From DJ Khaled to Kendrick Lamar: Everyone Drake Appears to Diss on 'Iceman'

Three albums in one night

Drake premiered Iceman during a livestream on Thursday, May 14, and then revealed he had three albums ready to drop the following day. According to Billboard, the three projects are Iceman, Maid of Honour, and Habibti. The last two lean toward R&B and dance and are aimed at a different corner of his audience, while Iceman is the main event: bar-heavy, introspective, and urgent in a way that Drake has not sounded in years.

Iceman is his ninth studio LP, and the weight of the past two years is all over it. The Kendrick Lamar battle and the backlash that followed clearly left a mark. On opener "Make Them Cry," he admits as much: "What died back in 2024 was a big piece / So it's like this s-- is me, but it isn't me."

The list of targets

Drake does not hide who is in his crosshairs. Billboard identifies the apparent targets as ranging from DJ Khaled and Rick Ross to Kendrick Lamar himself. Beyond the beefs, Drake also touches on his ongoing lawsuit against UMG and reveals that his father is currently battling cancer.

Not everything on Iceman is war. He reunites with Future on "Ran to Atlanta," noting that "me and Hendrix back by popular demand," signaling that the two have put their reported differences aside.

Context

For a rapper who spent over a decade at the top, the past couple of years have been a public reckoning. Iceman reads less like a comeback record and more like a settlement of accounts, delivered by someone who feels he has been waiting long enough to respond. Whether the music shifts the narrative is a separate question, but the ambition and the willingness to be vulnerable while still swinging are hard to ignore.