Drake's Iceman is One Long Diss Track and Here's Every Target

On his new album Iceman, Drake turns nearly every track into a diss aimed at a sprawling list of rivals and former allies, with Kendrick Lamar looming largest across songs like Make Them Pay, Janis STFU, and Ran to Atlanta.

Drake confronts the fallout from Lamar's 2024 track Not Like Us, which won five Grammys and a Super Bowl halftime slot, alleging streaming manipulation with a line about a magician making a hundred million streams vanish.

He also revisits his January 2025 lawsuit against Universal Music Group and its chief Lucian Grainge, rapping on B's on the Table that he is fighting the man rather than suing a rapper.

Other targets include Playboi Carti on Whisper My Name, where Drake questions his street credibility, and A$AP Rocky and Rihanna on Burning Bridges, where he airs old romantic and personal tension.

Drake further jabs at DJ Khaled over his silence on Palestinian causes, calls LeBron James disloyal for attending Lamar's concert, and needles Pusha T on 2 Hard 4 The Radio.

Taken together, the record reads as one long airing of grievances over betrayals, business disputes, and perceived disloyalty.

Drake filed the defamation suit over Not Like Us in January 2025, lost it on October 9 when Judge Jeannette Vargas ruled the diss track rap battle rhetoric rather than defamation, and appealed on October 29 HipHopDX. Iceman answers anyway: it opened at number one with 463,000 equivalent units and made Drake the first artist to hold the Billboard 200's top three spots simultaneously since weekly charting began in 1956 Complex. On B's on the Table he raps that he fights The Man rather than suing rappers; UMG, which called the suit an affront to artists, has won every ruling so far. Watch the Second Circuit calendar for the next ruling.