Highlights
- Drake surprise-dropped three albums: Iceman, Maid of Honour & Habibti simultaneously at midnight
- The trio totals 43 songs with features from Future, 21 Savage, Sexyy Red & Central Cee
- It’s Drake’s first solo music since his 2024 rap battle loss to Kendrick Lamar
Nobody told Drake to take it easy.
The Toronto rapper didn’t just drop one long-awaited comeback album Friday night. He dropped three. At the same time. Because apparently that’s just how Drizzy does things now.
Drake released his highly anticipated new album, Iceman, at midnight ET, along with two surprise records, Maid of Honour and Habibti, sending the internet into a full-on meltdown and crashing streaming platforms almost instantly.
Together, the package makes up a gargantuan 43 songs, and the trilogy includes features from Future, 21 Savage, Molly Santana, Stunna Sandy, Sexyy Red, Central Cee, Popcaan, Iconic Savvy, Loe Shimmy and PARTYNEXTDOOR.
Yeah, he went all in.
At the end of the Iceman livestream, Drake pulled out three hard drives, and text on the screen revealed: “I made this so that I could make this.” Two more album titles then flashed on screen, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Iceman boasts 18 tracks and features 21 Savage, Molly Santana and a reunion with Drake’s “What a Time to Be Alive” collaborator Future. Maid of Honour contains 14 songs and collaborations with Stunna Sandy, Central Cee, Sexyy Red, Iconic Savvy and Popcaan. Habibti has 11 new songs and lifts from Sexyy Red once again, Loe Shimmy and Partynextdoor.
The rollout for all of this has been nothing short of theatrical. In late April, Drake revealed the release date for “Iceman” by setting up blocks of ice in Toronto as a promotional vehicle for the record. Inside the ice was a bag that contained the release date, which was discovered by a streamer named Kishka who retrieved the bag and headed to Drake’s house, where he opened the contents to reveal the date. Only Drake.
Drake’s ninth, 10th and 11th studio albums serve as his first since clashing with Kendrick Lamar in 2024. And that beef is clearly still on his mind.
Lines like “Your baby momma ain’t even post a single, damn, where she at?” re-hash the claims made in Drake’s string of diss tracks from 2024. He also appears to claim that members of Kendrick’s team attempted to bury the hatchet. “You saw my brother, you was tryna fix it, now you drop your album and you back dissing,” Drake raps.
The stakes here couldn’t be higher. If Iceman or any of the other pair of albums top the Billboard 200, that will give Drake a record 15 No. 1s, which would break a tie with Jay-Z when it comes to rappers. Drizzy also has the opportunity to occupy the top three of the Billboard 200 next week, which has only been done in the past by Michael Jackson. He would be the first to hold all three slots with debuts simultaneously.
For those who abandoned their allegiance to Drake after “Not Like Us,” Iceman, Habibti and Maid of Honour are his opportunity to win them back. For those that stayed loyal, they’re a moment to prove to others that the 6 God always had the chops to return to the top.
It’s also worth noting how differently Drake is operating these days. The rapper has made the world of streamers and content creators more central to his output, offering his only public appearances since the beef on platforms like XQC’s and Adin Ross’. Drake is also an investor in Stake, which owns the popular streaming site Kick, where Adin and XQC both stream.
The release follows a turbulent stretch that included a high-profile feud with Kendrick Lamar and a number of lawsuits. Drake’s 2025 lawsuit against Universal Music Group, claiming the label pushed Lamar’s defamatory song, was dismissed by the court, but not before UMG said in a legal filing that Drake had “lost a rap battle that he provoked” and sued “in a misguided attempt to salve his wounds.”
Rough times. But Drake isn’t hiding from any of it.
For everyone else, the apathetic majority, Drake’s return could mean something more: that the rapper still has the power to summon even a fraction of the cultural relevance from his golden years.
All three albums, Iceman, Maid of Honour and Habibti, are streaming now on Spotify, Apple Music and everywhere else. Good luck getting through all 43 tracks before Monday.
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