For everyone who has wanted a straight rap album from Drake, this may be the closest you ever get and it couldn’t come at a better time. ICEMAN, one of three LPs he shared on Friday (May 15), features all of the pettiness, vengeance, luxurious flexes and responses that fans could want.

The 18-track album also hosts the reunion with his long-time running buddy Future, a major look for Molly Santana, and another addition to his hefty catalog of collaborations with 21 Savage. ICEMAN is a pleasant reminder of how gifted the Toronto superstar is when his back is against the wall and people doubt him.

For most of the 2020s, he was on cruise control while at the top of the game. Then, in 2024, it seemed like the entire world turned against him. Kendrick Lamar took shots on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That,” while Ye, The Weeknd, Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, and even Jack Dorsey stood in opposition. Countless fans came out of the woodwork to reveal long-time vitriol they held for the rapper. And when Kendrick and Drake’s back-and-forth culminated with “Not Like Us,” people screamed about how he was a colonizer, an “OVHoe” and a pedophile.

Fortunately, The Boy is resilient, as seen in Summer 2018 when Pusha T defeated him in their beef and he went on to release several chart-topping hits on Scorpion. ICEMAN finds him in a similar position, but hits weren’t the goal. Drake displays a hunger that we haven’t heard from the record-breaking tal

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