{"id":34250,"date":"2026-05-06T14:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/34250\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:02:17","slug":"drakes-toronto-mansion-gets-virtually-iced-out-in-pics-ahead-of-iceman-album-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/34250\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake\u2019s Toronto Mansion Gets Virtually Iced Out in Pics Ahead of \u2018Iceman\u2019 Album Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t bother checking the forecast, because based on Drake<\/a>\u2018s latest move it\u2019s going to be an ice cold summer. In the latest chapter of the \u201cHotline Bling\u201d MCs slow-but-steady rollout for his upcoming Iceman album<\/a>, due out on May 15, Drake gave his Toronto mansion, The Embassy, a frosty makeover.<\/p>\n

In a series of pics on his Drake Related site<\/a>, Drake shared snaps in which the front entrance to his estate is covered in icicles and frost, including his fleet of luxury vehicles. In a testament to what fans can expect from the album, the studio space was also iced out, with snow and icicles dripping from the consoles and keyboards and covering a C-shaped couch at the center of the room.<\/p>\n

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The cold snap creeped into Drizzy bedroom, pool (with links to some \u201cHotline Bling\u201d merch and his Nike Nocta collab) and kitchen. And, if you click around enough, you can land on El Chico Studios, where the rapper has hidden the \u201cWick Man\u201d instrumental from his Scary Hours 3 mixtape.<\/p>\n

The mansion glaze-over is just the latest in a string of frozen promo Drake has been doing for the album over the past month, beginning with frozen courtside seats<\/a> at Scotiabank Arena for the Raptors season finale against the Brooklyn Nets on April 12. He followed that with an even more outrageous stunt in downtown Toronto, where he hid the album\u2019s release date inside a massive block of ice<\/a>. Fans descended in droves to check it out and chip away at the sculpture until police showed up to control the crowd<\/a> of nearly 800 who had gotten to work on the one million pounds of ice using ice picks, blowtorches, lighters and other implements.<\/p>\n

The tables were turned, though, by the Cleveland Cavaliers, who eliminated Raptors team ambassador Drake\u2019s team in the first round of the NBA playoffs on May 3 in game 7, and appeared to troll Drake<\/a> in the waning minutes of the contest by playing Kendrick Lamar\u2019s iconic diss \u201cNot Like Us\u201d to hype up the hometown crowd and troll the rapper and Raptors fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cDEFROSTED,\u201d the Cavs\u00a0posted to X\u00a0<\/a>alongside a poster featuring the\u00a0Iceman\u00a0ice sculpture\u00a0from downtown Toronto, swapping out a \u201cW\u201d inside, instead of the album release date. \u201cInternal Findings: Cavs W Detected in Core,\u201d the graphic read. \u201cFinal Conclusion: Cavs in 7.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iceman\u00a0will be Drake\u2019s first solo album since 2023\u2019s\u00a0For All the Dogs, which topped the\u00a0Billboard 200.<\/a><\/p>\n

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