Dissect DJs - Drake - Iceman | Full Album Dissected

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

Drake has finally returned to drop 3 brand new albums to air his gripes about the past couple years, and Ryan Castle of the Dissect DJs is on the case ready to dissect his FULL Album - Iceman.Castle goes in on Drake's career retrospective, his peaks and valleys, and listens to each and every track from the Iceman album to determine where it lands on the Slaps Meter. Does it hold up to Drake's best work? Is Drizzy back?? It's a full Iceman summit NEXT!Tracklist: Make Them CryDustWhisper My NameJanice STFURan to Atlanta feat. Future and Molly SantanaShabangMake Them PayBurning BridgesNational TreasureB's on the Table feat. 21 SavageWhat Did I Miss?Plot Twist2 Hard 4 RadioMake Them RememberLittle BirdieDon't WorryFirm FriendsMake Them KnowListeners to this episode may also enjoy: Hip Hop, music review podcasts, Lil Wayne, Young Money, Hotline Bling, Controlla, One Dance, Marvin's Room, HYFR, Nicki Minaj, Lloyd, Scorpions, Views, Take Care, If You're Reading this it's Too Late, What a Time to Be Alive, Drake full album reviews, reaction, rap, Full Album dissect, podcast comedy, music reaction, Best of Drake, Habibti, Maid of Honour, Drake Iceman Full Album reaction.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Sex, sex, teach it, teaching. Yeah. I'm an only child, no one could have made another. I have to father my mother and treat my son's grandfather like my older brother. The skies are gray in Toronto. They're not a golden color. I'm feeling like BTS because it took the whole career for me to be so discovered. I know for sure that my parents, they look at me and see an overcome.

What is up, team? It is Ryan Castle of the Dysk DJs. We had to jump on a little emergency pod here tonight, and by we, I mean me. Because as soon as I heard that Drizzie Drake had a brand new surprise album release. In fact, he had three. That's right, three albums, Made of Honor, Habiti, and Iceman. And I thought, here at the Dolly. Dissect DJs where we like to spin it, mix it, throw it back, and dissect it.

What a great opportunity to jump on a full album review. Just two weeks ago, we did a full album review of Michael Jackson's very first mega album off the wall. Let's keep that album review train going and take a run through Drake's brand new releases, but three albums on a surprise drop is crazy work. So I'm just going to go ahead and review one, and that is Iceman, which is supposed to be more as hip-hop-centric album, apparently, so let's hear what he's got. But real quick on the concept of surprise album releases, which seems to be the norm these days,

how crazy is it that we've come to a point where that's what these major artists do, just to basically catch a buzz. Not long ago, I remember when you watched the VMAs, every major artist was announcing the specific date that their album was released, because back then it really mattered. They wanted their fans get to the store and pick up some. some CDs and they had to let you know. November 10th, the grand jury.

Go to your local Sam Goody and pick that shit up. It was all about the release date and now that nobody cares about exactly when something's coming out, they like to just drop it out of nowhere so that they can buzz the news cycle for at least the next week and that's where we're at.

So, grinding through the graveyard shift to bring you my unfiltered thoughts on each and every one of Drake's brand new release tracks on Ice Man. As I'm looking at the rundown, we got 18 tracks here, man. This is going to, this. I might have to run through some of these quickly as our official third full album review.

The first one being Taylor Swift's surprise album release, probably like four years ago when she did folklore. And then like I said, two weeks ago, we did Michael Jackson's off the wall. Let me start here. You just heard track one that was called Make Them Cry. And let me just go ahead and play the very first part of that song again because I'm going to keep. tally of something as I go through these. If you can go ahead and count along with me on this, it's an epidemic that I hear in hip-hop and I have been for years, and that is the first sound you make on a track. Drake has a signature sound that he likes to say. It sounds something like this.

Let's go ahead and run that one back. There it is. Yeah. It's got to be a word that's something in the half a syllable variety. So here's what I want to do as I dissect Drake's Iceman album. I'm just going to keep a tally of how many of the 18 tracks does he begin with some sort of half a syllable. Yeah. Something of that ilk, you know? All right. So we'll keep an eye on that. But like I said, that first song called Make Them Cry.

Not a bad beat to kick it off. So right away, we're getting an establishment of this is going to be somewhat of a chill mix. I like that beat coming in. It's a good smooth layup. It's definitely just a good song you can vibe too. First verse he dropped is, I'm an only child. No one could have made another. I don't know that makes sense, Drake.

I don't think Only Childs worked that way. Some real solo child syndrome there, to be honest. So I understand the point he was getting across. And I'm going to let him have this one. I'm not going to go through every lyric of this album because that would be absurd. But I definitely get the feel that Drake is out for lyric justice with this one. He's trying to make some points with it. The other line that jumped out to me was I'm feeling like BTS

because it took the whole career for me to be so discovered. Shout it to Korea. All right. I don't know why it took that long for Seoul to discover Drizzy, but it doesn't seem like it took that long for them to discover BTS. Maybe not a good comparison, but we're moving on. Here's what I'm looking for on this album. Obviously, Drake's coming in dropping 18 tracks on this one album,

along with two others at the exact same time. This is definitely not going to be a quality over quantity mix right here. Okay, when you're dropping that many songs at the same time with three albums, you're trying to impress us with sheer volume. And I don't think Drake needs to do that. I'm just going to say that up front. We have to respect Drake as the most enduring, consistent artist that we've really had in the last two decades.

I actually think he stands the top of the mountain on that. Even if you hate Drake, you have to appreciate the fact that this man has put out hits consistently for damn near two decades now. He's always in the mix for top songs of the year. And I know this because, as some of you may know, since 2012, I've been putting together a music video mix of the top songs of every single year. Put them out on the YouTube channel at Rycastle. Go check them out. The Jam Wagon Mega Mix where I combine everything that happened in that year. And in doing those, I have become very aware of which songs live in which year.

When I hear them, I'm like, oh, that was a 2013 song because I remember where I put in the music video. Oh, that song's 2018. And something that I noticed is I did that for over 10 years. There was one artist who was featured on every single end of the year mix. I'd say from when I started 2012 all the way to about, I'd say, 20, 23. And that was Drake. He was the only one. He had a song in every single one of those years.

And not only did he slip one in, but it would have been like weird if I didn't include it. That's how big. He always had a song in the mix that was like top five most relevant. songs of the year. And you got to just tip your cap to that. Just being able to reinvent your music, being able to stay with the times of what is playable, what is at the top, the billboard charts, and just the sound that people actually want to listen because nobody's going to give you that, no matter how big of an artist you are or how popular you are, you need to actually come with music that people legit want to listen to if you're going to end up with a song that is like the

most played song, at least in the mix of that, every single year. And Drake has done that. So So that being said, I don't think he needed to release three albums at once. And this one alone has 18 tracks. I'm not to speed run through this. That's for sure. But I did want to give a real quick retrospective of Drake. As long as I'm talking about him, because we have not really discussed Drake on this podcast much at all.

