Drake’s new album ICEMAN is breaking records, but the critics are absolutely tearing it apart. 🧊📉
Today we are compiling the best reactions to the official reviews for Drake's massive triple-album comeback. While Aubrey Graham just secured the biggest single-day streaming record of 2026 on Spotify with 197 million streams, outlets like Pitchfork just dropped a brutal 4.8 rating, calling the project a "buffet of self-serving delusion."
Featured Reactors:
Big Zoe Tv
https://youtu.be/pY-BO2W1IN0?si=SpT9UoeNsv-m78df
The HHSB Crew
https://youtu.be/3W9y1WxL2Bs?si=BWfpeK3KSSjDS9br
Starsky tv
https://youtu.be/jOiRHLPASRk?si=FZ8GUJj8ofblaPZR
Greg Haradine
https://youtu.be/-2cBqhTikZQ?si=RCLpzOPLFamZwArq
Justine Lugo
https://youtu.be/RIMAuo7Dv6U?si=NuNqzADs9Vn0m9-v
Wayno
https://youtu.be/6Dg-DRwLp_o?si=7J0DywHGOZ3WZpaa
The Michelle Show
https://youtu.be/2q7SSvz3o9Y?si=nos580AMC7xqBFFX
Shawncee Live
https://x.com/CallMeDennis/status/2055148619880341649/video/1?s=46
Magooz Reviews
https://youtu.be/llrmEEqBWfE?si=6E973tJSMblnY9DN
Scru Face Jean
https://youtu.be/OeOsqSOtgJ4?si=DTs32LfmKPbrOWJs
#Drake #Iceman #AlbumReview #Pitchfork #SpotifyRecord #ReactionCompilation #HipHop2026 #MusicNews #MaidOfHonour #Habibti
Today we are compiling the best reactions to the official reviews for Drake's massive triple-album comeback. While Aubrey Graham just secured the biggest single-day streaming record of 2026 on Spotify with 197 million streams, outlets like Pitchfork just dropped a brutal 4.8 rating, calling the project a "buffet of self-serving delusion."
Featured Reactors:
Big Zoe Tv
https://youtu.be/pY-BO2W1IN0?si=SpT9UoeNsv-m78df
The HHSB Crew
https://youtu.be/3W9y1WxL2Bs?si=BWfpeK3KSSjDS9br
Starsky tv
https://youtu.be/jOiRHLPASRk?si=FZ8GUJj8ofblaPZR
Greg Haradine
https://youtu.be/-2cBqhTikZQ?si=RCLpzOPLFamZwArq
Justine Lugo
https://youtu.be/RIMAuo7Dv6U?si=NuNqzADs9Vn0m9-v
Wayno
https://youtu.be/6Dg-DRwLp_o?si=7J0DywHGOZ3WZpaa
The Michelle Show
https://youtu.be/2q7SSvz3o9Y?si=nos580AMC7xqBFFX
Shawncee Live
https://x.com/CallMeDennis/status/2055148619880341649/video/1?s=46
Magooz Reviews
https://youtu.be/llrmEEqBWfE?si=6E973tJSMblnY9DN
Scru Face Jean
https://youtu.be/OeOsqSOtgJ4?si=DTs32LfmKPbrOWJs
#Drake #Iceman #AlbumReview #Pitchfork #SpotifyRecord #ReactionCompilation #HipHop2026 #MusicNews #MaidOfHonour #Habibti
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00:00All right, y'all. So Drake's Iceman album.
00:02Drake just dropped a whole album full of bangers.
00:05And we know he dropped three.
00:06Not one. Not two.
00:09But three new albums.
00:14Three.
00:1443 songs to be exact over three albums.
00:18But you know we talking about Iceman.
00:21Iceman. Let's start with Iceman.
00:22What do you think? Is it good art or bad art?
00:27Yes, I agree.
00:29It's f***ing awful, isn't it?
00:31All this anticipation behind Iceman, Iceman.
00:34And did he drop two other albums that are better than Iceman?
00:38It's really bad.
00:40Like, our first listen.
00:41Because this is just the first listen.
00:42I feel like there hasn't been that many standout songs.
00:45There's been a lot of good songs, but not that many standout songs.
00:47If I'm being honest, this is a nigga who's been listening to Drake for, f*** my nigga, a decade and
00:51a half.
