Drake helped create a moment of game streaming history on Wednesday night.

The world famous rapper joined top streamer Ninja and the pair teamed up to play Fortnite, the popular free-to-play sandbox survival game developed by Epic Games.

Ninja (Tyler Blevins) live streamed the action on Twitch — he looped in Drake’s voice mic via Discord — and broke concurrent streaming records. More than 600,000 people tuned in at once, smashing the previous record of 388,000.

Drake tweeted the Twitch link to his 36.8 million followers.

It was a bit surreal hearing Drake’s voice and watching him play video games. While the two played “Duo” — 50 teams of two players, battling until the last team stands — they also talked about everything from music to food. In between bites of pizza, Drake said he had been playing Fortnite for a few months. The rapper, who also revealed that he no longer eats meat, said he likes to play Fortnite as a way to relax after making music in the studio for 20 hours.

The pair won their first game — Ninja certainly carried the load, but Drake has some impressive skills for a newbie.

Ninja was on PC; Drake played on PS4. Fortnite this week began allowing cross-platform gameplay.

After a few games, Drake — who also likes playing NBA 2K — invited fellow rapper Travis Scott and Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster in the game. Ninja eventually brought in KimDotCom on the team for a 4-person “squad” match.

The action went viral on Twitter. It got the attention of people like former NFL star wide receiver Terrell Owens and rapper Logic. Fellow musician Post Malone voiced his approval for PUBG, the rival battle royale game.

Drake started following Ninja on Instagram last week. Ninja is one of the most popular Fortnite streamers who is making $350,000 per month from Twitch subscriptions. It’s unclear how tonight’s session was organized but much of it seemed organic — just a couple gamers teaming up for some Fortnite action on a Wednesday. Pretty cool, right?

It was a historic moment for the gaming industry, and also for Amazon, which acquired Twitch for nearly $1 billion in 2014. At one point during the stream, Ninja asked viewers to subscribe to Twitch Prime, a bundle of Amazon Prime benefits specifically aimed at gamers.

Twitch counts 15 million daily active users who spend an average of 106 minutes on the platform.

Fortnite, meanwhile, is the most popular multiplayer game right now, with more than 40 million players worldwide.

Like what you're reading? Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headline

Job Listings on GeekWork

Find more jobs on GeekWork. Employers, post a job here.