We've actually only dissected one Drake song in the entire history of this podcast. And believe it or not, that was the tosy slide all the way back to episode 18. You know what's cool I actually just Googled that information You know AI Google search Can be good for some stuff Which episode number Was Drake's Tusi Slide

And I like DJ's episode 18 So we can use that from now on We don't have to just guess But yeah, it's been that long Since we've actually covered Drake So because we haven't covered him I did want to just do a quick retrospective On the history of Drake

While I'm at it So Drake really First appeared in most of our lives In 2010 when he was featured on Young Monies bedrock track, which is a song that I've talked to Justin for years about how I'd actually love to dissect because it's an incredible display of the future of hip hop being flexed on by Lil Wayne and his young money team, just showing that he had created this stable of up-and-coming artist that he was really just releasing onto the world in a single track, which at the time

probably just sounded like a fun hip-hop jam, and it was. But in that track, we got features from Drake, Nikki Minaj, Tyga, and And Lloyd. All of those artists right there, except for Lloyd, had never even really released a full album yet. Really just an awesome showcase of what was to come in hip hop that was really going to dominate the next decade. I seen him standing line just to get beside her.

I let us see the Ashton and let the rest surprise her. That's when we disappear. You need GPS to find her. Oh, that was your girl. I thought I recognized. Ooh, baby, I'd be stuck to you like glue, baby. Want to spend it all on. But then Drake's main roster debut really came when he released.

Thank me later in 2010. And that album fired into the atmosphere. Had some huge tracks like Find Your Love, Miss Me, Fancy. But really what Drake established at this point was that he was an elite featured artist. You could get Drake to crush one verse on your track and he would kill it. In the early days of this podcast, I established something called the Third Verse Hall of Fame, which I haven't brought up on here in a while. Maybe it's because there hasn't been any candidates.

But the concept behind the Third Verse Hall of Fame, though, was when that one artist comes on and just annihilates that last verse. Snoop Dogg was a legend at this. Kanye was a lead at this. Ludacris. Just those artists who you already heard a couple of verses and you got to feel for what the song is, but then it gets that third verse and they're just going to take it up here. It's just going to get elevated because they're just going to.

knock it out of the park. Drake immediately became an artist that you wanted to have featured on either the first verse or the third verse of a track, wherever he fit in, and he annihilated it every time. And then he dropped Take Care in 2011, which had songs like headlines, the motto, Take Care, Marvin's Room, Make Me Proud. Hifer, hell yeah, fucking right. So many tracks off that album. So now it was like Drake is running the game. and his next several albums that he released with Young Money continued to dominate the industry. In 2015, he had, if you're reading this, it's too late, 2016 views, 2018, Scorpion. All of those albums were completely loaded with tracks that dominated the play charts,

really on every level. He was going to be heard, and at this point, everybody knew Drake, and he was at the top of the game. After 2018, he splits off from Young Money. Has some other good albums, continues to make hits, but I will say that the undefeated dominance did feel like it started to wane a little bit. On top of that, he started to have a little bit of a reputation, maybe a little bit of a cornball, maybe a little too cheesy,

maybe a little too full of himself. Maybe we're all a little tired of hearing from him. These are not my thoughts. These were just starting to, like, filter up within the industry's thoughts. You heard the rumblings, you heard the whispers. But never stop putting out hits. And like I said, at the end of every year, you had to look at which songs were the ones that were most synonymous with that year. There was a Drake song that had to be mentioned.

Then we get to 2024 where he picked a fight with a wrong dude. And for the first time in years, a hip-hop beef could not be ignored by the general mass of pop culture. When he got on the wrong side of the tracks with Kendrick Lamar. Now, there are two things about Kendrick that Drake couldn't punch back. two. One, he was an elite rapper, highly respected in the game from everybody in industry and the real hip hop heads. Two, he was fucking ruthless. And as soon as he sunk his teeth into Drake, he did not let him go, like a Rottweiler who just gets his teeth chomped into his victim. And his disc track on Drake, not like us, ends up being that song that I was talking about earlier when

there's the one song that you cannot ignore from that year. That was not like us. Playing everywhere around the world all the way to the Super Bowl where Kendrick was taking the main stage as the headliner of the halftime show turning his head to the camera saying hey Drake are you like I'm young could not deny the beat down that Kendrick had provided to him and Drake more or less slunk away from the public view which I'd say was the right move but real quick while I'm on that topic that being the last time that we really heard from Drake over the last year was Kendrick saying that about him, creating that buzz about his background and calling that into question. I do notice that Drake's album cover for Iceman is an homage to Michael Jackson's one-gloved hand

with a sequence on it, kind of throwing up the trace. And I'm just going to say, if you're coming back from that beat down where those allegations were rocketed at you, I don't know, that's the person you want to throw an homage to in your return album. but I'm just saying, I'm sure that there's far more scholars out there that have a deeper insight to this that will study the album cover and explain why it's actually awesome. I'm just saying that was my first quandary when I looked at it.

Really? You went with a Michael tribute and your return album cover. Okay. All right, you do you, you do you. But I digress. Here's a conversation I have had a lot over the past year. Anytime this subject came up, I've had friends of mine be like, no, I'm done with Drake.

I can never listen to him again. That fool's corny. I'm done with that fool. And what I always say, when it comes to music, you know, as well as I do, all it takes is for them to have one more hit. If next year they throw a song,

I had this exact conversation multiple times last year, if they throw a new song out there and you're like, holy shit, that's fire, that's the best thing I've heard in months, you're going to forget all this shit that you thought about them right now. All the shit you're thinking about right now, you're going to be like, I don't give a fuck. Let play that track again.

When they release a new song, you're ready to give it a try, be like, right, let me hear that song. Okay, let me hear that song. That being said, I have not really listened to this album at all. I've heard rumblings of a song here or there. But that's the idea that leads us now to Iceman here in the year of our Lord, 2026. So we heard track one, make them cry.

I'm gonna play snippets of each one because this episode will take like four hours I've actually wanna play the full track of every one of them. Let's keep it going with track two of y'all. Now that we're all caught up on the Mandurzzi himself. Track two is called Dust. All right, a little gospel fill this one. You should go ahead and pop some corner and grab a stool.

