Drake’s long-teased Iceman rollout ended Friday with more music than most fans were expecting. As opposed to simply dropping what would’ve been his ninth studio album, Drizzy released a bona fide trilogy in Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour, all released simultaneously at midnight. The collective 43 songs mark Drake’s first solo full-lengths since 2023’s For All the Dogs, and a follow-up to his 2025 PartyNextDoor collaboration, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U.
The reveal happened during the fourth installment of Drake’s ongoing Iceman livestream series, which aired Thursday night. During the stream, he unveiled that the hotly anticipated album would arrive alongside two additional projects. After Drake pulled out three hard drives, on-screen text reading, “I made this so that I could make this,” appeared onscreen before the additional album titles appeared.
The night started with Drake’s YouTube channel going live at 9:45, sharp. The livestream opened with a cinematic sweep through Toronto, as the camera panned around the city’s iconic CN Tower. Iceman’s opening track, “Make Them Cry,” introduces Drake in an introspective, personal mood that courses throughout the project, addressing his father’s cancer diagnosis and setting a reflective tone before the rollout widened into spectacle. From there, the stream moved through a series of visual set pieces. DJ Akademiks appeared early on, delivering a monologue aimed at Drake’s critics and online detractors. In another surreal sequence from the “Dust” video, Shane Gillis sat in the back of a cop car while Drake’s son Adonis drove, one of several bizarre comic interludes that broke up the music-video sprawl.