00:51And in my personal opinion, I feel like if he just made one project, I mean, it's obviously he's trying
00:55to get out his deal.
00:56Whatever he got going on, he literally rapped about it.
00:58But it's like, f*** bro.
00:59Like, I'm a real fan of this nigga music.
01:00I just wanted the best project possible.
01:03And this is exactly what everyone has been saying.
01:08The Iceman tracks, the seedy side.
01:11The Iceman side.
01:13It was cool.
01:15That's my take, too.
01:16It was cool, but.
01:17A few songs I like.
01:18A few songs I got to go back and re-listen to when I download, maybe.
01:21But that could just be right now.
01:23It could grow on me this weekend or something.
01:25But I don't know if a lot of it is for me.
01:27And that's okay.
01:28Because if it was for me, and I honestly just don't like it, then I'd probably like 10 for 41.
01:3512 for 41.
01:51And it's crazy that even his own fan base.
01:56These Twitch streamers absolutely went crazy over this drop.
02:00F*** you mean catch up?
02:04We're in a loop.
02:06He has you chasing your own tail.
02:10How delusional can you be?
02:13He's lost his year for melody, bro.
02:16I think that's the biggest thing that I can say.
02:17He just completely lost it.
02:19He's lost the ability to know when his vocals actually sound good or not.
02:24Like, bro, I can't think of a song where his vocals are actually just raw.
02:28Like, he has such a good singing voice, bro.
02:30And it was similar criticisms that we had with some sexy songs for you.
02:33Where it's like, yo, you're just drowning in auto-tune for no reason.
02:37And yo, this is a fact.
02:40A lot of the things I heard does sound like he drowning in auto-tune.
02:44And there doesn't seem to be any legit direction.
02:47Drake is his best when he's doing, like, catchy hooks, melodies, like, singing.
02:53Like, this is not good.
02:57Like, it's not, like, terrible.
03:00But, like, the amount of, like, promo and, like, gassing he's done to this album for it to be just,
03:07like, so boring so far.
03:09It's like, this doesn't even seem like Drake, bro.
03:11Like, I don't know.
03:14I'm just like, would Drake himself really, like, think this is, like, good and these are hits?
03:19None of these are hits so far.
03:21Why put all this stake into Iceman and Habibti and what's the other one?
03:27And Maid of Honor.
03:29Why put all that energy and focus on this date and then drop two surprise?
03:33Like, it's a surprise to us.
03:36It ain't a surprise to the damn label that this nigga dropped three albums, man, bro.
03:39Y'all be wildin'.
03:40Maid of Honor is a zero for 14, zero for 14, zero for 14.
03:46So I could...
03:48Obviously, he's going here for quantity over quality, right?
03:53Three albums released at the same time.
03:54What's the point of that?
03:56Why not spread them out at least?
03:57Rather than just give us this avalanche of incredibly mediocre slash shit music.
04:03Now, we seen in one of the videos that he burnt down a streaming farm.
04:08And let's just talk about the videos for a second.
04:11Them videos is fucking fire.
04:13We not...
04:13I would not deny none of that.
04:15Like, I give respect and I give credit where it's due.
04:18The narrative is forever gonna be, I'm a hater.
04:21I don't give a fuck.
04:22I give respect and credit where it's due.
04:25Them visuals is special.
04:26Them shits look really good.
04:28They compliment and go really, really well with how he presented everything.
04:32Just off my first synopsis, bro.
04:34This did not live up to the hype.
04:35And I'm being dead honest when I say that.
04:37This did not live up to the hype for the soul factor.
04:38I said, I did a video not too long ago, probably about a month and a half ago,
04:42that Drake's Iceman needs to be a classic.
04:44It needs to be a classic because we saw how the battle affected him,
04:48how he moved after the battle with the loss and all that kind of stuff.
04:51This project had to leave no...
04:55What's the word I'm looking for?
04:56No hesitation with any of the listeners to be like,
04:59hey man, is this a good project or not?
05:01This had to prove your doubters wrong.
05:03Nah, you still got it.
05:04You know what I'm saying?
05:05And this project, my personal opinion, did not do this.
05:07Now, the hardcore OVO fans, they're going to love it.
05:08They are loving it.
05:09But the general consensus of this album is very mixed to not a good project at all.
