Drake drops three albums at once, and the crowd goes mild

Just when you think you’re safe, Drake returns to provide a soundtrack for the worst person you know’s Instagram story. The rapper, who has been threatening for months to release his ninth LP Iceman, today dropped two other albums alongside it: Habibti and Maid of Honour. Ever the showman, Drake revealed the triple-release late last night on his YouTube livestream. I suppose encasing Iceman’s release date in a giant block of ice in downtown Toronto, frightening residents with an explosion in the city, spitting out a dedicated web series starring Shane Gillis and Drake’s guerrilla PR guy DJ Akademiks, and “freezing” the city’s CN tower to make it appear ice blue just wasn’t enough. 

Collectively, the albums boast 43 tracks, almost 150 minutes of Drakeisms, and features from Future, Molly Santana, 21 Savage, Loe Shimmy, and Sexyy Red. Drake has kept a low profile following his incredibly high-profile beef with fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar—a beef that, as the public roundly agreed, Drake lost. But now Drizzy is done licking his wounds. The three records are rife with attempted digs at Lamar, Playboi Carti, Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, J. Cole, Jay-Z, Mustard, Pusha T, Pharrell, LeBron James, Demar DeRozan, and Dr. Dre. The most interesting diss is thrown at DJ Khaled, for his refusal to voice support for Palestine, on “Make Them Pay”: “And Khaled, you know what I mean […] And your people are still waitin’ for a Free Palestine. But apparently, everything isn’t black and white and red and green, man.”

Drake hasn’t been out of the spotlight post-“Not Like Us”; that would be decidedly un-Drake of him. Though Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour are his first solo albums since 2023’s For All the Dogs, the rapper collaborated with PartyNextDoor on Some Sexy Songs 4 U last year. In January 2025, he filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group, accusing it of boosting streams on Lamar’s Grammy-winning diss. (It was summarily dismissed.) Iceman, however, is meant to be Drake’s triumphant return to rap royalty. Unfortunately, the official White House X account has already created an AI version of the album’s cover art, which features Michael Jackson’s signature sparkly glove. 

There is something oddly comforting about the fact that Drake remains trapped in his own cornball time loop. Whether it’s the result of hookah brain damage or just a dogged determination to serve an eternal fanbase of 12-year-olds, I can’t help but respect his commitment to the bit—even if it means having to listen to 149 minutes of his music. Go get ‘em, Drizzy.

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