Drake released three albums at once at midnight ET on Friday, May 15 — Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour — 43 songs in total, via OVO Sound and Republic Records. It is the largest single-day release of his career. Iceman, the project the 10-month rollout was named for, runs 18 tracks and 69 minutes, with features from Future, Molly Santana, and 21 Savage. It is Drake's first solo studio album since For All the Dogs in 2023, and his first full-length release since Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" reshaped the back half of his career.
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The facts
- Release: 12 AM ET, Friday May 15, 2026
- Labels: OVO Sound / Republic Records
- Three albums: Iceman (18 tracks), Habibti (11 tracks), Maid of Honour (14 tracks) — 43 songs total
- Iceman runtime: roughly 69 minutes
- Features on Iceman: Future and Molly Santana ("Ran To Atlanta"); 21 Savage ("B's On The Table")
- Album number: Iceman is Drake's ninth solo studio album
Three albums, one night
The headline isn't the album — it's the volume. Drake didn't release Iceman; he released Iceman plus two more full-length projects at the exact same minute, 43 songs in a single drop. It is a deliberate counter-strategy. Where a focused 12-track album invites a focused verdict — the kind of verdict the Kendrick feud delivered — three albums and 43 songs spread the conversation thin enough that no single track has to carry the reset. It also functions as raw catalog math: more songs, more streams, more chart entries, and a release too large for any one narrative to frame. Here is how the three break down.
Iceman — 18 tracks
The flagship and the rap record. Features from Future and Molly Santana ("Ran To Atlanta") and 21 Savage ("B's On The Table"), with "What Did I Miss?" — the July 2025 lead single — landing at track 11. The cover is a rhinestoned gloved hand throwing an OK sign, a direct Michael Jackson tribute. This is the project carrying the rollout's name, its iconography, and most of its feud-facing material.
Habibti — 11 tracks
The shortest and most personal-sounding of the three — habibti is Arabic for "my love." Features from Sexyy Red ("Hurrr Nor Thurrr"), Loe Shimmy ("I'm Spent"), and PARTYNEXTDOOR ("Fortworth"), with tracks including "WNBA," "Slap The City," and "Gen 5." The cover frames a woman's eyes through layers of masking tape — concealment and revelation as the visual idea.
Maid of Honour — 14 tracks
The most feature-dense and the most family-coded. Guests include Central Cee ("Which One"), Popcaan ("Amazing Shape"), Sexyy Red ("Cheetah Print"), Stunna Sandy ("Outside Tweaking"), and Iconic Savvy ("True Bestie"). Its cover is a double-exposed vintage portrait — a woman holding flowers layered over faint outlines of a young Drake and an older man — the most overtly familial image of the three. This is where "Which One" with Central Cee finally landed, not on Iceman.
One rollout single didn't make any of the three: "Dog House" with Yeat and Julia Wolf, the September 2025 promotional release, was left off all 43 tracks.
The rollout, closed out
The campaign's signature moment came on April 20, when a 25-foot ice block landed in downtown Toronto with the release date and concept art buried inside. Crowds attacked it with pickaxes and hammers until police sealed the area; Twitch streamer Kishka eventually retrieved the waterproof bag, livestreamed the unboxing, and walked away with cash from Drake's team. Frozen courtside seats at Raptors games and the "DRAKE IS ICEMAN" / "FREEZE THE WORLD" / "SAVE OUR CLUBS" vocabulary carried the rest. Drake withheld the cover art, track counts, and the existence of the other two albums entirely until the projects went live — an unusually dark final stretch for an artist built on rollout maximalism, and the reason the three-album scale registered as a genuine surprise.
The post-Kendrick frame
This is the music the industry has been waiting to grade since the summer of 2024. "Not Like Us" went diamond, swept the 2025 Grammys, soundtracked the Super Bowl LIX halftime show, and reshaped what a "winning" rap beef looks like. Drake's response since has been the longest, quietest stretch of his career — a defamation suit against UMG, a tour, and the Toronto-centric $ome $exy $ongs 4 U joint project with PARTYNEXTDOOR in February 2025.
The three albums do not pretend the feud is over. Early coverage from The FADER describes feud-focused material across the trilogy, including a track centered on burning down a pro-Kendrick "bot farm" — a direct extension of Drake's claim that UMG and Spotify used bots and payola to inflate "Not Like Us." The rest leans introspective and R&B-inflected, the lane Drake has always defaulted to when the rap-battle math stops working in his favor.
Forty-three songs in one night is itself the argument: Drake doesn't need a single knockout record, because at this scale his metric was never the knockout — it's the catalog, the streams, and the sheer impossibility of out-publishing him. Three albums at once is that thesis pushed to its limit. Whether it holds as a creative strategy or reads as a quantity flex is what the next chart cycle decides.
Stream the trilogy: Iceman on Apple Music and Spotify. Habibti and Maid of Honour are also out now on both platforms.
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