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It’s officially album season for Drake. The Grammy-winner is set to drop his first project of the year, Iceman, on May 15.
This will be Drake’s first solo project in two years. So there are definitely high expectations for him to deliver another classic. In an article from Jeff Ihaza of Rolling Stone on Monday (May 4), he explains that Drake must give “insight” about his 2024 beef with Kendrick Lamar. And how it landed him in beef with seemingly the entire rap industry. ‘
Rolling Stone Puts Drake on The Hot Seat Ahead of Iceman Release
“[Iceman] has to provide some insight into what the hell happened between Drake and basically everybody, while also getting the public to forget not only ‘Not Like Us,’ but the fact that he took UMG to court over it,” Ihaza wrote. “More than just winning the battle, ‘NLU’ changed the atmosphere around rap itself.”
Rolling Stone says that Drake has a lot to do on ‘Iceman’:
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The 2024 feud between Drake and K. Dot drew a line in the sand. You had to be either Team Kendrick or Team Drake. No playing Switzerland. And while the rap beef appeared to put hip-hop on a global stage, rap legend Jay-Z believes that overall, the feud put hip-hop in a bad position.
“Now, people who like Kendrick hate Drake, no matter what he makes. It’s like an attack on his character. I don’t know if I love that,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s helpful to our growth where the fallout lands, especially on social media.
He also noted that in the digital age, the negativity that can stew from rap feuds on social media often goes “too far.”
“It’s too far. It’s bringing people’s kids into it. I don’t like that. I sound like the old guy wagging his finger, but I think we can achieve the same thing, as far as sparring with music, with collaborations more so than breaking the whole thing apart,” he said. “It could have stood it before because there was no social media. You had the battle, and it was fun, and then you moved on. Right now, I don’t know if it could stand it with the technology that we have.”
