Drake has released three new albums, ‘Iceman’, ‘Habibti’, and ‘Maid of Honour’, with guest appearances from 21 Savage, Future, Sexyy Red and more.
The Canadian rap star first started teasing new music just hours before the massive drop last night, taking to YouTube for a livestream titled ‘Iceman Episode 4’. In the video, Drake previewed a first-look at several new songs for fans and dropped hints that more music was on the way very soon.
Then, at midnight (Friday May 15), he caught fans off guard by dropping three full albums. On ‘Iceman’, there are 18 songs with titles including ‘Make Them Cry’, ‘Whisper My Name’, ‘Make Them Pay’ and more. Guest features on that record come from Future, Molly Santana and 21 Savage.
Second album ‘Habibti’ comes packed with 11 songs and collaborations with Sexyy Red, PartyNextDoor and Loe Shimmy, and third record ‘Maid Of Honour’ is a 14-song record with appearances from Sexyy Red again, as well as Central Cee, Iconic Savvy, Stunna Sandy and Popcaan.
At first, it seemed like just one Drake album was on the way, and last month the rapper continued teasing his ninth studio record by hiding the release date in a giant block of ice in Toronto.
Before then, he began previewing material by dropping ‘What Did I Miss?’ last July, as well as the Central Cee-featuring ‘Which One’ later that month. The latter of which he debuted during his headline stint at Wireless.
The three new records are Drake’s first studio albums since 2023’s ‘For All The Dogs’ – although he did drop ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ last year, a collaborative record with PartyNextDoor.
The three records are also his first to be released since his all-encompassing beef with Kendrick Lamar, and ensuing lawsuit against Universal Music Group.
In other Drake news, in January the rapper was accused in court of promoting an allegedly illegal online gambling platform and using proceeds to artificially inflate his streaming numbers, and that month also saw A$AP Rocky release a diss track against him, ‘Don’t Be Dumb’.
The latter seemed to be an apparent response to the 2024 track ‘Family Matters’, which one of the many diss tracks traded in the beef with Kendrick Lamar.
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