{"id":596589,"date":"2026-04-21T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/596589\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:06:08","slug":"drakes-iceman-release-date-is-at-the-bottom-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/596589\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake&#8217;s &#8216;ICEMAN&#8217; Release Date Is at the Bottom of This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After skirting around any concrete details regarding the album\u2019s release, <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/drake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a> has, at last, officially fired up the ICEMAN rollout, revealing its release date in what might be his most grandiose promotional move yet.<\/p>\n<p>Drake had a massive ice sculpture built in the parking lot of the Bond Hotel in the middle of downtown Toronto, and at the bottom, there is a piece of paper with the release date. He went big and went home.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The reveal of the Toronto ice pyramid also gives more clarity to Drake\u2019s Instagram story last night. He shared a screenshot of an iMessage chat in which he sent a chat saying \u201cIt\u2019s in,\u201d attached to an image of two ice blocks. This led to ample speculation that the rapper was revealing that he had turned in the final album, but now we know it\u2019s in reference to the release date.\n<\/p>\n<p>To backtrack, last week, explosions were heard in Toronto, which, according to Instagram stories from <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/dj-akademiks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DJ Akademiks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/anthony-fantano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Fantano<\/a>, and Drake himself, signaled the filming of the \u201cProject Bot\u201d music video.\n<\/p>\n<p>To backtrack even further, Drizzy first formally introduced\u00a0ICEMAN\u00a0last July with his series of\u00a0ICEMAN\u00a0livestreams. It was on these three streams that \u201cWhat Did I Miss\u201d with Central Cee, \u201cWhich One,\u201d also with <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/central-cee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Cee<\/a>, and \u201cDOG HOUSE\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/yeat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yeat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/julia-wolf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Wolf<\/a>, all premiered live.\n<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned as more information on ICE MAN materializes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After skirting around any concrete details regarding the album\u2019s release, Drake has, at last, officially fired up the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-596589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}