Drake's 'ICEMAN' officially debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 463K first-week units 🏆
▫️ Drake's fifteenth #1 album, the most of any rapper
▫️ His biggest debut since 'Certified Lover Boy'
▫️ The biggest debut for a rap album since Travis Scott's 'UTOPIA'
@Aric333@BroWire_ This clip is complete satire, RaKai was trolling at the of his segment with the prison doctor. The clip is cut short where he says he’s joking and he also donates his own money to the prison doctor.
Drake's "Make Them Cry" officially breaks the all-time record for biggest streaming day for a hip-hop song in global Spotify history (13.2 million).
It surpasses Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us".
My thoughts on all three of Drake’s new albums:
(take this with a grain of salt, I know it hasn't even been 24 hours)
ICEMAN:
This is literally all I wanted from a Drake album. I pretty much saved every song from here and is clearly the standout from the bunch. To me, we got to see Drake show off his versatility as a rapper here, working with different styles of production and not boxing himself in some ways that he has in the past. He has a chip on his shoulder and that is when he is at his best as a writer. He didn't drag it but I liked the way he addressed some of what happened in 2024. 'Whisper My Name', 'Make Them Cry', and 'Plot Twist' are some of his best songs I've heard in over half a decade. This is gonna be on repeat all year I already know.
HABIBTI:
There are definitely Drake fans out there that enjoy this side of him more than I do. I feel like I'm more picky when it comes to his R&B records and this album kind of underwhelmed me. Tracks like 'High Fives' and 'Gen 5' are major standouts for me and are more in the lane of what I really like from him in this element. I will for sure spin this back I can see it growing on me. I don't wanna say too much else based on one listen... but I am not a fan of the features, there was so much wasted potential with placements on this album.
MAID OF HONOUR:
I'll keep it real, I don't think I can fully appreciate this one while listening in my room at 10:30am lmao. I need to hear this outside and feel the energy in a crowd setting. That being said, I don't really think I'm gonna listen to this much compared to the other two at least for now. I just think it's unfair to just straight up call it ass lol
"One snitch, two snitch, red bitch, blue bitch. This one got a little GNX, my homie got a big BMX. Say! What a lot of disses there are!"
— Drake on Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole ("1AM in Albany") 👀