Pop Music: Drake and Migos Host a Hitmakers’ Ball

Aug. 24-28 at Madison Square Garden and Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at Barclays Center; ticketmaster.com

Just over a decade into his music career, Drake has proved an invincible force in pop music. The kinds of scandals and feuds that have derailed so many of his predecessors — most recently, a diss track by Pusha T who revealed that early in Drake’s career, he had posed for photos in blackface — barely seem to leave a scratch on his ever-more-global persona. Drake’s most recent release, “Scorpion,” nods to New Orleans bounce music as breezily as the mixtape “More Life” encompassed the sound of London and its specific version of West African diasporic music.

Brushing off challengers and gobbling up diverse musical inspirations, Drake has repeatedly rapped and sung his way to enormous chart and sales success: At this point, he’s breaking his own records. It’s déjà vu all over again as the pop star dominates song of the summer conversations thanks to the viral dance-inspiring “In My Feelings” and ladies’ night anthem “Nice for What.” That omnipresence on the airwaves will be translated into several concerts this week at Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center, where he will be joined by fellow urban radio hitmakers Migos. NATALIE WEINER