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ICEMAN REVIEW (A🧵)

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Top albums of 2026 so far:

The Fall-Off by J.Cole
ICEMAN by Drake
Ca$INO by Baby Keem
Moving Towards Love_PINK by REASON
It’s Been Awful By Isaiah Rashad
Octane by Don Toliver
e.t.d.s. A Mixtape by IDK.
It’s Us Vol.2 by Concrete Boys
Piss In The Wind by Joji

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I’ve been listening to Drake for years but unbiased opinion:

Kendrick had a good concept with DAMN. with wickedness v weakness and no matter how you play the album, he gets “killed.”

But take care was Drake’s breakthrough. And changed future music forever

I’d choose Take Care

[Naldss🪖 @OxNalds]

Comparing ‘take care’ to ‘damn’ is like comparing a diamond to a rock .

Take care clears and it is not even close.

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Oh yeah for sure. Cuz whenever I get into the car I always say “Yo put on U” or “put on Wesley’s Theory”

Every Drake album has replay value cuz that’s his talent. Kendrick hasn’t mastered the skill of replay value. The closest he got was with DAMN. And whatever GNX was

[Ray @RayRapOpinions]

To Pimp A Butterfly and it’s not even close.

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Top 10 Songs off ICEMAN/The Fall Off/GNX:

1. Make Them Cry 🧊
2. The Fall Is Inevitable 🪑
3. Whisper My Name 🧊
4. man at the garden 🚗
5. I Love Her Again 🪑
6. Two Six 🪑
7. Make Them Remember 🧊
8. Poor Thang 🪑
9. wacced out murals 🚗
10. 39 Intro 🪑

[ihabs🧊 @ihabs11_]

Top 10 songs between GNX/The Fall Off/Iceman

1. Janice STFU🧊
2. I Love Her Again🪑
3. Poor Thang🪑
4. Whisper My Name🧊
5. 39 Intro🪑
6. Drum N Bass🪑
7. National Treassures🧊
8. Firm Friends🧊
9. The Fall-Off Is Inevitable🪑
10. Make Them Cry🧊

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As someone who is currently listening to all of his discography, the only albums that are carrying his music career are TPAB and GKMC. And maybe DAMN. He has been going downhill in music quality since 2017

[Praise🎀 @Praiseinterests]

What's your unpopular opinion about Kendrick?

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Overall, Drake delivered on this album, giving us good lyrics, good flows and different production that matched the energy and direction he needed to deliver his icy approach. It was a very solid album but not perfect.

It’s his best solo album since Scorpion

FINAL SCORE: 8.4/10

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ICEMAN REVIEW (A🧵)

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Not a Con but note:

There was some repetitiveness on this album. Some tracks like Ran to Atlanta had some repetitive lyrics. Additionally, 8 out of 18 tracks had beat switches which also felt repetitive on this album

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All of these artists have one thing in common: THEY’VE ALL RELEASED SOMETHING THIS YEAR

KENDRICK HASN’T. SO WHY TF IS HE NOMINATED WHEN ALL HES DONE IS GO TO DISNEYLAND?????

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Drake and Kendrick Lamar will be battling for Male Hip Hop Artist of the Year at the BET Awards‼️

Nominees:
▪️Drake
▪️Kendrick Lamar
▪️J. Cole
▪️A$AP Rocky
▪️Baby Keem
▪️BigXthaPlug
▪️DaBaby
▪️Don Toliver
▪️T.I.

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I’ve known this but it’s definitely obvious with this review:

Drake could release the most perfect album ever and Faketano would still find a way to shit on it. But if Kendrick releases something similar he would give it an 8 or 9

Anthony CloutChasing Faketano back at it again

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Anthony Fantano rates Drake's 'ICEMAN' a "light 2":

“With Iceman, Drake can't help but confirm pretty much all of the worst criticisms against him, that he's a duplicitous creep and numbers obsessed clout goblin.”

"The Boy doesn't really have the juice quite like he used to... I think the days of milk and honey, of Drake's stimulus packages, of him being able to shape the mainstream layer of hip-hop merely by dropping a song that goes into a new direction. I think that's all done."

"I don't think Iceman is Drake's worst album, period. But I do think it is his most sorry ass record so far... Like I lost my innocence at the tender age of 40 and now the whole world has to pay. You'll never be seeing my kind side ever again. Like this is a temper tantrum."

🔗: https://t.co/hFDcAfRlhy

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Say what you want but I don’t remember the last time Drake put this much work into an album

He’s never done a rollout like this, he’s never put out 17 music videos, he’s never put out 3 albums in one night

And delivered an album that has one. MAYBE two skips

Drake killed it 🧊

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It’s crazy to think that Drake dropped 3 albums in one night. And he’s still going

SCARY HOURS 4 this summer

And “allegedly” another album later this year 🤔

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Here’s my thoughts:

ICEMAN was the mission and he completed it. HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR were just side quests that felt unfulfilled for me. Did he need the other two albums? Prob not. But they were fun.

Will be listening to ICEMAN on repeat 🧊

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Just finished HABIBTI

That was so painfully average. His singing reminded me of autotune vocals from HM and FATD, and not in a good way. This was not R&B at all. If you want R&B, listen to Peak, Teenage Fever, Girls love Beyonce. Whatever this was, it wasn’t it.

Score: 4/10