Oh, always about to break some news All the numbers are final No T-shirts, no vinyl You're about to make me Richie like linem For real And that's the truth 16 hours ahead in Melbourne I don't even know what's going on back on straight

Oh, the beat switch up Oh, the beat switch up Go blow the dust on your plaques What was the year that they say yeah it's slabs Because I don't remember it going like that I don't remember one word in your raps I don't know nothing about you and them tracks I gotta be honest

I didn't like the beat switch up there I'm okay with a good beat switch up sometimes but not on that one I was feeling where that was going I was liking that at the beginning of that song I was like this is kind of a cool like a little bit of a gospel feel but it had some cool like elements

had some cool tones to it that I was like all right I kind of hear what you're going you're about to make me Richie like Lionel I like that one then he switched up to the first verse and you know just completely switched up the track I feel like I

I know where that one was going. I felt like it was going to be a lot of that. Look, it's still playing. We can listen to it again. It's already made. I ain't making my mind up. If it wasn't for me, reaching my hand, you never climbed up. All right.

Also, did this song pass the first half a syllable test? Let's play it back. I'm going to count it. Call it. Two for two. I think he said minor. I don't know. It sounded like, now it wasn't quite, yeah.

But, you know, I'm not qualify it. So that's Dust. Next track. Track number three, whisper my name. Oh, sounds sensual. Let's hear who's whispering drink. Up. Hey.

Uh. Three for three on the... Let's keep going. All right. I like that. I look that little. Probably was, but you probably forgot. My white label had to go white label shit when he stepped out of his body and finally got high.

Hand me the truth like I'm picking a lot. Me and white, been kissing a lie. My honor comes from the shit that I did. do for the ones that I love is between them and I. Your Honor comes to the court and the office of pedia so that you could cut out some time. Nowadays, y'all don't want to put in no work. Y'all just won't talk to the front of the line and hurry and run out the nine. Baby boy, please.

I heard what you said to little bro about me. Yeah, and when you run into the ice, man, what you're going to do except freeze. You're not about to squeeze. You're not in the streets. I'm cut off at the knees. There ain't no standing on business with me. If I'm lying, I'm flying economy. Give me a p.

See. If I'm lying, I'm flying. flying economy i bet i know who i see you know how i fly because i land at the beach when you land you can see me all right real quick i'm getting a theme that drake is out for vengeance on this one he wants to talk shit this album definitely feels like i have messages to speak and i'm going to throw them out there um it feels like that's the main thing this one literally after after the initial uh You, eh. Baby boy, please, I heard what you said to a little bro about me.

Oh, you've been talking shit about me behind my back? I've been hearing that, son. You think I didn't hear that? You didn't think I heard it? Streets be talking, I know what you're going to do. And when you run into the ice, man, what are you going to do except freeze? It's a tough talk to say in the studio, Drake. Vague references, veiled shots.

As far as I can see, we don't know exactly who he's talking to. I could guess. I'm sure Drake's got a lot of shots to get off in this one. I'll be honest, he took some bullets the past couple years from the general community and the game itself. Not real bullets. Burble bullets. You know the main guy who did that.

I already called him out, but there was a lot of homies to jump on that bandwagon to just be like, you know what? Yeah, fuck that dude. What we're all throwing logs on the fire? Let me go ahead and toss this one in. Yeah! So he's got a lot of shit he's want to get a lot of shit. he's want to get off the chest and the first three tracks feels like that's a theme that he's going to

but here's what i'm going to need from drake i just need one banger i love two i would take two but i really just want one song off this entire album his entire 18 track album i just want to come away with one and i know you can do this drake because you've been doing it for years for a decade and a half now where you end up putting out a song where I'm like, dude, that's going on the rotation. Get it right in there. Tost the back door open and shove it in there like a Christmas tree. I'm going to play that shit on repeat. I know you have it and you do it because you've done it because it's been a regular

rotational move of Drake to pull that off. So I would love to hear, let me just come away with one track off Iceman that I want to listen to. That's going to make me want to dance. Maybe you can classify it as a clubbanger. Something that's just going to make me be like, Dude, that one right there. Okay, dude, that song's coming with me.

Put that in my pocket with me. So far, he's got some dope chill beats on some of these. I did like how he had that little, like, that sound in that one. That was nice, but I wasn't going to carry a whole track. We're moving on to track number four called Janice. St.FU. Oh, I think I know what those letters stand for.

I think I know. Sounds like Drake still got beef to settle, but let's hear him tell it. So long since you texted me, I finally took a break, and now I feel like I'm on the ecstasy. You said what my word means to me will one day be the death of me. They tried to kill me once, but darling, you just resurrected me. Beach me, baby. Call my phone and say you need me, baby. I'm so green you gotta teach me, baby.

From Vancouver, you'll be a B, C, baby. Pull up, play by B, baby, baby, baby. And my chicken with the East Seats, baby Swet my label got out of free me, baby Blow on me just like some green tea, baby Hey, hey, hey, buried a lot, someone come to date me up. Hey, hey, if I call up your shoddy right now,

she's picking up. Oh, he's going to call your shorthy, he's going to pick it up. All right, there it is, Drake. If Drake wants to know why he's pissed off so many people in this industry in the past, that maybe they got tired of hearing. It's just like, why is Drake always like rapping about how he might be coming for your girl?

Why is that always been a consistent thing for him to lay into? He loves going into that shit, while simultaneously bitching about how the girl that he was fucking with is like not texting him back right now. The combination of those two things that has always been a little hard to swallow with Jersey. I got to be honest. First line of this.

this song. Emiliana, it's been so long since you texted me. Shut up, dude. I don't like when people use their music to, like, send a personal message to, like, one girl who's, like, not fucking with you anymore. And she annoys me, you know? It's, like, a more grand stage equivalent to, like, when somebody, like, post something on Instagram, like, you know, you give somebody so much attention and they just kick it

around and they don't even respect you for it. some bullshit like that where they're clearly like trying to send a message to one person but they're like making a general space except for jake's not even doing he's like literally calling out names he loves calling out names he loves making a very specific thing he literally well actually one of my favorite all time like rmb tracks from drake was marvin's room love that song great beat the entire thing he literally got his ex's voicemail on there and he's like i'm just saying that you could do bad i'll let drake say it he makes it sound better than I will.

Yeah, I love that track, but it's also just Drake having a moan for whatever reason. This girl's moved on and he wants to make a song about it. People get tired of that shit, Drake. This song is called Shut the fuck up Janice. I don't know who Janice is. I'm not going to look it up. What do you do? Beaving it with Janice Dickinson right now?

I don't care. I don't care. This is where Drake loses me when he wants to use his album to make a plea to like one girl. Go to your DMs. Grab one of the fucking thousands that's probably pop it up in there. Go get yourself a bounce back fuck. You don't need to make these songs about, shut the fuck up, Janice. Oh man.

