EVERY Hidden Lyric/Meaning on Drake’s ICEMAN Album EXPLAINED

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]So, I think Ice Man was one of Drake's most lyrical albums. Like, it really seems like Drake took the time to really curate lyrically a very potent album.

[00:00:08]So, we're going to go through some of the best punchlines on this album. Y'all let me know what y'all think of them.

[00:00:17]>> Now, on face value, this seems to just be a very simple line. He's calling people ballerinas. Convenient amnesia.

[00:00:23]Yeah, you're conveniently forgetting what I gave to the rap game. But when we look a little deeper, it's actually very layered. Just this one bar is very layered. The convenient amnesia part is a reference to Jay-Z's song, Can I Live?

[00:00:40]>> So, this line can actually be seen as a diss towards Jay-Z, calling Jay-Z a ballerina. One of the high points in Jay-Z's career was the Summer Jam where he exposed Prodigy of Mob Deep for being a ballerina.

[00:00:52]>> You was a ballerina. I got the pictures.

[00:00:55]I sent you. Then he says, "It doesn't alter what you said or how it made us see you." Now, the way he says see you, it is pronounced sea.

[00:01:05]>> And that's for a reason. There's a pop star named Sea who can often be seen doing ballet. This goes right back to the ballerina line.

[00:01:15]>> Balleras.

[00:01:16]>> So, in just this one bar, it's very loaded. It's very indepth. So, I'm going to start with what I think is one of the most important songs on the album, Firm Friends. And to me, this one song kind of encompasses what the entire album is about.

[00:01:32]>> Kennedy. Now, this is a pretty cryptic reference because he's referring to USA President John Kennedy who was shot to death in public, hence the laying on this girl's laps. I mean, he laid in Jackie Onasses's lap as he died. Drake is saying, "Yeah, my ops are trying to have me just like that. They're trying to have my memories all over my girls lap just like they did to John Kennedy.

[00:01:58]>> MIT.

[00:01:59]>> Right now me and Conductor got more chemistry than MIT. Drake is referring to the producer of the song conductor Williams like yo we got chemistry like MIT. MIT is a college in Massachusetts very well known for technology sciences chemistry MIT. He's saying yo me and conductor Williams are locked in basically. But we're still on the same song, Firm Friends. Drake says >> name.

[00:02:25]>> So here he's referencing the battle versus Kendrick. Kendrick had a bar where he said, >> I'm knowing they call you the boy, but I ain't seen him yet.

[00:02:33]>> I know they call you the boy. Where's the man? I ain't seen him yet. Basically saying, Drake needs to grow up.

[00:02:41]>> This is a direct rebuttal to that line.

[00:02:43]Drake says, "I I will be making the change from the boy to the man, but not in the way you think."

[00:02:52]>> But basically, he's saying he's going to level up business-wise. That's Drake's idea of going from a boy to the man.

[00:02:57]Whereas, when Kendrick said it to him, he was saying like, "Hey, grow up."

[00:03:00]Drake is saying like, "Yeah, I'm going to go from boy to the man, but it's not going to be because I'm immature. It's going to be because I leveled up business-wise."

[00:03:06]>> I am so far gone that a thank me later is useless now. I am so far gone that a Thank Me Later is useless now. So in this bar, Drake references his first breakout mixtape, So Far Gone, and his debut album, Thank Me Later. And here it appears that Drake is referencing his label UMG. We all know Drake is in this battle, him versus the label. But Drake is saying like, "Yo, the whole situation, the lawsuit, the way you guys did me, it's gone so far that going back and trying to salvage things, you guys trying to thank me for what I've done for you, it's too late. CTE from trying me and still they want another hit.

[00:03:40]>> CTE from trying me yet they still want another hit. So it appears that Drake sees himself as ahead in the situation with UMG because he's saying they have CTE. Like y'all I've hit you guys over the head so many times that you have CTE. CTE is like a brain issue. CTE stands for chronic traumatic encphylopathy. Encphylopathy means a disease affecting the brain. He's saying that he's given the label so many losses, so many L's that they have CTE, but they still want another hit.

