I'm not even trolling when I say that I often forget that Drake and J Cole are planning to drop albums.
Drake's rollout for Iceman has been awful since August. His post WDIM songs have been mid and unremarkable. They sounded like throwaways that he was dropping to test the waters and see the reception. Once the song with Yeat got trashed across the board, he stopped dropping singles and people seemed to have moved on outside his stan base.
Honestly, if I were Drake, I wouldn't include any of the singles and loosies he dropped. Not even WDIM which lost a lot of momentum. Those other tracks were forgettable slop that came and went.
Unlike Wayne who completely lost his musical ear, Drake still has a chance to make something as least on par with Her Loss but most of the songs he dropped in 2025 were mediocre slop. It's telling that Drake dropped more songs than most rappers this year yet his fans agree with him about the rap climate being "dry" despite all his efforts.