Rihanna Cruz

Welcome to Switched on Pop.

I'm producer Rihanna Cruz.

Nate, Charlie, there has been a seismic level event in pop music recently.

Toronto singer, rapper, glutton for punishment, Drake, has released not one, not two, but three albums at the exact same time.

Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honor.

And those three records, they're Drake's first solo records since 2023's For All the Dogs.

But more importantly, or also his first since his earth shattering beef with Kendrick Lamar.

in 2024.

And that informally ended with the drop of Kendrick's Grammy award-winning track, Not Like Us.

Yeah, I can imagine that bruised him a little bit.

Correct.

I like the word fracas, Nate.

Never heard that before.

Well, post-Frakas, Drake fell off the musical map for a little bit.

He stayed out of the main spotlight aside from appearances on Twitch or whatever.

He got very ingrained with the streamer community.

It seemed like he retreated with his tail between his legs, which was probably for good reason.

But nonetheless, over the past two years or so following the Kendrick debacle, Drake

We've gotten brief dispatches from Drakeland, including, but not limited to, there was an EP called 100 Gigs with songs like Circadian Rhythm.

Rap game like my sleeping pattern, cause how the fuck I'm still up?