Janice diss me. She didn't text me back. She didn't text me back after our date last year, and I'm still pissed about that. I'm going to put her in a song. Just fucking make a banger, bro. By the way, let's do the one-syllable test. Janice, shut the fuck up. He didn't do it in that one.

went right into bitching about a milliona all right uh so that's three for four on the half syllable test let's go to track five and see where we're out with this one's called ran to Atlanta featuring future and molly santana yeah i'm gonna go ahead and just cut that one off I want to get through the future verse. I'm sure Drake had... You know, I knew where I was going. It just occurred to me that this... We fucking still got 13 more tracks.

I wasn't really feeling that beats. Sounded that's super bass. You know, some of his beats. Just have this... Like, it sounds like something he would have come up with in, like, your Ableton Live back in, like, 2014. You know, I just want to hear if that song ever, like, changes because I know sometimes on these, he, like, changes the beat up.

Does he change this one? He does change it. Alright, this is the same song. Rane to Atlanta. So it started with that future track and then on a different beat. And then it turns into this. Day so down for me, got a pun, you understand, understand, understand, understand, understand. I don't understand, Drake.

I'm bored of that one. I'm sorry. I didn't feel like it was going anywhere. Neither were the future part or that. Let's go to track six. See if we can get some pickup going on this. Shabang. Yeah.

Yeah. Mark it down the list. Yeah. Manich on a beat, shabang. All of my ops, they did. Okay. Why do they gas me up? Where does it go?

My head. How much I got a lot? Don't even gain. I won't. Thinking and trying me do like brice and. Don't. Can I forgive? I can't.

What do I need? Shorty keep asking a date. She's trying to finesse Polly Market for bread. Where's the beef is cooked? Where's the boy? He's books. Don't even recognize none of these things at the top of the charts. I look.

Am I upset a bit? Last one you drop. I did press play on that. Me and me and me skip, skip. What should I take a trip? Who should I take his? Tennis lessons with me. Put a Nike skirt on and that popping out your six.

Hmm. Hmm. Manish on the beat, Shabang. All right, you know what? Good use of pitch change in the chorus. I like what he did there. That beat had some fire to it. That's definitely my favorite song of the album so far.

Shabang. He also got Cuevo on that one. I don't think I got the Cuevo's part. But still bitching about people. You had to know that Drake was coming. He was unloading some clips in the game. We knew that was coming. All of my obbs they did.

Why do they gas me up? Where does it go? My head. Oh, there you go. Too many people have been gassing Drake up over the years. Maybe it took too long for people to start. Loading clips back at him. And now he's come and realize it.

Now he's got a whole album where he's just griping. Throwing a whole bunch of gripes. And that's cool. Listen, Drake, I'm totally cool with you making a whole album where you gripe on every track. But here's the thing. You make it sound dope. Okay?

You make it sound like a jam. Deppie, closer than anything you've come to on this one of a song where I'm like, all right, I can listen to that one. Doesn't fire me off. Doesn't make me be like, all right, that one's definitely going in the immediate rotation. But I could see that song in the future if that comes on being like, oh,

just like kind of nodding the head, looking at the around the others in the room. Like, oh, what's up? What's up? What's up? Shabang. Got a cool name for a track. I can fuck with it.

And if you're going to complain about people, I'd rather have you complaining about the other motherfuckers talking shit than the girl who, like, won't go on another. date with you okay i'm much more down for you to take shots of them can i forgive i can't what do i need some head sure to keep asking the date she's trying to finesse polly market for the bread shut up dude trying to finesse polymarket for the bread okay all right thanks got a lot of thoughts he's got a unload that's why i got 18 tracks to it that being said let's get to track number seven make them pay

Oh, I wonder what this song is going to be about. You think he's going to be talking some shit on this one? I don't know. Do you? I don't know. Do you? Let's find out. I don't want to hear any more of that one.

I didn't mind the beat, but I just want to be free. Oh, I'm sorry, Drake. Are you not free, Drake? Look, sometimes you've got to recognize when you have a more luxurious life than the 99.9.9.9% of the people that will listen to your checks. All right. And there's a thing with that, why this album might not be good when you've been living that life for a good 15 plus years now. You lose the hunger.

50 cents talked about this. He's like, I don't make his music as good as I used to because I was hungry when I was young. I live a luxurious life now. I don't live that hood life. That's where the good music in me came from. I don't really have that anymore, so he kind of focuses on other things. It makes sense that you wouldn't necessarily have it in you to make dope tracks when you're living a high.

high, high-ass level life that most of us can't even dream of. Like, when I think of, like, the highest I could get with, like, my dreams, it's like, it's not even, like, doesn't even encroach on what Drake's probably been doing past decade. That being said, none of us want to listen to you say, I just want to be free. Bro, you are freer than any of us that are listening. The life you live is so much free. It is so much freer.

Yeah, you got to deal with paparazzi and shit. People want to take videos of you. I get that. I get that part of it. All right, yeah. Your constant shackles of, like, the fame and everything like that. But, like, it's just not a good way to word it. Bro, you don't want to hear you talking about complaining.

I just don't want to hear Drake abigning, you know? If you want to come out, like, firing shots at your enemies and just being like, yeah, I'm going to come out on a hard disc track. Let me hear that. I don't want to hear Winy Drake. I just don't feel like hearing it right now. I'm just not into it, especially not when I'm going through every album. I mean, every track in the album.

By the way, half-syllable, Let's go ahead and play it again. Yep. There it is. By my count, that's five out of seven tracks. Let's go to track eight. Burm bridges is all we. Take the long, take the long way.

I'm going to count it. That counts. I swear I could cry when I see your face. I'll wait to in love just to let you walk away. I'm gonna get out before I have to listen to a whole other verse about him crying just to see her face and letting her walk away. I gave him the 20 seconds where he tried to sing while on piano, which I know he wasn't playing. There's a certain level where I think we need to make a mention with like Drake's level of actually being able to sing to when he's able. He's got a good R&B voice.

He's got a good voice for R&B. He's made a ton of hooks that I love on R&B tracks. Don't sit at that piano and try to act like you're a lounge singer on me, dog. I don't want to hear that either. I don't want to hear you be like, burn it, burn it, brain, yeah, he sounds better than when I sit, but not by much. The song was annoying. I didn't feel like it was getting any more good.

But, once again, let me go ahead and hear of the beat changes again. I do think it changed up a little bit. He kind of likes those, like, sort of heaven is flying overhead type of beats, you know, where it's kind of got like a little, like, dreamy sound to it. And I like some of those, but, I know, that song annoyed me. Still waiting for that banger. Currently, she bangs at the top of the list. Track nine, this one's called National Treasure.

Yep. Yep. Seven out of nine. Half-syllible challenge. For that city, though. I don't like the tower up for this. Yeah, okay. Out in the six, I'm a national treasure.