[00:04:09]>> CT from me and still they want another hit.

[00:04:12]>> Being hit in the head causes CTE. Now, this bar here about his friend Meeks kind of encompasses one of Drake's main issues that he has on this album, which is people turning on him.

[00:04:23]>> Look at me, instance. He's still the same guy.

[00:04:27]>> But Nes seems to be one of few people in Drake's camp who has stood firm in their friendship. He says, "Yo, me and Nicks, we don't even live the same lives. It seems like maybe they don't even talk as often as they could. They live different lives. They're on separate missions, but whenever I see him, he's still the same person in contrast to guys who are mentioned on the album like LeBron James, Demar De Rozan, who Drake feels completely flipped on him." This is an interesting bar right here. mistaking my sons for brothers, but it won't happen again.

[00:04:56]>> He says, "Mistaking my sons for brothers." So, we know in hip-hop to say someone is your son, you're looking at them like they're inferior to you. He's saying, "Yo, this whole time you guys are my sons. You're inferior to me."

[00:05:08]Whereas, I was looking at you as a brother.

[00:05:10]>> Better check your tone. I'm not one of >> next bar he goes on and say like, "Yo, check your tone. I'm not one of your little friends." We all know how parents do. They tell you, "Yo, I'm not one of your little friends. Watch how you talk to me." Drake is now talking to guys who he now realizes are his sons, talking to him like their parent.

[00:05:27]>> What would they do to me if they ever do >> in this bar? Drake seems pretty paranoid. It seems like he's really worried about people's perception of him.

[00:05:34]>> Would they take my chain in my watch or would they take my photo?

[00:05:38]>> What happens if I ever get caught without security? Like what would the general public do to me? Like what would the average person do? Are they pulling up for pictures or would they try to rob or kill me? It seems like something he's pretty paranoid about, especially considering that Drake has been robbed in the past. It seems like something he still has anxiety about to this day.

[00:05:55]>> So, the story goes, it's May 31st, 2009.

[00:05:58]Drake is having dinner in Toronto. They finish dinner. They're leaving the spot.

[00:06:01]He gets to his truck. She gets in. He gets in. Soon as he gets in, two dudes run up on the truck. He runs the watch and chain his necklace that Little Wayne had just given him. They get AP and then they get a couple racks out of his pocket.

[00:06:12]>> Hey y'all, I am a oneman show. I record, edit the video myself, create the thumbnail, everything. So, hitting like and subscribe does help a bunch. Thanks so much. Back to the video. So, one of the first bars on the album, Drake says, >> "I have to father my mother and treat my son's grandfather like my older brother."

[00:06:27]>> He says this on the song Make Them Cry.

[00:06:30]I have to father my mother and treat my son's grandfather like my older brother.

[00:06:36]So, in these bars, in a very roundabout way, Drake is describing to the listener his relationship with his parents. He's saying he has to father his mother. So, it sounds like something may be going on with her healthwise or just in the way that she's able to carry herself dayto-day. It feels like he has to be a parent now to his own mother. Whereas with his father, who he references as his son's grandfather, I mean, his son's grandfather would be his own father.

[00:07:00]>> Treat my son's grandfather like my older brother.

[00:07:03]>> It seems like he views his dad as more like a peer, not so much like a parent, but more like a brother, and that the relationship is more casual. And it might feel weird at first that Drake is getting super personal with us in this way. He's describing his relationship with his parents. But in this bar, Drake says, >> "When I dig deep, they say dig deeper."

[00:07:22]>> And the context of the bar is Drake and 40's relationship. 40 o40 is Drake's longtime producer and friend. And it seems like 40 is pushing Drake to dig deeper in his music.

[00:07:34]>> Basically saying, "I got to do it. I got to dig deep.

[00:07:37]>> I know you went through what you went to, but yo, this is the time to dig deep. this is the time to go harder. So, it seems like 40 is really challenging Drake musically to excel and to get over that hurdle. So, it's not surprising that Drake opens the album with such deep bars about his parents.

