Drake has addressed the fallout from his beef with Kendrick Lamar on his surprise-released new single “What Did I Miss?,” preempting the tune’s launch with a livestream the place he debuted the observe.

On the tune, the Toronto rapper surveys the aftermath of his notorious spat with Lamar, specializing in how these he felt had been near him tried to play each side. “Final time I seemed to my proper, you n—s was standing beside me / How can some individuals I like cling round pussies who attempt me?”

He addresses Lamar’s homecoming present “The Pop Out” that passed off in Los Angeles in June 2024: “I’m again in your metropolis tonight, walkin’ round with my head excessive / I noticed bro on the Pop Out with them however been dick driving gang since ‘Headlines.’”

Drake preempted the one launch with an “Iceman: Episode 1” livestream the place he drove round Toronto in a truck emblazoned with a false phone quantity and the web site the-iceman.com. As he circled Toronto, followers caught on that he was on the wheel, with a number of individuals approaching him as he responded “love” and “blessings.”

The stream, which began about 20 minutes later than promised earlier on social media, started with lengthy pictures of an Iceman warehouse till Drake finally appeared. As he clocked in on the job, he sat and ate meals whereas watching archival footage of himself as a younger rapper. He instantly segued right into a stay efficiency of “What Did I Miss?,” full with a close-up on a TV depicting him surrounded by firearms earlier than segueing to him rapping the observe in a freezer.

All of this seems to be pushing in the direction of what followers consider will likely be an album entitled “Iceman,” which Drake has teased on Instagram by captioning images with the title.