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May 15, 2026“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.”
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May 22, 2026‘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.
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May 16, 2026Altogether, 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.
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Jun 8, 2026In very Drake-style, there are some overly try-hard moments on Iceman. .... Iceman is at its best when Drake feels tapped in a more mature frequency.
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May 18, 2026Though it’s far from Drake’s most compelling work, Iceman accomplishes the task of clearing the field after he’d been declared, among other things, dead
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May 15, 2026‘Iceman’ is at its most interesting when exploring these conditions and vulnerabilities, but all too often Drake relies on tropes from previous albums to get him over the line, when he should have been trying to burst through the tape.
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May 29, 2026Iceman 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.
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May 22, 2026If 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.
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May 18, 2026The 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.
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May 18, 2026On ICEMAN, we get a few teaspoons of nourishing hilarity, but mostly it’s a long platter of the cold, lumpy self-pity that made us push our chairs back in the first place.
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May 15, 2026The issue is that the great moments are adrift amid a lot of underwhelming stuff: filler along the lines of Janice STFU (which lazily interpolates a very old and well-known Lykke Li chorus) and B’s on the Table, during which guest 21 Savage sounds as if he’s bored out of his mind.
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May 19, 2026Nauseating 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.