How was Drake ever going to live up to the hype around Iceman ? He had to do something out of the box. An album teased for months—and one representing his longest break between records—Iceman, in some ways the most important project of his career. This would be the official response to Kendrick Lamar’s onslaught in 2024. On May 15, after years of waiting, he finally dropped Iceman . Then, in an act of pure minimalist craziness, he dropped two additional surprise albums— Maid of Honour and Habibti . In one single day, Drake dropped 41 songs spanning two and a half hours. The starting point, of course, is Iceman . It's easily the best out of the three—a full-on rapping exhibition hyperfocused on the beef with Dot and the fallout, including the perceived friends who left him to fend for himself. Iceman is what 1 vs. 20 sounds like as an album. The second album is Habibti, which is slower, more R&B-based, with hints of a Drake that we have been hearing since So Far Gone .…