Drake Leaks LeBron James Shot on 1AM in Albany — Is Iceman Out
Drake’s apparent leaked song from Iceman puts is iceman out back at the center of the rollout. The track surfaced late Wednesday night into Thursday morning and includes lyrics aimed at LeBron James, with a direct line about “switching teams up.”
Friday is already circled for Iceman, Drake’s ninth album and his first solo release since For All The Dogs in October 2023. The leak shifts attention from the album date to who he is taking aim at before it arrives.
Drake’s 1AM in Albany Leak
The rumored title of the song is “1AM in Albany,” and it fits Drake’s long-running city-and-time series that began with “9AM in Dallas” in 2009. The leak also includes apparent shots at Kendrick Lamar, keeping the record tied to the feud that stretched from 2024 into last year.
One line makes the LeBron reference hard to miss: “I shouldn’t even be shocked to see you in that arena, because you always made your career off of switching teams up,” Drake rapped in the leaked song. That wording points straight at James’ path from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Miami Heat, back to the Cavs, and then to the Los Angeles Lakers.
LeBron James and Kendrick Lamar
Drake and James were once very good friends, and their public history goes back years. James took the stage during one of Drake’s concerts years ago, and they were also seen together on March 18, 2022, after an NBA game between the Toronto Raptors and the Los Angeles Lakers at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, plus on Nov. 25, 2015, during a game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Raptors at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
The other lyric that has spread with the leak pushes the split narrative further: “please stop asking what’s going on with 23 and me. I’m a real n----, and he’s not, it’s in my DNA,” Drake rapped. James began to show more loyalty to Kendrick during the rap beef that stretched from 2024 into last year, and Lamar performed during the Super Bowl halftime show.
For Drake, the leak does two things at once: it puts a fresh spotlight on an album that will be his first solo project since October 2023, and it turns the Friday release of Iceman into a test of how much more he plans to say. If the track stays attached to the rollout, the James line will hang over the album before listeners hear anything else.