[00:07:53]>> They know you thorough with bread, but there's some [ __ ] you got to pony up to.

[00:07:56]>> Now, obviously, there is the thoroughb bread punch line here. I know you're thorough with bread. There's some stuff you got to pony up to. Obviously, a thoroughb bread. This is a racehorse.

[00:08:06]Pony up to pony horses. Thoroughbreds.

[00:08:09]It all ties into each other. But at the same time, it seems like 40 is saying, "Hey, Drake, I like I know you're rich.

[00:08:14]I know you've got everything, but now is a time where we need to improve and challenge ourselves in a different way."

[00:08:21]So, it seems like that's what Drake does on this song and throughout the album.

[00:08:24]He's trying to dig deep, but specifically on this song. And Drake gets more introspective.

[00:08:32]>> Like, did >> he say, "All I can think about is a mountain to climb." And the conversation surrounded my music like did Twin Peak?

[00:08:40]There's a Twin Peaks mountain reference.

[00:08:42]The line is a double entandra. The second meaning being did he peak?

[00:08:46]Basically a synonym for Drake. Did Twin Peak? Did Drake peak? So Drake is acknowledging the fact that people are looking at his recent music as falling off.

[00:08:54]>> My brother sold his chain and said that someone >> for me this is one of the standout moments on the album and it's not because it's super lyrical, but it's just the realness in the bars. so desperate and our life is going fantastic.

[00:09:07]>> Drake describes one of his friends selling their OO chain that Drake gave him even though allegedly according to Drake his life is going fantastic.

[00:09:18]>> But why did he sell the chain? And this is something we never really get an answer to. Like if his life is going fantastic, why did he sell the chain?

[00:09:25]But what we do come to understand is that Drake sees this as a ultimate sign of betrayal.

[00:09:30]>> The only thing that has ever mattered. I can never forgive such a nefarious action.

[00:09:35]>> And within the context of the album, it just reinforces this feeling that Drake has that people are betraying him. His friends, people he knows, they're turning their back on him. They're betraying him. They're doing things that really makes him question their relationship.

[00:09:51]>> I'm dropping radioactive.

[00:09:54]>> Now, again, this is another simple bar, but effective radioactive toxins. You put toxic material in radioactive bins.

[00:10:01]But there's also a double meaning on the word radioactive. So the toxic stuff is the Iceman album itself. I mean this is an album full of disses. So yeah, this is Drake's new toxic that he's referencing in this bar. And then the word radioactive has double meaning. My stuff is going to be so good that it's going to be active on the radio.

[00:10:20]Radioactive.

[00:10:22]manipulation when I pay your rent and that is our obligation attachment.

[00:10:27]>> Drake is describing a relationship with a woman and he's admitting that he manipulates her by paying her rent and buying her luxury items. Basically making her dependent on him.

[00:10:40]>> But then this girl is still going off sleeping with other guys. So it's kind of like they're using each other. This is something that happens in Drake's music often. like does these foul things to women or like these manipulative things and then they do it back to him and then he just gets so offended as if he's also not playing these type of games with her. At the end of the bar he says >> sis, you got to be kidding like nephews and nieces.

[00:11:00]>> Nephews, nieces, these are kids. He starts the bar with sis. Yeah, your sister's kids are going to be nephews and nieces. That's how it all ties in.

[00:11:09]Sis, kidding, nephews, nieces. On the song Dust, Drake makes maybe the first of three separate cryptocurrency references on this Iceman album.

[00:11:20]>> Samuel Bank been freed. He's currently in prison for defrauding clients on his crypto exchange FTX. And of course, Drake mentions FTX in the first bar.

[00:11:30]>> FTX, >> the constant Bitcoin references. It kind of just reminds me of what Kendrick Lamar said on whacked out murals.

[00:11:38]promising bank transactions and even Bitcoin.

[00:11:41]>> Basically, Kendrick is saying Drake was fishing for information on him and he was promising to pay guys in Bitcoin.