The that bad me gonna bat me forever. R.R.P. Kobe, but y'all, brokey, that's probably why y'all be shacking together. Cabo and Leeder, guy habits together. Like couples vacation, they packing together. Like rushing the finish, they'll slap it together. The charges like COVID, they'll catch it together. They hate me so much as a sicken and thing.

They must have hurt wrong on the call. I sent him a sack because I wanted you ship to the king. When you was a part of the team, we used to be planning our Mexico trip in the spring. We must have been dealing in spurred. A lot of we think you could get us a ring They brag it's out how you went home The fuck that ain't home

We pop sent us a real one from day going next to me Faw you pussy man who could relate My name's right out of six Just like it did Why was TPS at my crib Until your boy slid It is what it is Check signing is my king

Pushing out ink I feel like I square I would probably need a YouTube search Just for me to do a large load A lot of bullshit Drake wanted to fire off on that one Bit of an ode to The Six

It's hometown of Toronto heard him throw shots at Kauai for not bringing him another ring bro you should get down on your hands and knees and praise Kauai that dude came there for one year brought you a title and dipped never got another title after that all right Kauai Leonard is a he's a national treasure Toronto ought to build him a statue not bitch about him not bringing him another ring he came he saw he destroyed and he was gone there ain't no mission to accomplish there mission was accomplished and then he've got some more

shots off at Kendrick. But I think the main issue I'm having with that, this, that one and a lot of these songs, is just the cadence. Drake can absolutely, as I said at the beginning, Drake can absolutely crush a verse. And I actually think it serves him better when you give him a featured verse. You get him to fire off on one verse and he's just going to attack it, especially when you give him a dope beat. I've heard many of songs where he absolutely, his rap style, his technique, is murderous. fucking problems right off the top of my head heifer he demonstrates how quick he can go but also like change up speeds

a lot of these songs it feels like he's just reading and he probably is he's looking at lyrics he's i'm sure he's been jotting down shit for the past year and he's like oh i'm gonna go off on this i'm gonna go off on that i'm gonna toss the line about how quiet and bring us another ring and all this like oh yeah i call kendrick that

and it's like we can tell dog you're you The fact that you release three albums of 18 track albums shows that you didn't put the proper quality into each track that you should. So many of these songs. Just sound like you're just kind of on robotic rap. Just doing that great cadence where it's like, na-man-man-man-man-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-man-ma-ma-ma-na. And it's like when the beats just stays. I mean, I've been hearing some beat change-ups, and I'm actually okay with that for that reason.

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I know my money. I'm racking my brain. Could never get back with the game. Go to the hotel right after your game. I come to your show and get back. back on the plane this contract talk is fry my brain the numbers they talkin the action same it's bees on the table bees on the table bees on the table bees on the table bees on the table can't even talk to my dogs can't even talk to my friends I don't want to start it man I want to talk about it

All right. I already get the vibe. I love this bees on the table part. And I love that background sample. See, as I'm going through these songs for the first time, I don't have the info as to like who that is, what that sample is. But I love that sample in the back. I think 21 Savage, that's a dope hook.

Bees on the table. Bees on the table. Like, C.S. all getting hype to that, you know what I mean? But what's Drake doing the whole time? Bishing about shit again. Can't you just be happy, Drake? Like, he has the most, like, first world problem gripes that I've ever heard. I mean, probably, I mean, there's a lot of,

these days I hear about that shit. Just getting thrown at me in the news all the time, you know. A lot of first world gripes happening out there. But, Drake, do you have any songs where you're actually, like, just, rapping grateful about all the shit that you got. Why do you got to be kind of bitching about shit every single track? 21 Savage provided you with a dope hook right there. Jump on that.

We could all jump on. That song has legs. I'm going to say it. I like bees on the table, but like it's just still got filtered with Jake's kind of robotic flow. Same shit I was just saying. Kind of has that same flow. He just got and he's pitching about shit again. This kind of talk is right in my brain.

The numbers they talking are actually insane. I'm sorry, Drake. Is the contract talk fucking with you now? You want to bitch about the contract talk? That's where your gripe is now. Man, I got to manipulate these new numbers. They're trying to throw all these millions at me. And I'm like, I feel like I should get this many millions,

but they only want to get me that many millions and this many dates. I'm not trying to go into this. I literally came into this whole album with dopamine. I was honestly hoping that this was going to have a series of bangers on. I was really cool. I was pulling for that. Like I said, I just need one. I just need one track that I leave with them.

Like, fuck you. And you know what? That one was one of the better ones I've heard. Because I like that sample in the background, and I like 21 Savage's part. It was a good hook. That one in Shabang are leaders in the clubhouse to me. And by the way, we're 8 for 10 on the half-syllible challenge. All right.

Let's go to track 11. What did I miss? Oh, what did I miss? What are the odds that this song is going to be a little gripe, a little bitchy? Does Drake have some more shit? shit he's got to get off his chest in the back half of this album in the last eight tracks see what Drake missed. I don't give a fuck if you love me.

I don't give a fuck if you like me asking me how did it feel? Can't say it didn't surprise me. Last time I looked on my right. You're standing beside me. How can some people I love hang around who try me? Let's go. I miss. What did I miss?

I miss. Let's go. Let's go. I'm whipping around. All right, I might surprise y'all with this one. I didn't mind that one. Look, I knew that Drake was going to come at the people that kind of turned their back at them and the beef with Kendrick.

I knew that was going to happen. So that was going to be a subject matter, and it should be. A lot of people did turn their back on Drake the last two years. It's easy to pile on a dude when he's down when he's been getting beat up. And a lot of people took their shots. So I expected that. I'm going to say for a train. that was based off that

about calling out dudes that turn their back on you. The thing I liked about that one, it had an anthem sound to it. It had like sort of a triumphant, like, oh, I'm standing up. I'm getting, oh, I'm getting hyped on this. It gave you something to get, like, motivated with. Call out of the people that I've been beefing with you,

trying to, like, go to war. That's a good sound for it. That actually makes you want to just be like, yeah, what, fuck you? You know, it was one of those. It could be interpreted as more drag-wining, but I didn't, I did, you know, and it was, but like, at least I like how we delivered it on that one. So I'm going to stand with Drake on that one.

What did I miss? Good track. Let's go to track 12. Plot Twist. That's the name of the song. Plot Twist. That song, it actually took, I think, less than two seconds to hit the half syllable challenge. By the way, what did I miss?

Didn't do that. By my count, that's 9 out of 12 on the album right now with a half syllable challenge. Let's keep going. I'm gonna The label Set figure there was a fable A figure bought out the neighbors Now figures turn in the tables

You boy better be ready and able I'm coming I'm gonna talk on broke case Cause it's sticky Free tea and free greasy My killies My youngest put lots on the city So be shit to come out when it's Liddy

T that's the Cody so free him It's a joke and I won't want to be I be the producer like what's the BPM I cannot de-escalate things I'm gonna go ahead on this one See the beat changes Sticks right there. Boring.