05:16And on top of that, he dropped two more projects,
05:18Habibati and Maid of Honor, which I tried to get through,
05:21but I'm like, nah, bro.
05:24Just from the things I'm hearing, I say,
05:25I got to do two separate reviews for those just alone.
05:27Like, bro, are we serious right now?
05:30Are we fucking serious?
05:31Now he's pissing me off.
05:32First off, talking about the big three.
05:35Dog.
05:36We're good.
05:38We're good.
05:39Just let it go.
05:40Just move on.
05:41We're good.
05:42I was Aiden Ross with streams before Aiden Ross had ever streamed.
05:52We're good, bro.
05:54We're good.
05:54And you, a grown man, pushing 40, by the way,
06:00you're comparing yourself to Aiden Ross.
06:03Talking like Aiden Ross is like a legend or something.
06:08Like, if anything, maybe say Kai Sinat or something,
06:11because I feel like that's actually like the goat of streaming.
06:15But like, why are you even comparing yourself to streamers?
06:19You're an artist.
06:22Like, no shade to streamers.
06:23No shade to streamers.
06:24I'm an internet person.
06:25I'm not a streamer, but I'm an internet person too.
06:27Like, no shade.
06:28No shade, literally.
06:29But what are we doing?
06:30I can't listen to a song where Drake, or any rapper for that matter,
06:38makes a bar and compares himself to Aiden Ross as a good thing.
06:42So I'm dead ass.
06:43I'm skipping the rest of that song.
06:44Fuck that.
06:46I'm not doing that.
06:47I'm one of them people that's been very, very critical of Drake
06:50in the respect of,
06:52yo, my nigga,
06:56don't keep harboring on
06:58with what you went through.
07:01But at the same time,
07:03if I'm going to say that,
07:04you also have to respect the fact that
07:05if you want to hear a person's perspective,
07:08it's got to be what they went through.
07:11Now, I'm still going to stand on the fact of
07:15leave Kendrick Lamar alone.
07:17And he didn't do that here.
07:19But I do feel like he had a
07:21subtle way of addressing it
07:23without it being too overt.
07:25Two-year-old beat that he should have responded to sooner than now.
07:27And instead of using his record to rise above it
07:30and deep dive into his own psyche and inner world,
07:32bro, this is literally what I said.
07:35I said,
07:35I would not have wasted an entire album
07:39rehashing the beat.
07:41If you're going to drop this album
07:43that is supposed to be the most pivotal point in your career,
07:47we're still talking about the beat.
07:49Like, bro, go get past it.
07:50Hey, shout out Pearly Nicks, if that's your name.
07:53But get past it.
07:54Deep dive into his own psyche and inner world.
07:56He takes aim at more people
07:58and doesn't seem to have really evolved
08:00his sound or perspective much at all
08:02since it all went down.
08:03Do you agree or disagree?
08:05Man, I'm not going to lie, bro.
08:06I'm going to keep it my buck, bro.
08:09I love Drake, but damn, bro.
08:12I don't know if I need a second look,
08:14but this shit ain't hitting.
08:18I don't know, man.
08:21The show is amazing.
08:24And to be honest,
08:25that's the story of Drake.
08:27That's literally the reason why
08:28I can't be a Drake fan the way I used to be.
08:31Because I felt this way during Scorpion.
08:33The exact same way.
08:34Because that's when he first started off
08:36doing the double side.
08:38Because he did these A side,
08:40then he had the B side.
08:41So that's when I really started having
08:43that conversation of Drake.
08:44He really doesn't care about making a classic album.
08:47This is straight, strictly for the streams.
08:50He's obsessed with streaming numbers, isn't he?
08:52He goes on and on about it.
08:53He wants to be the, you know,
08:54in his lyrics as well on this album.
08:56He wants to be the most streamed artist.
08:59Should it not be about good songwriting,
09:02good songs, good music,
09:03rather than the most streamed artist?
09:06It's embarrassing.
09:07He tried to play a lot with different vocal effects
09:09on these albums.
09:10Pitching his tone a bit down
09:13or trying out these new voices
09:14that are sometimes higher pitched.
09:16It was a disaster, bro.
09:18From a vocal performance standpoint,
09:20super lazy, unenthused.