[00:11:48]And the fact that Drake is he mentions Bitcoin so much on this album, it makes you think like, man, maybe that was true.

[00:11:54]>> My white label had to go white label [ __ ] when he stepped out his body and finally got >> So, I actually covered this lyric in my other video, but there have been reports that there are other meanings. Now, obviously, this is a Kendrick Lamar disc. If you want to see me go over all the disses on this album, I did a video on it already. Definitely go check that out after you watch this one. But Drake is referencing his white label, his whiteowned label, UMG. So Drake could be using the term white label as a replacement for the term white list.

[00:12:21]Whitelist basically means certain entities are giving preapproval to operate. And in the context of Kendrick Lamar's disc records essentially being whitelisted for YouTube content creators to react to and be monetized with, this can be seen as a huge disadvantage for Drake. Essentially, Drake is saying his white label UMG went ahead and whitelisted Kendrick Lamar's disc records towards him because they saw he had a little steam and that he could possibly take down Drake. content creators on YouTube were given the green light that they can react to these songs on their channel and monetized him, which Drake views as a disadvantage because he didn't get that same treatment. So, obviously, if you're a content creator and you can react to these popular songs and earn money off of them, you're going to do it. So, some people would say that Drake views that as a disadvantage because he was not allowed that same whitelisting white label.

[00:13:12]>> Now, I'm not sure if this bar is a flex.

[00:13:15]Drake says, "My new thing, she don't know how I live." She's shopping at Arowan. To me, it seems that Drake is lowkey [ __ ] on Arowan. If you don't know Arowan, it's a very high-end grocery store in LA. They have one in Calabasas. Also, >> don't know how.

[00:13:31]>> The way Drake delivers the bar, it almost seems like he thinks Arowan is below him. I mean, this is Arowan with $20 smoothies. The prices are ridiculous. So my thing is Drake, if you not shopping at Arowan, where where are you getting your groceries? Oh, private chefs. You going straight to the farm and getting it right out the crops.

[00:13:54]>> Now, at face value, this seems like a very basic bar. You dudes be hitting the net for love. You're a tennis ball. I think every person is going to understand hitting the net for love.

[00:14:05]Obviously, he's saying, "You guys are going on the internet to get loved. I get love in real life. Y'all got to go to the internet to get love. You're a tennis ball. But what takes this bar a level up is the love reference.

[00:14:19]>> In the game of tennis, if you have zero points, zero is known as love.

[00:14:24]>> Why do we say love instead of zero? The shape of zero is essentially the shape of an eight. Speaking French, people used to say love.

[00:14:31]>> So the love reference is what elevates this bar just a bit higher. And this isn't the first time Drake has done this tennis love reference. He has a song called Uptown.

[00:14:48]>> Now, this is also another double meaning. This is what I'm saying about this album. A lot of double meanings. It It seems like Drake really sat there and really really put his pen to the test.

[00:14:56]Now, MRA machine scanning my knee. Could he be referencing that time he fell off of stage? Y'all remember when Drake fell off the stage? So, maybe he's still having complications from that. Next bar he says >> like yo I've been I've been running the streets running the game so long my knee hurts. It's like another way to say you've been putting the game on your back.

[00:15:20]>> I just think this bar is just so crazy.

[00:15:25]>> He rhymes.

[00:15:27]Look at this word. How do you rhyme this? Now this is an Arabic word.

[00:15:34]I'm back with Taliban.

[00:15:36]>> Taliban. This is a Middle Eastern group, but keep in mind that this is on the song with Future, who often refers to him and his crew as Taliban. He says, "Yo, I'm back with Taliban." She said, and this is actually one of many references that Drake makes on this album to the Middle East, Persian Girls.

[00:15:52]She's speaking far.

[00:15:58]>> So, here Drake takes a shot at ICE, the immigration and customs enforcement.

[00:16:02]ICE. They've taken a lot of heat for what they've done to people over the past couple years. Drake calls them fake feds. Like, yo, you're not real cops.

[00:16:09]Basically, your two bit police. Rena cops.

