Drake Drops Triple Album Bomb: 'Iceman,' 'Habibti,' and 'Maid Of Honour' Arrive Simultaneously
Drake surprises fans with a simultaneous release of three new albums: Iceman, Habibti, and Maid Of Honour, totaling 43 tracks and 150 minutes of new music.
For nearly a year now, Drake has been teasing his new album Iceman, but things really escalated in April when he hid the release date for the project inside a giant block of ice in Toronto. This led to a melee and, ultimately, the reveal that the album would drop today, May 15. The fourth episode of his Iceman web series premiered yesterday, with appearances from the vastly different celebrities Shane Gillis and Akademiks.
Then, late last night, Drake dropped a bomb: Not only was Iceman dropping, so were two more new Drake albums, Habibti and Maid Of Honour. All told, that's 43 new tracks adding up to 150 minutes of new music. The Hot 100 is going to be extremely Drake-saturated about 10 days from now. I'm not reviewing the albums in this post, but it's to his credit that even after his embarrassing loss to Kendrick Lamar in their 2024 beef and his even more embarrassing legal campaign against Universal Music Group in 2025, he's regained enough swagger that even Iceman alone felt like an event, let alone a triple-album drop.
The albums offer different flavors of the Drake experience. Iceman seems to be your standard big-ticket Drake album, a 69-minute odyssey spent largely reacting to the fallout from his 2024 feud with Kendrick Lamar. The pointedly titled "Run To Atlanta," a reference to a line from "Not Like Us" about how Drake is a culture vulture who attempts to siphon off street cred from Atlanta rappers, finds him reuniting with Atlanta legend Future, whose Kendrick collab "Like That" kicked off K-Dot war campaign two years ago. Molly Santana is also on "Run To Atlanta," and Drake's old pal 21 Savage pops up on "B's On The Table." Otherwise there are no more guests, so that's already toxic amounts of Drake density before we get to the other two records.
In terms of other beefs, on "Make Them Pay," Drake calls out former friend DJ Khaled, a Palestinian, for his silence on Palestine: "And, Khaled, you know what I mean/ The beef was fully live, you went halal and got on your deen/ And your people are still waitin' for a free Palestine/ But apparently everything isn't black and white and red and green." And on "2 Hard 4 The Radio," he makes sure to mention old sparring partner Pusha T's appearance in the Epstein files: "Damn, y'all was really island hoppin' back then/ Huh, now y'all names got redacted."
Habibti is the R&B offering, not unlike last year's PARTYNEXTDOOR team-up Some Sexy Songs 4 U. It's much shorter, just 11 songs over 36 minutes, and its guest list includes PARTYNEXTDOOR (naturally), Sexyy Red, Loe Shimmy, and Qendresa. Clocking in at 14 tracks and 45 minutes, Maid Of Honour leans into dancier sounds a la Honestly, Nevermind, with some of the international flavor of More Life. It's where the Central Cee collab "Which One" landed. It also has Popcaan, Stunna Sandy, Iconic Savvy, and another Sexyy Red appearance.
There's so much music to digest here, and you'd have to be a pretty big Drake fan to consume it all at once. But if you so choose, all three new albums are embedded below.
Iceman, Habibti, and Maid Of Honour are out now via OVO/Republic.
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