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He's miffed at his fans.

He's miffed at the radio and record labels for what he feels is slighting him.

He feels like he had something to prove.

Compelling.

On one hand, you know, I'm happy that Drake is hungry again.

I think that's been missing from his work for a while.

I think he's gotten too comfortable with

And now he's on the defense.

So I appreciate the lyrical dexterity here.

But I do think the angle that he's taking comes off as a little bit tryhard and a little bit lazy.

I wonder what the album would be if he took your approach, Nate, of kind of letting it slide and moving into new lyrical territory.

Most of Iceman expands on this idea of pettiness as practice.

And of the three records, I think it's the weakest as a result.

Going back to the slop idea of like mass produced, unedited, lowest common denominator music, kind of just taking low blows.

There's shots on most of these songs.

There's notable lines on the song Janice, S-T-F-U.

There's also the track Make Them Pay, which kind of goes scorched earth towards a lot of people.

DJ Khaled gets beef.

Rick Ross gets beef.

It recalls the original lines that started this beef back in 2023 when Drake was talking about the idea of a big three.