I found that track boring. Okay, you know what this album is? I figured it out. This is pre-game music. That's what this album is. Let me paint a picture for you. Y'all know what I'm talking about when I say this. Let's say you're having a party tonight at your house.

Expecting maybe 20, 30 people. First two people show up. They arrived together. Like, yo, what up? Hey, let's go. Let's hang out. Kind of sit in the cache. Hey, you want a beer?

Yeah, let's have a beer. Maybe get a shot. Now that we're hanging out, let's throw on some music. You know, before you might have just kind of been like setting up and you're like, let's put some music on. Now, this isn't the proper pregame. This isn't the turn-up music. This is just kind of like, we're hanging out. We're just kind of catching up.

We're talking. This album is what you throw on in the background of that. This is just sort of. vibe in like catching up. We're not really listening to the music. We're not really partying to the music. It's just kind of there. It's creating a general hip hop vibe that nobody's going to complain.

Nobody's going to be like, dude, turn that shit out. Like this works. This works. This works as background music, but not necessarily if we're trying to get hype music. Not if we're trying to party music. Not if we want to like hear some like jams, you wouldn't throw on this album. So if you want to find the ideal time to play Drake's Iceman pre-pre-game, you and like three maybe four people are just kind of like catching up having a conversation not really listening to music but you want something in background

iceman that's what it's for to this point at least i don't know we still got five tracks to go somehow how the fuck is this album this long dude oh they didn't even do 18 track albums back in like the 90s that was rare back then why you releasing an 18 as part of a three set drake okay track 13 Too hard for the radio. Uh-oh. Don't expect this one on the radio. Can be too hard for that? Let's hear, Drake.

Yo. That's deep in the game. Hey, hey, bro. Yeah. I'm trying to Trisie Drake, and I'm keeping a name. I swear Nike shoes. I got a mic to you. To talk bad about you

I don't like you fools Got an Oakland show tonight, baby My young boy's front of yacht going crazy I'm on a bridge with a tank unlettered I pull up early to that bitch That's yanking already I say yang in the city and I really got rank You see the backpack to the front you're getting spank

I really blow hands for the front of it New aisle blue diamonds on the front of it Shot my little cousin missed to having none of it Trying to campaign, yeah, Jersey bed running Raw I'm sitting down the street that's in the boulevard Need a call up or just to make a pipe down there All right.

All right. That's what I'm talking about. I'm gonna go. Oh, is he changing the beat? Why are he changing the beat on this one? I had him over right now. I didn't like that new change. You know what it is when he changes the beat?

It's basically, okay, so he's obviously been collecting beats working with the producers that he has. The very fact that he had 18 songs mean he had like too many beats that he wanted to work with. And some of them are basically just multiple songs. Like that was two songs right there. As far as I'm concerned, too hard for the radio was actually just like a two-minute track. And then he slid this other song, which if I turn up again, still going. Yeah, I don't like that one. First half of too hard for the radio, though.

That's what I'm talking about. That beat was dope. He actually put some, like, effort to flow in it. It didn't have that robotic I'm reading. I just scripted down thing going on. That's what I'm talking about, Aubrey. I'm going government on. this one. I'm going government. That was my favorite track and it's actually, I'd be honest,

it gets slightly demoted. It loses a snap on that because he decided to throw that other song in there and he just made it a different song and I was actually feeling whether that one was gone. But, you know, beggars can't be chooses for this one. All right, let's go to track. 14. This one's Make Them Remember. Oh, is this one, Jake? Is this one going to be about how that girl used to fuck? You're going to just make her remember you by like calling out her name. Is that what this one's going to be about? Is that where we're going with this? That's what I'm guessing. All right, let's hear what make them remember.

Let's hear who drinks got to make remember. For real. My social battery is drained. For real, for real. Just came from hearing a lot of cop, a lot of pleas like, Oh, brother. You know we brothers. It's never been nothing.

I tell you sending me that owl emoji, my DM ain't going to mend nothing. Don't try. coming around when the sports back to 10-0. For real. I don't want to hear nothing. How can we take this man seriously as a credible cool dude in hip-hop who's complaining about getting an al-moji and a text message? There's no sense of irony there.

He was not being ironic. He's legit complaining about an emoji that he got from somebody. Can't even tell if it's a dude or a girl or what. Such a lame way to do it. It's there to suck. Come on. Drake, enough people think you're cool that you can ride out on that. And enough people think you're corny no matter what you do,

that you're never going to get them back. Making tracks about complaining about people and their texts, what they text you, or didn't text you, never going to be cool. That gets back. Nobody. Nobody's going to be on your side. And from either end of the spectrum after that, it's not going to make those that think you're a cool brother to be like.

I told you Drake was the shit. See, if you text him like, yo, hey, just let you know. Everything's all love. And I send you an owl emoji. And he's like, no, I don't even fuck with that, dude. I don't fuck with your al-a-moji. You know what?

I'm going to leave that shit on red. I'm not even going to return. I'm going to let you know I read it. And it's like, nope. Sorry. End the conversation. That's my boy, Drake. He doesn't fuck with that kind of shit.

Nobody's over there having that conversation about how that's making you cooler. always kind of been drag's curse you know it's provided him with the opportunity he's made a lot of good rmb songs out of his sort of like pettiness and his sort of sensitivity he's made some good tracks out of that like i said earlier marvin's room great song i listened to that song a hundred of times the problem is the other 99 times he does it where it's just like bro nobody wants to hear you whine on this one right now dude nobody wants to hear you whine I don't remember how good that beat was

Let me hear it again And where we used to live But truth be told I can't even see the block It's blocked by the tree tops Please stop asking about what's going on With 23 and me I'm over Nah, it's clunky

Still complaining about you Just complaining. A lot of complaining on this shit, dude And where's your Celebrate Life song? Is there a Celebrate Life song on here? I feel like you got a lot to be happy about Just remember that every now That just good to remind yourself of that every now

We don't need the full hip-hop bragg song talking about all the fucking McLaren's in your garage and the fucking ice on your chain. We don't need any of that. Just like, you know, I've heard you do it before. God's plan. Remember that? It's just a good, like, appreciate life moment. Instead of every song being about like, man, these motherfuckers did text me for like six months and

now they try to come at me. And I'm like, nah. Like, nah, dude. I ain't on that shit. All right, make them remember. I lost track of the half-syllible challenge. I'm just going to listen to the first second of again, see where that one stood.

For real. For real. I'm going to count it. Where are we at? I think that's 11 out of 14. We're almost there. We're in the home stretch. Trek 15 called Lil Birdie.

