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  • Summary: Drake's 18-track album featuring guest appearances by 21 Savage, Future and Molly Santana was one of three albums (with MAID OF HONOUR and HABIBTI) released on the same day.
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. May 15, 2026
    83
    “Iceman” has enough sonic and tonal variance that it largely avoids the monochromatic purgatory of his last three solo releases. It’s by no means his best album, but it feels like one of his most honest, perhaps his most nimble since “Scorpion.”
  2. 70
    ‘Iceman’ is easily the strongest of the three. Across 18 tracks, Drake attempts to tap back into the slick, laidback sharpness of his ‘Comeback Season’ era, delivering some of his least bloated rap in years.
  3. May 16, 2026
    67
    Altogether, the trio of albums amount to a complete Drake experience, for better and for worse. Iceman is Drake’s hardest solo rap album in years, and it brims with tough talk and why-I-oughtas (“Whisper My Name”), which doesn’t really make sense anymore.
  4. May 18, 2026
    40
    The real problem on Iceman is how lifelessly he runs through the formula this time. Apart from the roguish “Ran to Atlanta,” loaded with eerie synths and bouncy blasts of bass, there’s seldom a moment here one could reasonably call catchy.
  5. May 29, 2026
    40
    Iceman gets tedious quickly. Drake tries hard for vindication and righteousness with almost each of the album’s 18 tracks, but it all ends up serving as a reminder of why he lost the beef that he still can’t get over.
  6. May 22, 2026
    40
    If there are any hits to be found amid this hook-light barrage of music, it’s those two ["Ran To Atlanta" and " 2 Hard 4 The Radio", and maybe the album’s early single “What Did I Miss” — it’s gigantic and churning and triumphal enough to make the case that Drake is still impervious.
  7. May 19, 2026
    30
    Nauseating trap, overplayed AutoTune—all of Drake’s favourite signatures are present and correct. The problem is the rapper himself. Drake sounds lethargic and uninspired throughout ICEMAN.

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