One final image that raised the eyebrow of Drake’s followers was a photo of OVO merch with the phrase “Free The Man Dem.” Typically, this would likely refer to incarcerated friends. But without context fans are lost as to who Drake could be talking about.

In a surprising move, the Recording Academy decided to pull a clip from the 2025 Grammy Awards ceremony that showed the audience singing along to the “A-minor” lyric from Kendrick Lamar’s track “Not Like Us.

Drake just cryptically teased fans about his next chapter in a mysterious post on social media. “U know I grew up non confrontational and always treated this game as a sport where my pen won gold, but my these days the podium has been hard for all of us to ignore,