Drake took the Iceman rollout to another level on Monday (April 20) by having a massive ice structure built in a downtown Toronto parking lot. The 6 God revealed that the Iceman release date is hidden inside the ice block, and fans immediately got to work attempting to melt the structure — crafted by MAWG Design — comprised of one million pounds of ice. They pulled out ice picks, blowtorches and lighters to expedite the thawing process in a bid to finally unlock the long-awaited release date.
Monday night became an event and an unofficial meet-up for OVO fans, with about 800 people gathering, per CP24, prompting police to be called for crowd control around midnight. Drake is hiding the Iceman release date inside an ice block in Toronto 🤔 🧊 🦉 pic.twitter.com/WIiBI5t4YT— billboard hip-hop/r&b (@billboardhiphop) April 20, 2026 The fire department was called to the scene as well, as fans had even started mini campfires while hanging out on top of the massive ice structure. Another viral heartfelt moment came when content creator/influencer MDmotivator (Zachery Dereniowski) stopped by and hid a pair of new car keys on top of the ice, which were found by a teenage Drake fan, who had been working toward buying his first car.
“MD THE FUCKING GOAT,” Drake wrote in the comments. “THIS ALBUM BOUT TO PLAY INFINTESEMALLY KNOW DAT!” View this post on Instagram With temperatures climbing in the coming days, CP24 Meteorologist Bill Coulter doesn’t think fans will have to wait much longer for the ice to thaw and finally unlock the Iceman release date. “In the next couple days, as we get up to the mid-upper teens, if the sun is beaming down, you are going to see some significant melt.
You won’t see much today, we have a lot of cloud up there and is still a cool day,” Coulter said. “But it will be easy to tell. If you go out tomorrow and see how much it goes by down tomorrow, you can almost replicate how much it will go down by on Thursday.” It’s been two-and-a-half years since Drake’s last solo album, 2023’s For all the Dogs, which topped the Billboard 200.
After a series of teasers from the OVO boss, it appears that Iceman season is finally on the horizon. Billboard has reached out to the Toronto Police Service for comment.