[00:16:12]>> We top FLIGHT SECURITY OF THE WORLD, CRAIG.

[00:16:15]>> ST. JOHN.

[00:16:17]>> This is just a crazy bar. I went St. John Baptiste on a lamb. Obviously, the lamb he's referencing Lamborghini. To really understand this bar, you don't have to know too much about St. John the Baptist. You just got to know how he passed. They cut his head off for talking against the throne. He was beheaded. They cut his head off.

[00:16:38]>> Drake is basically saying he dropped the top on a Lamborghini. So, the next couple bars are going to be off the song Make Them Pay. It's probably my favorite song on the album. It's one of the more lyrical songs on the album. Also, >> Philly.

[00:16:51]>> I Face the Way They Pay Me, but it hurts just like the Philly Eagles. This is a reference to the NFL team, the Philadelphia Eagles. Their quarterback's name is Jaylen Herz. And yeah, he paints his face. My face the way they paint me, but it hurts just like the Philly Eagles.

[00:17:07]>> Don't be surprised you see the whole YM CA just like the Village.

[00:17:11]>> Don't be surprised when you see the whole YM and CA like the Village People.

[00:17:16]So Drake's arch rival Kendrick Lamar is from California. But Dragusan, regardless of my arch nemesis being from California, I could still bring the whole Young Money Y to California and be okay. Y MCA. The Village People have a classic, very popular record called >> YMCA.

[00:17:36]>> YMCA.

[00:17:38]>> I rack up a tab in Chanel cuz I do everything like >> So here we got the Middle Eastern bars.

[00:17:44]I rack up a tab in Chanel cuz I do buy everything like I'm Middle Eastern. I'm supposed to be my brother's keeper, so don't make us hit another buzzer beater.

[00:17:53]>> Now, I could be reaching here, but this almost seems like a disc to the weekend.

[00:17:57]Drake says, "I'm supposed to be my brother's keeper, so don't make us hit another buzzer beater." I can only assume the buzzer beater refers to like Drake getting one of his shooters to do something to someone. But it's the brother's keeper part that kind of makes me think it's about the weekend. The weekend and Drake are both from Toronto, so they are brothers. And I think this could double as a biblical reference to the story of Cain and Abel, where it's basically a story about a dispute between brothers, Cain and Abel. What is the weekend's real name? Abelout.

[00:18:28]>> One of the more funny lyrics on the entire album.

[00:18:34]>> Drake references a couple of corn stars, Cherokee, and Sky Black. Now, the funny thing about this is Cherokee actually responded to this bar and it seems like she's got a guilty conscience or something. All he said was, "You guys were at the same party." So, it seems like she for sure has a guilty conscious about what happened that night. She basically said something like, "Yo, you're referencing something that happened 20 years ago. You're corny or whatever." I don't know why she responded like that because like she wasn't dissed here. All Drake said was they showed up to his birthday. But the way Cherokee responded made it seem like something happened. Well, I don't think Drake meant it that way. I think Cherokee responding that way kind of makes it weirder. Like, okay, then what happened? Like, why are you so mad about him mentioning this? It makes you think that something happened.

[00:19:20]>> Bahamas is right next to Lebanese.

[00:19:23]>> So, this is another Middle Eastern reference. Drake is referencing some property he owns in the Bahamas. And apparently, Michael Jordan owns property right next to his. My property is right next to Michael Jordan's like I'm Lebanese. It's a Middle Eastern reference because the countries Lebanon and Jordan are right next to each other.

[00:19:45]>> Sean just continues this ongoing theme of the album referencing fake friends.

[00:19:50]Y'all was for sale. Y'all turned on me.

[00:19:52]Double meaning on the word sale. Look at a map. You see the seven C's. You sell across them. But let me find out.

[00:20:02]>> So this is a black card reference. It's a little flex. Amex is American Express.

[00:20:07]They make the black card which is a credit card. It's a play on the word credit.

[00:20:10]>> My sense is kicking in cuz all I hear is people that are dead to me.

