Drake Drops Surprise Triple Album: 'Iceman,' 'Habibti,' and 'Maid Of Honour' Arrive After Lamar Feud

After two years, Drake fans can rejoice. The rapper has finally released his new album Iceman, featuring cameos from Shane Gillis and DJ Akademiks.

At the end of the Iceman livestream, Drake revealed three hard drives, with text on the screen stating: “I made this so that I could make this.” Another display showed the titles of two more surprise albums: Habibti and Maid Of Honour. All three LPs simultaneously dropped on Friday.

The back-to-back records arrive with mountains of anticipation, as Drake’s first solo album after his 2024 feud with Kendrick Lamar, whose diss track “Not Like Us” won multiple Grammys and reframed the chart-topping rapper’s public image.
Drake Album Art

After years of speculation, the album offers fans a window into how Drake felt about the highly publicized battle. The LP features production from longtime collaborator Noah “40” Shebib as well as a host of names including Overkst, OK, and more. Future and rising star Molly Santana show up as well. Previous episodes of Drake’s livestream included the songs “What Did I Miss?” as well as “National Treasure,” which both appear on the album.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar

Drake does not mince words about his feelings on Lamar and the earth-rattling diss track “Not Like Us,” which cast Drake in a negative light. An understandably angered Drake takes multiple opportunities to poke at Kendrick’s public image with lines like “White kids listen to you cuz they feelin’ some guilt,” as well as lines appearing to claim that 100 million streams for Lamar disappeared from the count, contributing to his ongoing claims that UMG engaged in fraudulent bot-ing to boost the song’s popularity.

Other 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.

Iceman lands in the long shadow of the industry-wide beef that began with Metro Boomin and Future’s We Don’t Trust You, and the single “Like That,” featuring Lamar. Last month, Drake revealed the album’s release date by installing it inside a giant ice sculpture in downtown Toronto, which was retrieved and revealed by Twitch streamer Kishka. The rapper has made the world of streamers and content creators more central to his output of late, offering the only 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.

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