By Canadian Press

Drake plays ‘Fortnite’ with ‘Ninja’, helps break record

Mar 15, 2018 | 12:30 PM

LOS ANGELES — Grammy Award-winning rapper Drake helped Twitch break its record for the most-viewed stream by joining gamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins to play “Fortnite.”

There were 630,000 concurrent viewers at its peak on the live-streaming platform Wednesday.

The rapper and singer says he’s been playing the popular video game for a month or two.

He played with “Ninja” and then they were joined by rapper Travis Scott and Pittsburgh Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster.

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