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Drake’s ‘Iceman’ Episode 4 Livestream Ends With Three Albums, Future, and More Kendrick Fallout
Drake’s Iceman livestream episode 4 ended with three albums, Kendrick references, a Future reunion and two more releases promised at midnight.
Drake didn’t just deliver the expected Iceman album on Friday, May 15. He widened the whole operation into a three-LP event, releasing Iceman alongside Habibti and Maid of Honour for a combined 43 tracks. That kind of overdelivery would usually read as a flex on its own, but episode 4 of his Iceman livestream on Thursday night, May 14, already framed the rollout as something closer to a visual album than a standard album tease. It ran for about 75 minutes on YouTube and was shot across Toronto, with cameos from comedian Shane Gillis, DJ Akademiks and Drake’s son, Adonis.
The stream opens on Iceman’s “Make Them Cry,” and Drake wastes no time circling the damage left by his 2024 battle with Kendrick Lamar. “What died back in 2024 was a big piece/ So it’s like this s–t is me, but it isn’t me/ Y’all keep on asking what it did to me/ That’s what it did to me,” he raps while an Iceman truck rolls down the highway. The song also turns personal in a more direct way when Drake reveals that his father, Dennis Graham, is battling cancer: “My dad got cancer right now/ We battling stages/ Trust me when I say there’s things I’d rather be facing.”
DJ Akademiks shows up as a kind of in-house hype man, hosting a radio show and running through the sort of Drake-defending talking points he’s become known for. He says Drake occupies all five spots in his top five, which feels less like an argument than a familiar performance of loyalty. That alignment appears to have paid off. Akademiks later posted a photo of the iced-out OVO owl chain Drake gave him, turning the stream into one more chapter in the ongoing ecosystem around the rapper, where media, fandom and proximity all blur together.
From there, the visual album keeps shifting settings and allegiances. Shane Gillis appears as a police officer alongside Adonis. Drake is cast as a mob boss with his crew outside a government building, then walking through the snow, leaving bloodshed behind him. Chromazz, billed as the First Lady of Toronto, also appears, while Drake shows off a fleet of cherry red exotic sports cars. The whole thing plays like a sequence of regional power fantasies, one Toronto tableau after another.
The most anticipated reunion, though, belongs to Drake and Future. The two, once linked so closely through What a Time to Be Alive, put whatever issues existed aside and reconnect on “Ran to Atlanta” with emerging rapper Molly Santana, who Drake also calls “the new Hannah Montana.” The video appears in the stream. “Me and Hendrix back by popular demand,” he raps, while military Hummers and strippers on poles surround him. The clip flickers between neon-blue light, thermal effects and normal video, a style choice that leans hard into spectacle without losing the fact that this is still very much a score-settling exercise.
That mood continues on “Burning Bridges,” where Drake throws a party for his OVO crew and seems to jab at A$AP Rocky. “Your baby momma ain’t even post a single, damn, where she at,” he raps, before adding, “You saw my brother, you was tryna fix it, now you drop your album and you back dissing.”
Make Them Pay brings even more names into the frame. Rick Ross and DJ Khaled both get called out directly, while Drake also appears to take aim at J. Cole with the line “f–k a big three.” The Ross bar is especially pointed: “Dog, I was aiding Ross with streams before Adin Ross had ever streamed,” he says, a shot that lands with some extra bite given Ross’s comments about Drake during his book tour this week. Khaled catches another stray tied to their 2024 falling out, with Drake pressing him over not speaking up about Palestine. “And Khaled, you know what I mean/ The beef was fully live, you went halal, and got on your deen/ And your people are still waitin’ for a Free Palestine/ But apparently, everything isn’t black and white and red and green,” he raps.
Several previously leaked tracks also make the final cut. “National Treasures,” minus Pressa, and “1 AM in Albany,” now renamed “Make Them Remember,” both appear on Iceman. So does “What Did I Miss?,” the 2025 track that already had its own video, featuring Drake on the back of an Iceman 18-wheeler hauling blocks of ice while wearing a Chrome Hearts trapper hat.
Elsewhere in the stream, New York rapper Stunna Sandy appears during the “Plot Twist” visual, riding in a dune buggy and hanging with Drake. Then comes “2 Hard 4 Radio,” a title that feels a little too aware of itself if the song really does catch on commercially. The West Coast-influenced track includes Mac Dre references, another reminder that Drake still likes to move between regional rap languages even while keeping the spotlight fixed on Toronto.
The final stretch moves through the CN Tower, a strip club, and a government building that houses the mayoral office. Drake ends up at an ice hockey rink, then heads to the studio. For the closing beat, he appears to set a streaming farm on fire, a possible shot at Kendrick Lamar that lands as the latest in a series of barely disguised retaliations.
Those scenes are all pre-taped. The livestream becomes current only at the end, when fireworks light up the Toronto sky and Drake watches in real time. Then comes the escalation: two more albums are on the way, and they’ll arrive in an hour at midnight. By the time the stream ends, the message is clear enough. With 43 tracks across three LPs, Drake isn’t just extending the rollout. He’s trying to turn the whole summer into one long event.
