{"id":11700,"date":"2026-04-20T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/11700\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:48:07","slug":"mysterious-toronto-parking-lot-full-of-ice-blocks-marks-another-drake-stunt-generating-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/11700\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Toronto parking lot full of ice blocks marks another Drake stunt generating buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After playing with fire in Toronto last week, Drake has been spotted in the city once\u00a0again, this time flipping the thermostat all the way down.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, fans noticed a mysterious parking lot near Dundas and Church streets decked out with giant blocks of ice.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, everyone connected the dots and assumed it was another stunt to promote the rapper&#8217;s impending album titled Iceman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A potential video for Drake&#8217;s &#8220;ICEMAN\u201d with giant blocks of ice is currently being worked on in Toronto \ud83d\udc40\ud83e\uddca <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lppUBaOskr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lppUBaOskr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Kurrco (@Kurrco) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kurrco\/status\/2046056470215569613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No\u00a0official word yet on whether the frosty parking lot next to the Bond Hotel was set up for a photoshoot or for the very same video shoot as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/music\/2026\/04\/overnight-explosion-toronto-drake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last week&#8217;s &#8220;giant fireball explosion&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0that rocked Downsview Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some people online were even skeptical that the stunt was even related to Drake \u2013 until someone on X captured the Canadian rapper walking on set.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Drake was on site in Toronto last night for the rumored \u201cICEMAN\u201d video \ud83d\udc40\ud83e\uddca <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CUgsX8rr16\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CUgsX8rr16<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Heart of the streetz \ud83e\ude76 (@HOTS_twt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HOTS_twt\/status\/2046200583401476464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is this why temperatures went down to below zero again?&#8221;\u00a0read an upvoted comment on Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone is hyped, and, as expected, users began to troll the former Degrassi star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aubrey Graham&#8217;s ice sculpting competition,&#8221;\u00a0a Redditor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/toronto\/comments\/1sqadk9\/comment\/oh6lfz5\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drake in his Penguin era,&#8221; another user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/toronto\/comments\/1sqadk9\/comment\/oh6opl6\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote<\/a>, while another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/toronto\/comments\/1sqadk9\/comment\/oh775nw\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted<\/a>, &#8220;This dude be doing too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Love him or hate him, there&#8217;s no stopping Drake, who seemingly is going all out to promote his new album, his first in over three years. We predict more antics in the coming weeks, though the release date has yet to be announced.\u00a0And much like the hot-and-cold weather here in Toronto, you&#8217;ll just have to grin and bear it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After playing with fire in Toronto last week, Drake has been spotted in the city once\u00a0again, this time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4556,631,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-11700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-drake","9":"tag-ice","10":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}