Drake surprised fans by releasing three albums last week, but ‘Iceman’ has not disappointed with its list of high-profile diss tracks.
The Canadian rap star had been teasing the release of ‘Iceman’ in recent months, including concealing its release date in a giant block of ice in Toronto in April, and in the end it was released alongside its sibling albums ‘Habibti’ and ‘Maid Of Honour’.
The 18-track ‘Iceman’ includes guest appearances from Future, Molly Santana and 21 Savage and was preceded by the single ‘What Did I Miss?’ last summer. Its track ‘Make Them Cry’ immediately became the most streamed song in a single day of 2026 on Spotify, while the three records combined to break a number of other streaming records for Drake.
They are Drake’s first studio albums since 2023’s ‘For All The Dogs’ – although he did drop ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ last year, a collaborative record with PartyNextDoor.
The three records are also Drake’s first to be released since his all-encompassing beef with Kendrick Lamar, and ensuing lawsuit against Universal Music Group.
Unsurprisingly, Drake was unable to resist poking at Lamar a few times on ‘Iceman’, but he is not alone. See the full list of disses from the record below.
Kendrick Lamar
“White kids listen to you cuz they feel some guilt and that’s how your soul gets fulfilled / Handin’ out turkeys on camera inside of your hood, then you go back to the hills / How many houses you build? / How many souls did you heal off the back of your deal?” (‘Janice STFU’)
“Damn, who is this guy for real? I guess a magician / 100 million streams vanished, no one got questions for n****s” (‘Make Them Pay’)
“And Muggsy Bogues dunked for once, even I’m a bit amazed / Yeah, someone give the kid a raise” (‘Make Them Remember’)
Drake and Kendrick’s feud is the rap story of the decade, dominating headlines throughout 2024 and 2025. It span out from a back-and-forth trade of diss tracks to become a heated defamation lawsuit and a complex feud that impacted their personal lives.
The ‘Make Them Pay’ lyrics call back to Drake’s accusation that Universal Music Group inflated the streaming numbers for the all-conquering ‘Not Like Us’, while he also says Spotify has curbed the figures for Kendrick and SZA’s ‘Luther’, something he has previously alleged on ‘The Heart Part 6’ and ‘Family Matters’.
Muggsy Bogues, meanwhile, is a 5’3” NBA legend, the same heigh as Lamar, with Drake suggesting that his rival’s victory in the feud was about as surprising as Bogues landing a slam dunk.
Jay-Z
“We know how you OGs rocking already, my n***a, the jig is up” (‘Janice STFU’)
“I’ll take $500k, not the dinner, I never could learn shit from none of y’all” (‘Whisper My Name’)
Drake takes aim at Jigga, with the latter lyric referring to the recurring debate, “dinner with Jay-Z or $500,000”. Jay-Z had a remote part to play in the Drake-Kendrick beef, as it was his Roc Nation company that selected Lamar for the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show, which led to the famous singalong of the contentious lines in ‘Not Like Us’.
J. Cole
“Me, I stood ten T’s and accepted the mission / Cuz I’d much rather death than submission / How can you press the ignition and let some memories of the past affect your decision / I love you cuz of the history, but if we being real, I could never forgive you / And you never called me back, but destiny’s written, for real / Fuck a big three anyway, there was too many chefs in the kitchen, it was a mess to begin with” (‘Make Them Pay’)
“I could’ve fell back like the married rapper, but we engaged” (‘Make Them Remember’)
Drake refers to his former friendship with J. Cole, which was also dragged by the Kendrick feud. Cole was one of Kendrick’s early victims in the beef on ‘Like That’, to which Cole shot back with ‘7 Minute Drill’, a track he later apologised for. Cole later reflected on his involvement in the feud on his track ‘Port Antonio’.
A$AP Rocky
“Your baby mama ain’t even post your single, damn / Where she at? Yeah, where she at? / You saw my brother, you was tryna fix it / Now you drop your album and you back dissin’, yeah” (‘Burning Bridges’)
“K-Y-S A-S-A-P, that’s some shit that you could do for me” (‘Firm Friends’)
Drake takes aim at Rocky by drawing his relationship with Rihanna into the album. Drake and Rihanna were in an on-again, off-again relationship from 2009 to 2016, but more recently Rocky picked his side in the Drake-Kendrick beef, and dissed Drake on three tracks on his 2026 album ‘Don’t Be Dumb’.
LeBron James
“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” (‘Make Them Remember’)
The arena in question was the Kia Forum in the summer of 2024, when Kendrick performed his ‘Pop Out’ gig, leading a crowd in a huge version of ‘Not Like Us’, with James seen dancing along. Drake suggests the NBA great switched teams as the two did perform together on stage in 2016.
Dr. Dre
“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****s jokin’ about evil when they did it themselves, damn” (‘Make Them Remember’)
Remove the A and K from Drake and you get Dre, Kendrick’s mentor who was seen celebrating with him after his 2025 Grammys haul. He appears to be referencing allegations against Dr. Dre from the singer Michel’le, who has said she was in a relationship with the mogul when she was 16 years old.
Pharrell Williams
“I got all the chains that they ever repped in Virginia / I got n****s’ prized possessions, I get possessive on n****s” (‘Make Them Pay’)
Drake smuggles a reference to Virginia native Pharrell here, seemingly referencing the time in 2023 that he reportedly wore millions of dollars’ worth of jewellery that he had bought from a Pharrell auction.
Rick Ross
“Dog, I was aidin’ Ross with streams before Adin Ross had ever streamed” (‘Make Them Pay’)
Ross released ‘Champagne Moments’ during the Kendrick-Drake feud, and he gets his receipt here, referencing the popular streamer Adin Ross
DJ Khaled
“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” (‘Make Them Pay’)
Khaled opted to stay out of the Kendrick-Drake feud, but that wasn’t enough for him to get off here, with Drake using Islamic terms halal and deen to make a word play on beef. He also calls him out for not being outspoken on the crisis in Gaza, despite being born to Palestinian parents.