[00:20:14]>> Here Drake references the six sense which is actually how Kendrick begins the song not like us.

[00:20:22]>> I see dead people.

[00:20:23]>> Yeah, that's referencing the movie the six sense.

[00:20:26]>> I see dead people. It's a movie about paranormal activity.

[00:20:31]>> All I hear is people that are dead to me.

[00:20:33]>> So that's why Drake says, "All I hear is people that are dead to me." Now on the song Burning Bridges, this entire song is basically just a disc to ASAP Rocky.

[00:20:42]But the song starts off with this serenade.

[00:20:45]>> I swear >> where many people believe that Drake is telling the story of why him and Rihanna broke up.

[00:20:53]>> I know it's your dream to start a family in LA. I just can't move away.

[00:20:58]>> She wanted to start a family in LA.

[00:21:00]Drake did not want to leave Toronto and this is basically why they broke up.

[00:21:04]Now, obviously, ASAP Rocky and Rihanna are an item now. So, before Drake starts dissing ASAP Rocky, he tells ASAP Rocky the story of why him and Rihanna broke up. Now, it's interesting because allegedly ASAP Rocky and Rihanna's family house is in LA. So, the way Drake is telling it is, you know, she couldn't have the family with me in LA cuz I didn't want to leave where I was. So she went and found you basically ASAP Rocky.

[00:21:27]You were her second option.

[00:21:30]>> [ __ ] Let me hit you off the lobby.

[00:21:32]>> This is one of those subtle flexes that Drake does. Jay-Z also does them a lot.

[00:21:37]Push a T2. These subtle like nuanced flexes. Drake says, "I can't hit you off my iPhone, so let me hit you off the lobby phone." So it seems like some, let's say, some less than savory activity that you do not want to have on your personal cell phone is happening.

[00:21:52]So Drake is like, "Yo, before we have this conversation, I'mma get off my personal phone. We going to go to the lobby phone." So Drake seems to be at some hotel or some resort. There's a song on this album where he mentions he's at the Bulgary in Turkey. Very high-end resort. I'm talking higher than the Ritz Carlton, higher than the Four Seasons. And here's the flex. Nowadays, hotels don't really have lobby phones for customer use. It's it's really only high-end resorts that still have the lobby phone where residents can go down and use it. So, it's like a very subtle flex while also maintaining that he's on some boss stuff. This conversation is about to get so deep I can't have it on my personal phone. I'mma hit you on a lobby phone. So, it's a flex in two ways.

[00:22:35]>> Now, this reminds me of a bar that Rock Marciano would rap on such a serious album. Drake has a couple funny bars like this, like the Cherokee bar and obviously this one. You might take a stick off of like they transitioning.

[00:22:49]This is pretty self-explanatory and I'm not trying to get flagged on YouTube, so I'mma let y'all break that one down.

[00:22:58]>> Another Bitcoin reference. Y'all let me know if I'm tripping. Another Bitcoin reference. It's on the song, What Did I Miss? Drake is talking about payback. He said, "I could be up sometimes, I could be down." He compares it to the volatility of Bitcoin. It's up some weeks, some weeks is down.

[00:23:15]Now, >> this is one of the disses that I missed in my other video, but it seems like this is meant for metro booming.

[00:23:22]>> BPM.

[00:23:23]>> Drake says, "Yo, I'll beat on a producer." Like, what's the BPM? Most instrumentals are measured in BPM. BPM stands for beats per minute. Drake is saying, "I'll put the beats per minute on a producer. How many beats per minute do we got to give to We not saying it's Metro, but it sounds like it could be for Metro. when they was asking about where Davidson was at. Now everybody got a blue 30 on their back >> here. Drake shouts out Steph Curry who seems to be like one of the few people that he's still cool with. You know, after the Kendrick battle, he references Steph Curry's College Davidson and the blue 30, which is a number that Steph Curry wears.

[00:23:58]>> Turbulent flights dodging cumulus cls.