09:22And again, there was never a hook that I heard
09:24where I'm like,
09:24yo, this is actually really catchy.
09:26Like, I could hear this on the radio
09:27and that's weird for two Drake albums.
09:30But I feel like this whole album,
09:32he wasn't really even trying to,
09:34he's just trying to get to whatever
09:36the next part of his career is.
09:37I think he was just trying to get out of his deal,
09:39you know, move forward.
09:40So he just dumped a bunch of music
09:42with no context.
09:44And like, you know,
09:45I would love to see, you know,
09:48artists and stuff paint them,
09:49tell a story with their albums again.
09:50You know what I mean?
09:51Like from track one to track to the end,
09:54like create a full piece.
09:56Some people,
09:57Iceman was not that good.
09:59It was an overhyped album.
10:01But just give it a month.
10:02A month?
10:03Give it like a month
10:04or maybe two months or three months.
10:06Three months?
10:06You're going to see those people
10:07that said it was an overhyped album.
10:10It was just not good.
10:12Hey, I'm not talking about
10:13the other two albums.
10:14I'm talking about Iceman specifically.
10:16Y'all are going to change.
10:17I got to give an album
10:18a damn quarter of a year
10:21to like it.
10:24This the type shit Draco on
10:25in this damn album.
10:26This what he doing.
10:27The Chicken Wings
10:28is done in the microwave.
10:31The microwave.
10:32The microwave.
10:34The microwave.
10:35The microwave.
10:37The microwave.
10:38The microwave.
10:40Look.
10:40Yeah.
10:41Look.
10:41They done.
10:42The chicken is done.
10:43They done.
10:44Done in the microwave.
10:45And you tell them
10:46that it's microwave
10:46because you know
10:47that this is microwave.
10:49Can you know?
10:49Like what the.
10:50That.
10:51What the.
10:51That's not.
10:54That is not what happened to him.
10:56That's not rapping.
10:57And look.
10:57I don't want it to sound
10:58like I'm hating on my nigga.
10:59You feel me?
11:00Like I love Drake.
11:01You feel me?
11:02But I realize
11:02I'm probably more of a
11:04singing melody
11:05type of Drake fan anyway.
11:06But like.
11:07No.
11:08Like the whole
11:09Made of Honor album
11:10had to be for a different country.
11:11Not going to cap it.
11:12It had to be for a different country.
11:13And the other two.
11:15I mean Habibi BBT.
11:17That was great.
11:18The end of it was good.
11:20I had like that.
11:20I like the tour of the end.
11:22Iceman no.
11:24Iceman no.
11:25I just want y'all
11:26to see other people
11:27talk about it.
11:28So when I talk about it
11:29y'all not just saying
11:30yo.
11:30A euphoria
11:32fucking episode
11:33in half of the songs bro.
11:34And it's just.
11:39Like I don't know bro.
11:45I don't know man.
11:46I don't know bro.
11:47I don't know.
11:47I don't know bro.
11:48All right chat.
11:49Well I'm hopping off bro.
11:50That man had people
11:51ending they streams.
11:53Crazy.
11:53I'm pretty sure
11:54GNX
11:56streamed more
11:57its second day
11:59than Drake's album
12:01streamed its second day.
12:03And GNX I think
12:04has six songs
12:05less than Iceman.
12:07And
12:08GNX was a surprise album.
12:11and Drake
12:12has essentially
12:13been promoting
12:13this Iceman album
12:15for two
12:16years
12:17and
12:18he was dissing
12:19people in it.
12:21So it's like
12:23this isn't always
12:24about Kendrick and Drake
12:25but this
12:25absolutely is
12:27because this was
12:28me assessing
12:29the damage.
12:30Right?
12:30Like we watched
12:31the war.
12:32Now it's like
12:32when you come in
12:33and you assess
12:34the damage
12:34and I go
12:36I thought
12:36when I went in
12:37the damage
12:37ain't gonna be that bad.
12:38He just lost the war.
12:39We've seen it.
12:39He lost bad.
12:40No I've never seen it
12:41in this style
12:41but he lost
12:42whatever whatever.
12:43Now I'm starting
12:44to really look
12:45at the paperwork
12:45but wait a minute
12:46nigga.
12:49Oh no.
12:51He might be cooked.
12:52He might be cooked.
12:52He
12:53he might be
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