Drake and cryptic Instagram captions have long gone hand in hand, and the latest update from the Iceman-teasing 2026 Grammys nominee certainly marks the latest example of this tendency in action.
Friday (Jan. 9), the 6 God, fresh off trolling Brandon Jennings, shared some brief thoughts aimed at unspecified “people who look up to me,” expressing what very much sounds like disappointment.
“I was expecting people who look up to me to look me in the eyes too,” he wrote. “I thought that’s the least they could do…but I was wrong about them like I was wrong about you.”
Included in the update were a number of images one could easily connect to the presumably imminent arrival of Iceman, Drake’s first new solo album since 2023’s For All the Dogs. The album, recently highlighted by Complex as one of the most anticipated releases of the year, was initially expected to be eyeing a late 2025 release.
In one of the newly shared images, a handwritten note is shown, reading “It’s time to move, isn’t it?”
Another hints at “plotting revenge,” while yet another features a still from High Fidelity showing actor John Cusack delivering the oft-quoted line “What came first, the music or the misery?”
As Fall Out Boy fans will note, the line was later paraphrased in the chorus of “The Music or the Misery,” a track from the Patrick Stump-fronted band’s From Under the Cork Tree era.
Drake paired all of this with a direct Iceman mention on his Stories, like so:
A release date, however, remains a mystery for now. For an overview of what we know about the album so far, see here.