[00:24:01]>> So I love the vocabulary here. Turbulent flights dodging cumulus clouds. So cumulus clouds actually cause a lot of turbulence in flights.

[00:24:13]No, no, no, no. It's a cloud.

[00:24:16]>> It's a cloud.

[00:24:17]>> I mean, a bar like this, you got to imagine Drake wrote it on an airplane.

[00:24:21]>> Drawing a line, but we at the root of it now.

[00:24:23]>> Squares drawn on the line, but we're at the root of it now. So, we have a square root. He's calling people squares. Like, yo, we found all the fake friends.

[00:24:31]Again, this is a this is a theme of Iceman, the fake friends. We found the squares, labeled them. Now we're at the root of what the issue what the betrayal is.

[00:24:45]>> So this is a play on the word grooming.

[00:24:47]Drake has some pretty heinous allegations put on him. Basically grooming PDF grooming kids. Drake takes that word grooming and expands it. Comb through this hair. Comb hair. Grooming.

[00:24:57]Before you cut me cut grooming for a new recruit. Drake is saying, "Hey, before you try to tell me that I'm grooming somebody, really go through my history.

[00:25:05]comb through my history before you try to cancel me, cut me for somebody else, for somebody new like Kendrick. Don't let Kendrick take my spot because of these grooming allegations.

[00:25:19]>> In 2025, you had the Toronto Blue Jays and the LA Dodgers playing in the World Series. So obviously Kendrick Lamar, LA Dodgers, Drake Toronto Blue Jays. These are their hometowns. Drake gives us a bar, a baseball bar on the heels of that World Series.

[00:25:38]>> Says, "Dogger a troop." This obviously a reference to the Dodgers, but finally managed to get a hit that let you run base. Now, the very obvious reference here is Drake is talking about Kendrick.

[00:25:48]You finally got a hit thanks to me. The not like us that let you run base. Also sticking with the baseball reference because in baseball when you get a hit, you run the bases. But there's also a military reference in this bar also.

[00:26:05]>> Dodge a troop run base. Troops in the military. Military base. Almost a triple entandra here.

[00:26:15]>> People sought you out at first, but you needed him so you out at home now just like a double play. This is a crazy baseball reference. So Drake is saying, "Hey, you you finally got a hit with not like us. A hit that let you run a base."

[00:26:27]And people sought you out like like the general public. They was messing with your music. Now they're looking for you.

[00:26:32]They're giving you the Super Bowl halftime show. They're listening to the GNX album. They sought you out at first.

[00:26:37]First is also referencing in baseball first base. When you first get a hit, you got to pass first base.

[00:26:46]>> He said, "But you needed me though, so you out at home now just like a double play." So Drake is saying, "Hey, even though you got your hit, people started seeking you out, but because you can't make any more hits off of me, you're back at home. You're not on the road anymore. You're not outside with music, you're back at home because you can't continue to talk about me to get a hit like last time." Continuing the baseball reference, Drake says, "Kendrick, you're out at home and you were out at first.

[00:27:14]That makes it a double play." Full circle. How did that LA Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays World Series end? two pitch bounces one up the middle bits to the back over the face TO BEAT THE CHAMP. YOU GOT TO KNOCK HIM OUT.

[00:27:28]>> It ended on a double play.

[00:27:30]>> Anybody added more lemons to the lemonade?

[00:27:32]>> So this bar is said within the context of Drake taking the bad things that happened to him and basically making lemonade out of lemons. This is a popular saying.

[00:27:40]>> When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

[00:27:44]>> When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Right? When life gives you something sour that it's not really palatable like lemons. Yo, make make something edible out of it. We going to make lemonade out of this. It's basically Drake saying, "Yo, we're going to take the bad and make something good out of it." People just keep handing him lemons. Bad news. So, he's saying people are adding more lemons to the lemonade.

[00:28:03]His friends turning on him, etc. Trying to sour the vibes. Basically trying to put a damper on his career.

[00:28:09]>> I'm 16 years in the game. This ain't >> he says it's not going to be that easy cuz he's 16 years in the game. This ain't Minute Made. So there's a double entandra. This ain't overnight.