Is this one going to be about somebody talking shit? Kind of feel like it is, but I'll let Drake tell it. Hey, hey. Yeah, his and hers. I don't like going to Vegas. I start missing Virgil. He'd be sick if he was witnessing it.

in person all these tripping like they clip the hurdle all these zacking like they missed the murder all these airwomen treat me like the prince of persian speak on me and gain a lot just like the dish detergent i put ceases on there door just like a dick yeah j frisco 9554 yeah yeah what wait a what though that was that dude what the fuck was there what happened there that That was a 30 seconds into the track. Do y'all remember? Real ones will remember.

The real heads will say, the real ones who go back to the early days of download music on Limewire, on Kazaa. They'll remember. You used to have to download just whatever song you could grab when there's a new song came out. Some motherfuckers would put their little watermarked,

it'll stamp on it. Be like, DJ, twistle, wait, way, way, way, the best hits. Two points. This motherfucker just put one of those out of nowhere on track 15 of his own album. Little Birdie.

I'm going to play that again. It's not even a clean. It's not even a clean watermark. Let's be honest, that song wasn't going anywhere here. That's a skip. And I'll be honest, you're going to have an 18 track album. Track 15, great place to have a skip. That's where people are.

I'm usually like, no, but like track 17 is good. Like, it's good to that. The last song is good. Like, nobody's stopping for 15. All right. Track 16. Call don't worry. Gotta be honest.

I'm a worry. I'm telling you, Jake. I'll be honest. I heard enough of that already. I don't need to hear any more of that. You know, when you go with 13 tracks, you just got to call it early on some of these. I want y'all do this on that one. Take away the music.

Acapella of that shit. Drake needs to understand the race. range of like his actual vocals as like a singing as a singer you should never be carrying the song with like your singing vocals also little birdie started with a half syllable last time i checked 12 for 16 is where we're at in the half syllable challenge last two songs were as skipable as fuck let's go to track 17 we're in the home stretch y'all this one's called firm friends oh one of the odds at this song's about his real friends and then his fake friends i don't know all the tell it again.

And we back at it, back at it. Yeah. You back at it. Back at it. Back at it again. Back to complaining about his fake friends. You think I didn't see that you stay silent. That's like you endorsing it all.

May as well stand behind him. I stood beside you thought there was some good inside you. Situations like these, they force you to notice the difference. Look at me in Neeks, for instance. We know we live different lives and we... All right. Here's where I'm just going to jump right in. I know where that's going.

Okay. Does Drake, when he's, like, making a whole song where he's trying to talk shit to, like, one friend or, like, one euro, do you think he has, like, a system in place where he kind of, like, leaks the leak to somebody so they can leak it to the leaky? So they know, like, hey, by the way, that Drake, that track, Trek 17 on Iceman, firm friends. That one. He was talking about you on that one.

I have it on good authority. That song was about you, brother. Listen to it. Listen to it closely. Drake wants to make sure you got it. When you just have these vague lyrics about like, no, you know what? When your text was silent, that was louder than any one of your high rants. You know what I mean? Like, it's just, I don't remember that was what he said or I just made that up right now.

But like, it's just like, dude, these individual beef squabbles you're trying to put out on an album. So petty. And I'm just, you're above this. above it, Drake. Aubrey, I'm going back to government because this time I want to actually talk to the man. You know what I appreciate about you most, Drake, was when you started getting into comedy

when I saw you on SNL, and that's when I decided you're a cool dude, but you also know how to laugh at yourself. The end of the no-guidance video with Chris Brown when you totally clown on yourself and it's the funniest part of the video and you actually end up, I think, looking cool in Chris Brown because you can laugh at yourself.

That's my kind of cool right there. I like that. Yeah, you can also. be dope and like kick it to the club and like have like a whole thing going on and everything but you also know how to laugh of yourself this whiny shit dude this just using 13 of your 18 tracks to like send little hidden messages to your your haters or your your former friends what he's buying that shit nobody's buying that's for that nobody wants that you at least make the tracks good i don't know man this album's starting to feel like a swing and a miss to me but i got one more track that

that could save everything. We all know if there's that one banger, if there's that one that I'm like, you know how many times back in the day when I was a kid, you just bought an album because they had the one song? How crazy it would be if that was actually the last track? Didn't matter where it was on there. That actually was easy.

Then you would skip backwards the first time when you listen to the CD. Go right to track 18. Tell me track 18 saves it, and that song was called Make Them No. Oh, it feels like another one of those. All right, let's hear it. Hey, I tried and tried to the arts switched place with the eye I never forget that July the worst that I felt in a while

I'm glad that you think that I'm so I'm glad that you think that I'm shy I need you to think all these things I got bigger than what's in my mind I've taken an eye for an eye I sent a boy up to the sky I still haven't lost any sleep and I definitely didn't cry Hey yo Gucci get back in a ride cause that's definitely not the guy Mistaken identity mixed with adrenaline Almost just kiss you goodbye It's rap so it sounds like a lie

When I talk to you and I confide I'm going going back to Cali I got hearts in both of my eyes I'm sleeping with death on my mind Because the shots that I caught in my time And karma has been on my side But I also just heard that she's blind That bitch might just switch on a dime

Because she can't even see I'm a guy Pressure been getting applied And I know I've been bad with replies The lawsuit I got is fried To the R switch place with the eye They'll frame it as people retired But we know it's the truth and the lie And they act like we sign in a deal

When they pay me for wasting my time And they act like I lost my appeal But they'll pay me for changing their mind They got winning the fact that was hit And the whole world started a chime Not scared of no suit or no tie Victory, I always been mine If I free up my bro, gotta live with it

Because we know that that man isn't innocent If they're saying he did it, he did it But he still might come home in a little bit 400 racks on a head How am I spending so frivolous I had like the money's unlimited If a bro less I want about to drop I resorted like I'm indigenous

Bobby from 6-1 bro And he under my own like a chickish It's getting repetitive I gave it a shot Because the beat was The same So many of these beats in reps Just sound the same dude

He had some good poetry in that one though Shout out to this line I'm going back to Cali I got hearts in both of my eyes. I'm sleeping with death of my mind because the shots that I called in my time. And karma has been on my side, but I also just heard that she's blind.

That bitch just might switch on a dime because she can't even see I'm a god. He had some good lines in that one, but again, it's just more of the same. More of the same. All right, but I'll let him, as any good album listener will do, I will hear how you close it out.

