208898323308544) > [](https://twitter.com/TeamJuJu/status/974213247346753536) > [](https://twitter.com/trvisXX/status/974199250677465089) As might be expected, the Internet lost their collective minds over Drake’s new past time and took to the web to share their feelings about it. Some people were tickled by what it meant for Drake to being playing a game like Fortnite. > [](https://twitter.com/Anti/status/974145991816499201) > [](https://twitter.com/brocatoalex7/status/974173513153175554) While others imagined what Drake’s new album cover would look like. > [](https://twitter.com/FortniteRoyaIe/status/974297181736882176) Others still were in awe of him breaking a record while playing the game. > [](https://twitter.com/YoungMoneySite/status/974271743643783169) Chrissy Teigen, as usual, had a hilarious response to the Internet’s freakout. > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/974176078347476992) Watch highlights from Drake’s Twitch Fortnite stream below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5201151/drake-fortnite-livestream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5201151/drake-fortnite-livestream/"},"headline":"Leave It to Drake to Break the Internet By Playing a Video Game With a Star-Studded Squad","datePublished":"2018-03-15T16:11:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:25.426Z","description":"What a time to be alive","url":"https://time.com/5201151/drake-fortnite-livestream/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa1a7e02960871f3/69892aedfb4eac7c7d896092/drake-plays-fortnite-memes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa1a7e02960871f3/69892aedfb4eac7c7d896092/drake-plays-fortnite-memes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"red carpet for the movie, \"The Carter Effect\" at the Winter Garden and Elgin Theatres during the Toronto International Film Festival","caption":"red carpet for the movie, \"The Carter Effect\" at the Winter Garden and Elgin Theatres during the Toronto International Film Festival","creditText":"Steve Russell—Toronto Star via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5201151/drake-fortnite-livestream/","name":"Leave It to Drake to Break the Internet By Playing a Video Game With a Star-Studded Squad"}}]}] ```