[00:28:20]Basically, you can't kill my career that easily because it wasn't made overnight.

[00:28:25]Minute Made is also a reference to the beverage company who makes lemonade.

[00:28:34]>> Here Drake is referencing the battle with Kendrick, but he's not dissing Kendrick here. He's saying like, "Yo, to even match what Kendrick did on not like us, like I just have to lie like he did.

[00:28:44]I will have to just create things out of thin air like he did, which Drake probably believes he's too big to do. He has too much honor to even lie like he feels Kendrick did.

[00:28:53]>> So I don't know if these are wins or not based on what's suitable now.

[00:28:56]>> So he says, "Yo, it feels like I got to lie to even tie." So I don't even know if these are wins or not based on what's suitable. So Drake is kind of questioning the whole angle that was taken on him. Do y'all consider that a win for Kendrick because he lied or is it a win for me because I didn't lie?

[00:29:13]He's questioning like what's a win in this climate. But there's also a play on the word tie. One of the most popular ways to tie a tie is called the winds or not. Double antandra right here. This Iceman is full of double antandras. And in these next couple bars we're going to look at it seems that Drake is referencing UMG, his record label again.

[00:29:33]>> The lawsuit I got is fried.

[00:29:37]says, "Yo, this lawsuit I got is fried until the R is switched with the Ira, >> but then they'll frame it as some people retired." So, right now, the status of Drake's lawsuit as I make this video like he basically lost, right? So, Drake is acknowledging that's what it looks like, but it seems like he's saying that's not what it actually is, but it seems like Drake is suggesting that people at UMG are going to start being fired because of what happened with this lawsuit. But to the public, it's just going to look like that people are retiring. Oh, this person resigned. This person retired. In reality, behind the scenes, what actually happened is people are getting fired because of how things happen. Now, I I don't know Drake's larger plan here, but he reinforces what he's saying with the next bar.

[00:30:23]>> So, it seems like Drake foresees some form of settlement or payout from UMG in his future. And Drake continues, >> actal, but they'll pay me for changing their mind.

[00:30:34]>> They'll act like I lost my appeal, but they'll pay me for changing my mind. And lastly, and I think a perfect end to this video, >> what happened to Drake from 2009 when all of the moments was intimate?

[00:30:45]>> Drake questions, what happened to me from 2009? Right? It almost seems like Drake has gone and watched an old interview of himself. And right now it's just for me it's about being humble, keeping relationships up with everybody and just letting everybody know that no matter you know how big this gets like I'm always here. You know >> what happened to that person?

[00:31:05]>> What happened to Drake with their innocence? I don't think we'll be seeing him again.

[00:31:09]>> All the moments were so intimate, you know, before I really got to know some of the people who are enemies to me now.

[00:31:14]When I first met them, everything seemed so innocent. What happened to Drake with the innocence? I don't think we'll be seeing him again.

[00:31:23]So very introspective into the album. So to end the album with those bars, it seems like Drake dug as much as he could. So yeah, some of the hidden lyrics, punchlines on Ice Man. I think this is one of the albums where Drake tried his hardest lyrically.

[00:31:38]Before I end this video, I just remembered I forgot to mention my favorite punchline on the entire album.

[00:31:48]>> The triple entandra, bro. So, real quick, when you see the ice man, what you going to do except freeze. Freeze meaning freeze, ice cold. Freeze meaning when you see me, you're going to be shooken up. You're going to be shaken, shocked, and freeze being the police command referencing back to ice. What do police do when they draw their guns on you? Freeze. Get on the ground. Triple antandra. All right. Sorry, just had to mention that cuz that is a nasty triple antandra. I don't think every punchline that I read was like the dopest thing of all time. I mean, I think there were some punchlines that could have been better, but I also think there were some that were really good and also really good lyrics and good context. Are you impressed with the lyrics on this album or is it not up to your standard? Let me know in the comments. That's all I got for today. Top five rapwebsite.com.

[00:32:35]Peace.