The artist rapped about his father’s illness on his new Iceman album, which released alongside two surprise LPs<\/p>\n
\n\tDrake<\/a> unveiled his long-awaited album, Iceman, on Friday. While the LP \u2014 which dropped alongside surprise albums Habibti\u00a0and\u00a0Maid Of Honour<\/a> \u2014\u00a0sees the rapper offer fans a window into how he felt about the highly publicized feud<\/a> with Kendrick Lamar, it also delves into other personal matters close to the heart.<\/p>\n \n\tOn \u201cMake Them Cry,\u201d the opening track of Iceman, Drake delves into the pressures of fame, money, expectations, and family matters, rapping at one point, \u201cI don\u2019t do psychedelics because I\u2019m too scared of unpacking\/ Sometimes I only see myself in my therapist\u2019s glasses.\u201d At the end of the introspective song, he reveals that his father Dennis Graham, who he raps about in the opening verse, has cancer: \u201cMy dad got cancer right now, we battling stages\/Trust me when I say there\u2019s plenty things I\u2019d rather be facing.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tIn the past, Drake and his father have had a complicated and fraught relationship that in recent years, appears to have reached a public reconciliation. Drake\u2019s mother, Sandi Graham, and father divorced when he young and the artist has been open about how his parents have impacted his childhood and music. <\/p>\n \n\tElsewhere on Iceman, the LP features production from longtime collaborator Noah \u201c40\u201d Shebib as well as a host of names including Overkst, OK, and more. The record also includes collaborations with Future and rising star Molly Santana and is Drake\u2019s ninth solo studio album \u2014 his first since his now infamous war of words with Kendrick Lamar. The album follows his joint R&B project with Partnextdoor\u00a0from last year,\u00a0$ome $exy $ongs 4 U.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artist rapped about his father’s illness on his new Iceman album, which released alongside two surprise LPs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[1447,18,117,19,17,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-485799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-drake","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116578010176127466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}