Maybe there's an outer lube. Maybe there's a final message you want to leave Maybe you switch up the beat Maybe you ride it out on that beat beat I'm gonna give you that I'm gonna give you that opportunity drizzie Let's hear how you close it I'm gonna walk away

You've got your love locked up for me I've got your love love I'm gonna give it up for that outro I like the sounds I even feel like it could have like extended that a little bit Maybe if you cut like another song or two And it was just 16 tracks And then you let that one like flow out

You could have given that like little instrumental right there like its own minute i think you know gospel sounds like when you when people want to intro or outro the gospel sounds it really go either way with me but if you add some like dope sounds and some dope beats to it i think it could really play and um we have talked in this podcast about how i used to like really get into like my burn cds and i make sure that the last track on the CD was a good out that's a good way for a CD to end i was always big on that that is definitely a song that ending to it that should be the last song of the album i like how it finished so for me He had had a strong ending.

But overall, a lot of bitching. Too many tracks. Too many songs that just sounded the same. Look, I'm actually going in and dissecting this song. If I was just casually listening to that whole album, I don't know that I would have noticed the track changed that much. I mean, like, hey, is this that same song where Drake's doing that one rap where he's just kind of like, nah-da-da-da-da-na-da-da-da.

Y'all just turn on my back and you don't even get me when I was down. Like, you know, what, just ever, like, just complaining about, like, his friends that, like, weren't there for him or some shit? Complaining about a girl that didn't text him back. With a lot of these kind of pretty, let's be honest, generic beats, I'm going to say he misses young money, y'all. When we look at the peak of Drake's powers, when he was just churning out mad hits, dope beats, given his best flows. I would really say it came within, like, the era of, like, 2011 to, like, 2016, right in the thick of his young, money years he was sitting with the best producers back then i'd say he misses them i don't hear those beats on this album and i don't hear like uh some of those like like a lot of those beats would carry like

so many of those songs that he came up with would carry so many of those songs that would be unavoidable hits you know hotline bling controller one dance the last ride out on fancy so many tracks he used to put out back of the day where like it was like this is a song that you want to everybody's going to be hyped on and it's guaranteed success like across the room like there's gonna be hold on we're going home even before that shit got like really played out like there's so many songs that like viral before viability was a thing where like you'd feel that these songs made people feel something real quick and usually that feeling was yeah the song's a jam and that was it that's all i needed that was what drake was good for and i'm sorry to say that at the end of this i

asked for one banger one that i'm going to take with my collection and be like that one's going in the playlist that one's getting into play like so many drake songs have in the past i didn't hear it i'm already i already feel like i got to look up what songs i said i did like shabang that was a good one i remember that one too hard for the radio before they switched up the beat i literally just had to look that up like the very fact that i have to like go back and look like remember what these titles are shows that it doesn't land like a true bangor should and don't get me wrong hip hop albums do Do not need to have the clubbanger on it to be a successful album. There's been plenty of great hip-hop albums that didn't have the club banger, quote unquote.

But all I'm saying is a Drake album does. That's the harsh truth of it. It doesn't even need to be harsh. It's just the truth of it. Drake made his bones in this industry on the club banger. The songs that made him a legend that who he is in the industry were the clubbangers. the songs that got played on repeat, the songs that got played in the clubs,

the ones that got bumped in the cars and the ubers, and your mom knew about it, and they would play it at graduation parties. Shit like that, that's why everybody knows Drake. And they should. He made a bunch of dope club bangers. Doesn't need to just be banged at a club,

just that general vibe where it's like, this song gets people moving in any room. I didn't hear that on this album. And you know what? This one was supposed to be the jam album. from what I understand Made of Honor and Habiti they're more the chill stuff

you're telling me this wasn't the chill stuff this was supposed to be the hard stuff Drake man I feel like maybe you're trying to do too much at once three albums with three different subject matter how about three songs of each different subject matter that you're trying to put into each album

and then just focus on those nine songs for the whole last year and really make sure those are bangers because there's no way you could tell me you made three different 18-track albums. And I don't even know how many are on the other albums. I'm just saying this one's got 18 and there's two other albums. I just took over an hour to get through this one album. There's no chance that you put the proper care into all these tracks.

And to be honest, as I went through it all, it just sounds like you put this out to get your gripes off. Couple decent songs. Couple songs, I'll be hyped to hear again. What was that one with 21 Savage? That was good for a second. Oh, B's on the table. Yeah, that one was good. There's like three good songs in here that I've, I'll be hyped to hear.

that I probably get hybino and never know with it but sometimes like you might hear the same song a few more times throughout the summer and i'll be like yeah you know what that song's dope and everything but as a full package as a full album way too many songs way too many songs that sound exactly the same way too much bitching way too much individual calling people out call and show shit that none of us know about you're talking about like bullshit gripes text message feuds that nobody outside your friend group would even know what you're talking about maybe not even them you're gonna make a whole track about a a text conversation gone bad with the one homie or that one girl you're gonna make a whole track about that that's worth it to you you're above this drake

you've been sitting on top of the hill for a decade and a half for a reason and this being your comeback all i really needed from you was a banger that's it i expect you to get your shots off in one of these songs. Not all of them. Not had misdirected fires at people that like we don't know what the fuck are talking about. About petty squabbles. How this girl didn't fucking, you didn't like how she talked to you that one time. And he's like, fuck you then. Fuck you then. You know. Drake can be cool when he's not thinking about Drake being cool. When you're just Drake doing Drake, you're doing your comedy. You're just like in the zone, like actually making good music and like perform good music. We all love Drizzy. All right, maybe not we all. He lost a lot of people these past

few years. I don't think this album got him back, though. I don't see who this album actually got back that maybe was lost. Maybe a couple stragglers along the way that were like just ready to jump back on the bandwagon. But hearing you complain about them, I just, I don't think, I don't think that worked. Anyways, I'm tired. I just listen to a whole bunch of Iceman. So I guess I got to rank it, huh? Let's hit up the Slaps meter. Out of five slaps, I'm giving Drake Iceman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't in good conscience give it any more than that. Two slaps and a half a syllable.

I think this album will be largely forgotten. It'll just be a chapter on a Wikipedia page that was like, and then Drake later got really bitter and you tried to throw a bunch shit out there. But there was that one and two song that, like, you kind of remember. And I'm hoping that we can come out of that. I might have to hear him a few more times. But that's where I land with it. What else can you expect when somebody drops three albums on one night?

He's largely trying to get beef off with it. But anyways, that's what I got. Hope you enjoyed my full album review of Drake Iceman. Next up, I'm going to do the full album review of Habiti. No, I'm not. I'm not doing another fucking Jake's song for a long time. But I'll tell you this, I had fun doing this. This is a new way of kind of doing this podcast.

Totally different from the 170 plus episodes I've done before. So if you enjoyed listening to it, let me know. Because maybe I can get more into doing this kind of style, just like digging in the trenches on myself late into the night and just like listen to some music and like throw some thoughts down if you enjoyed that let me know but for now i only got one syllable to say men ice yeah ice yeah ice man you ice you know ice you know you know you know