Don’t bother checking the forecast, because based on Drake‘s latest move it’s going to be an ice cold summer. In the latest chapter of the “Hotline Bling” MCs slow-but-steady rollout for his upcoming Iceman album, due out on May 15, Drake gave his Toronto mansion, The Embassy, a frosty makeover.
In a series of pics on his Drake Related site, Drake shared snaps in which the front entrance to his estate is covered in icicles and frost, including his fleet of luxury vehicles. In a testament to what fans can expect from the album, the studio space was also iced out, with snow and icicles dripping from the consoles and keyboards and covering a C-shaped couch at the center of the room.
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The cold snap creeped into Drizzy bedroom, pool (with links to some “Hotline Bling” merch and his Nike Nocta collab) and kitchen. And, if you click around enough, you can land on El Chico Studios, where the rapper has hidden the “Wick Man” instrumental from his Scary Hours 3 mixtape.
The mansion glaze-over is just the latest in a string of frozen promo Drake has been doing for the album over the past month, beginning with frozen courtside seats at Scotiabank Arena for the Raptors season finale against the Brooklyn Nets on April 12. He followed that with an even more outrageous stunt in downtown Toronto, where he hid the album’s release date inside a massive block of ice. Fans descended in droves to check it out and chip away at the sculpture until police showed up to control the crowd of nearly 800 who had gotten to work on the one million pounds of ice using ice picks, blowtorches, lighters and other implements.
The tables were turned, though, by the Cleveland Cavaliers, who eliminated Raptors team ambassador Drake’s team in the first round of the NBA playoffs on May 3 in game 7, and appeared to troll Drake in the waning minutes of the contest by playing Kendrick Lamar’s iconic diss “Not Like Us” to hype up the hometown crowd and troll the rapper and Raptors fans.
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“DEFROSTED,” the Cavs posted to X alongside a poster featuring the Iceman ice sculpture from downtown Toronto, swapping out a “W” inside, instead of the album release date. “Internal Findings: Cavs W Detected in Core,” the graphic read. “Final Conclusion: Cavs in 7.”
Iceman will be Drake’s first solo album since 2023’s For All the Dogs, which topped the Billboard 200.
