Here is this week's Luminate Data Market Watch report which features Canadian music stats for the current week and year-to-date comparisons to last year.
Here is this week's Luminate Data Market Watch report which features Canadian music stats for the current week and YTD with comparisons to last year. This chart is published every Tuesday. The abbreviation "TEA" is a term used to describe the sale of music downloads or singles. A track equivalent album is equal to 10 tracks, or 10 songs.
The 6 God returned with three new albums on Friday (May 15).
Freeze the world. After seeing peers cross him and taking lashes from rap fans for the better part of two years following Drake’s battle with Kendrick Lamar, the 6 God had plenty to say.
Or as Drizzy put it on Iceman opener, “Make Them Cry”: “I’m in the cut just loading rebuttals.” With the weight of Canada on his shoulders, Drake had a lot to get off his chest and the OVO boss addressed just about everything and everyone on Iceman.
Drake premiered Iceman during his episode four livestream on Thursday night (May 14), which ended with the Toronto dignitary revealing he actually had three albums on the way for Friday (May 15).
Iceman is the main attraction, a bar-heavy introspection with Drake rapping in peak form and examining all aspects of life, while Maid of Honour and Habibti lean into R&B, dance and cater more toward the ladies.
Drizzy sounds inspired and recharged on Iceman. When the stakes are raised, the greats typically deliver and Drake did that and then some with his ninth studio LP. For the first time in years, there felt like a sense of urgency from Drake, which has to be tied to the Kendrick Lamar clash and some of hip-hop turning on him after over a decade of dominance.
“What died back in 2024 was a big piece/ So it’s like this s— is me, but it isn’t me/ Y’all keep on asking what it did to me/ That’s what it did to me,” he admits on “Make Them Cry” while wearing the figurative scars from 2024.
Drake is open and vulnerable while punching back, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. That’s the cycle of human emotions. He revealed that his father is currently battling cancer, touches on his lawsuit against UMG and reunited with Future on “Ran to Atlanta,” championing that “me and Hendrix back by popular demand” as he and Pluto put their issues aside.
The 6 God seemingly had smoke for everyone that he felt wronged him in recent years, ranging from DJ Khaled to Kendrick Lamar and Rick Ross. With Drake centering his crosshairs on the opposition on Iceman, that’s where our focus will lie.
Stream Iceman and find everyone Drake appeared to diss on the album below.
Song(s): “Make Them Pay,” “Make Them Remember”
Lyric(s): “Damn, who is this guy for real/ I guess a magician/ 100 million streams vanished, no one got questions.”
“And Muggsy Bogues dunked for once, even I’m a bit amazed.”
Song(s): “Make Them Pay”
Lyric(s): “And Khaled, you know what I mean/ The beef was fully live, you went halal, and got on your deen/ And your people are still waitin’ for a Free Palestine/ But apparently, everything isn’t black and white and red and green.”
Song(s): “Whisper My Name”
Lyric(s): “Baby boy please, I heard what you said to lil bro about me/ Yeah, and when you run into the Iceman, what you gon’ do except freeze/ You not bout to squeeze/ You not in the streets.”
Song(s): “Make Them Pay”
Lyric(s): “Dog, I was aiding Ross with streams before Adin Ross had ever streamed.”
Song(s): “Burning Bridges,” “Firm Friends”
Lyric(s): “Your baby momma ain’t even post a single, damn, where she at/ … You saw my brother, you was tryna fix it, now you drop your album and you back dissing.”
“K-Y-S, A-S-A-P, that’s some s–t that you could do for me.”
Song(s): “Make Them Pay,” “Make Them Remember”
Lyric(s): “Me, I stood ten T’s and accepted the mission/ Cause I’d much rather death than submission/ How can you press the ignition and let some memories of the past affect your decision/ I love you cause of the history, but if we being real, I could never forgive you/ And you never called me back, but destiny’s written, for real/ F— a big three anyway, there was too many chefs in the kitchen, it was a mess to begin with.”
“I could’ve fell back like the married rapper, but we engaged.”
Song(s): “B’s on the Table”
Lyric(s): “I’m fighting the man, not suing a rapper, you boys are not listening.”
Song(s): “Janice STFU,” “Whisper My Name”
Lyric(s): “We know how you OGs rocking already, my n—a, the jig is up.”
“I’ll take $500K, not the dinner, I never could learn s–t from none of y’all.”
Song(s): “2 Hard 4 Radio”
Lyric(s): “Mustard heard about us, gotta catch up to the slaps/ You ain’t had one since me and YG rapped/ Facts, 900 million for the tracks, ‘Rack City,’ b—h, we remember that/ Yeah, you should try and get back to that.”
Song(s): “Make Them Pay”
Lyric(s): I got all the chains that they ever repped in Virginia/ I got n—as’ prized possessions, I get possessive on n—as.”
Song(s): “Make Them Pay”
Lyric(s): “I got all the chains that they ever repped in Virginia/ I got n—as’ prized possessions, I get possessive on n—as.”
Song(s): “Make Them Remember”
Lyric(s): “I shouldn’t even be shocked to see you in that arena/ Because you always made your career off of switchin’ teams up.”
“Please stop askin’ about what’s goin’ on with 23 and me/ I’m a real n—a and he’s not, it’s in my DNA.”
Song(s): “National Treasures”
Lyric(s): “We must’ve been dealin’ the spur of the moment/ Cause why did we think you could get us a ring/ They braggin’ ’bout how you went home, the f— are they on/ Crodie, we threw ’em away/ G Pop sent us a real one from Daygo/ And next thing we knew, we was doin’ parades.”
Song(s): “Make Them Remember”
Lyric(s): :”If Drake took out the AK, maybe he’d be in jail/ Just based off the name that it spells/ What they say they just smelled/ I heard they got special places in hell/ For n—as jokin’ about evil when they did it themselves, damn.
