Drake Uses Make Them Pay Drake to Name-Check Adin Ross
Drake name-dropped Adin Ross on make them pay drake during the Iceman Episode 4 premiere on YouTube on Thursday night, May 14, and Ross heard it in real time on his own livestream. The reference landed immediately: Ross screamed, then went straight from disbelief to celebration before Drake later FaceTimed him.
Iceman Episode 4
Drake rapped, "Dawg, I was Adin Ross with streams before Adin Ross had ever streamed." That line gave the livestreamer a direct place inside the rollout for Iceman, and Ross's first reaction told the story better than any commentary could. "What the fuck?" he shouted, then followed with, "Yo! Holy shit. What the fuck? I made it!"
Adin Ross on stream
Ross kept pressing on the fact that he had not been tipped off. "Chat, on my mom and dad’s life—on my sister’s, on everything, I didn’t know I was there. I swear to God, he never told me. That’s crazy," he said. The brief surprise turned into a live endorsement when Drake hopped on FaceTime, and Ross told him, "Hey bro, you did it. The entire chat, the entire world—you did it, bro." He added, "I love you."
Three albums, one rollout
Friday night, May 15 brought three new albums from Drake: Iceman, Maid of Honour, and Habibti. That made the drop his first solo studio albums since For All the Dogs in October 2023, with a Scary Hours edition arriving a month later. The new music also landed after his feud with Kendrick Lamar made headlines in the summer of 2024, which gives the Adin Ross shoutout a place inside a larger reset rather than a one-off name check.
Drake also called out DJ Khaled on the same track for his lack of public support of Palestine, and a cluster of names showed up during the livestream, including DJ Akademiks, BenDaDonn, Shane Gillis, Stunna Sandy, and Chromazz. For Ross, the immediate takeaway is simple: he was not just mentioned by one of rap’s biggest names, he was brought into the rollout live, then put on the phone with Drake while the moment was still unfolding.
