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May 22, 2026You cannot deny that these records – ‘Iceman’, in particular – are some of Drake’s strongest work in a while. The trilogy doesn’t restore Drake’s invincibility, but beneath the spectacle and the streaming bait is an ageing superstar still stubbornly clinging onto his crown with both fists.
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May 21, 2026“Habibti” is slow, sensuous and sometimes irresistible.
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May 19, 2026Its 11 tracks are crawling with morose R&B melodies that feel beamed from Take Care’s deleted scenes, almost capturing the fun multi-regional slant of 2020’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes. But Drake’s writing still feels smoothed over and starved of evocative detail. His ideas oscillate between half-baked and colorful, saved by a few spurts of inspiration.
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May 18, 2026Habtiti, on the whole, feels like the Drake album we would have gotten a couple of years ago were there no 2024 rap beef. At a tight 11 songs, this album finds Drake in romantic territory, having shed the guarded iciness of Iceman and embracing the R&B loverboy that audiences first came to love him for.