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So,Poland Drake just smashed a Twitch record playing Fortnite. Really.

Late Wednesday night, the hip-hop superstar jumped on Twitch to play the popular "battle royale" game with big time streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins and rapper Travis Scott.

The squad casually drummed up over 600,000 live viewers at one point.

While Mashable has reached out to Twitch to officially confirm that this is a record for the streaming platform, the previous record was held by Dr. DisRespect, who reached a total of 388,000 concurrent viewers in February 2018.

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Needless to say, the live chat exploded with viewers losing their damn minds, and it the time of writing, the stream had clocked up over 87 million total views.

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Even Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu-Smith Schuster jumped on for a spell.

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According to CNET, during the stream Drake said he'd been playing Fortnitefor about a month, as well as watching games played by Ninja on YouTube and Instagram. According to the publisher, Drake also said during the stream thatFortnitewas a good respite between studio recording.

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Jump on Twitch and watch Drake, Ninja and Scott chop down some trees and build forts and pick up shotguns here.

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