As promised, the third installment of Drake‘s Iceman series, which has been streamed live on YouTube, premiered tonight, offering more hints about his upcoming album, Iceman. The stream follows the first two in the series, where Drake unveiled singles “What Did I Miss?” and “Which One.” Tonight, he shared “Somebody Eats Me,” featuring Cash Cobain, who famously contributed to For All The Dogs on “Calling For You.” This new song finds Drake in his Slizzy bag, and Cobain, who recently contributed to Justin Bieber’s album Swag, in prime form, sampling “Somebody Who Loves Me,” from Drake and PartyNextDoor’s collaborative project $ome $exy $ongs 4 U. Drake also premiered a new song with Yeat featuring the singer Julia Wolf.
During the stream, which opened with audio of the Italian easy listening song “Parole Parole” by Mina (almost certainly a cryptic easter egg as the song’s chorus is all about “empty words”), Drizzy saunters through an ominous-looking Italian locale before picking up the phone to call Yeat, who appears in a split frame. Yeat then joins him in another room, handing over what appears to be a file or document. Drake then heads outside into a car where he begins playing a snippet of a new song. The track finds Drake in a familiar register, still clearly fuming over the past year’s beef. “All those summers of slappers you owe me,” he raps before a sped-up beat switch finds him musing on how “they been talkin since 2008.” From the car, Drake then plays a second track that appears to be a freestyle featuring a moody, lo-fi jerk-inspired beat, where we hear him lament how he “aint even know how bad they wanna see me go.”
The stream transitions to an instrumental, where “Parole Parole” is sampled in quintessential Drake fashion, featuring stuttering drums and glittery hi-hats before it’s silent, and we’re in an Italian restaurant, watching a man and woman eat dinner. Four Pinocchio characters enter the room — continuing a motif from Episode 1, where Drake was being chased by Pinocchio — and take their seats at an adjacent table as the instrumental plays louder. A server comes in and places a cube of ice on each of their plates. A tray of red paint is left at the edge of the table, and one of the Pinnochios writes the word “Legacy” on the white tablecloth, before they each toss their ice cubes onto the table and leave their seats, and the server comes in and dumps a whole bucket of ice on the scrawled letters.
In the next scene, a young woman appears in a room and gives Drake a hug, before he launches into snippets of new upbeat, club-ready songs, before returning to the car and playing his new song featuring Cash Cobain. Drake was infamously slated to perform at Cash Cobain’s Slizzy Fest in New York last year, before overwhelming crowds caused the show to get shut down. Speaking to Rolling Stone about his collaboration with Bieber, Cobain said he had “some shit that was going to pop out” for the festival and that he “never got over that.” So, it’s good to see him back in tune with The Boy for this new single.
After the Cash Cobain snippet, we see Drake in what appears to be an Italian courtroom, surrounded by spectators, before a Pinocchio figure appears. Drake quickly scrambles out of the room and heads to the club, where new songs featuring Yeat and pop singer Julia Wolf are playing. At the end of the stream, Drake confronts three Pinocchio figures before the screen cuts to the title page with an inscripted tribute to the late designer Giorgio Armani, who passed away earlier today.
The stream caps off a week where Drake returned to podcast host Bobbi Althoff’s new show Not This Again, where he offered little in terms of details about new music but, as some fans pointed out online, might have alluded to episode 3 of Iceman.
Iceman is set to be Drake’s first solo release since his widely publicized feud with Kendrick Lamar (as well as a sizeable portion of the mainstream rap world) that culminated with Lamar’s now infamous diss track “Not Like Us,” which, among other things, alleges that Drake “Likes them young” and is a “certified pedophile.” The track is at the center of Drake’s current lawsuit against UMG, in which he claims the label heavily promoted the track despite knowing it contained defamatory material. The lawsuit is currently in the discovery phase, with the possibility of a trial in summer 2026 in the event that both sides can’t reach a settlement.
