What to know
- Drake has sparked excitement for his rumoured ninth solo album Iceman through cryptic Instagram posts and suggestive captions.
- Fans are dissecting a recent Instagram carousel featuring pop culture quotes and a note reading “It’s time to move, isn’t it?” as intentional clues.
- Speculation intensified after Drake shared posts referencing “Iceman,” alongside renewed buzz around OVO’s Marvel collaboration and past singles tied to the project.
- Hype grew further with the resurfacing of a leaked song featuring Pressa, though Iceman still has no confirmed release date.
Is it go time for Iceman? After a song leak and a series of cryptic Instagram posts, Toronto rapper Drake appears to be signaling his highly-anticipated album is on the way.
It’s been an active 24 hours for the self-proclaimed 6ix God, who has been steadily riling up fans eager for his next era of music.
Early Friday on Instagram, Drake released a carousel of photos dedicated to his admirers, featuring luxurious shots, longtime friends, Barbie dolls holding a toucan and fruit, and a handwritten note reading: “It’s time to move, isn’t it?”
The context-free photo dump also included author Fran Lebowitz with a quote: “I have two main activities in life. Smoking and plotting revenge.” Meanwhile another slide also showed love to a popular rhetorical question from John Cusack in the 2000 film High Fidelity: “What came first, the music or the misery?”
Separately, Drake posted an Instagram story featuring Rory Farrell from the Rory & Mal podcast, who’s often been a big critic of the rapper, followed by another post of a logo reading “Iceman is Drake.”
Iceman has built hype since mid-last year with singles like, “What Did I Miss?,” “Which One” and “Dog House,” following his 2023 deluxe For All the Dogs: Scary Hours. Recently, the rapper’s OVO clothing brand also released a collaboration with comic publisher Marvel, which fans speculated would include X-Men character “Iceman” (also known as Robert “Bobby” Louis Drake.)
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Also stoking the flame is a now-deleted re-posted leak of a haunting song featuring fellow Toronto rapper Pressa titled “National Treasure,” a track warning outsiders not to “stick around in the 6ix.” The song was circulating online last fall, but resurfaced in a now-deleted post on X by user @plottttwistttttt, an account name known on Instagram possibly being the rapper’s “burner” account that released over 100 gigabytes of archived content of Drake’s career in 2024.
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Iceman would mark Drake’s ninth solo studio album, and his latest since 2025 Valentine’s Day collaboration $ome $exy $ongs 4 U with Mississauga singer PARTYNEXTDOOR. As of now, the album remains without a release date.
