Drake apparently looked at the music industry calendar and decided: why drop one album when you can emotionally overwhelm everyone with three?
In a surprise announcement that sent fans rushing to streaming apps and group chats, the rapper revealed that he would be releasing not one, not two, but three albums at midnight on Friday, May 15.
And even if titles like Iceman And Bridesmaid already aroused curiosity, it was Habibti which instantly invaded social networks.
What does Habibti really mean?
The word comes from Arabic and is commonly used as a term of endearment towards a woman. Pronounced ha-beeb-tee, it roughly translates to “my love,” “my darling,” or “my dear.”
The male version is “Habibi” — a word Drake fans probably just learned five minutes ago before confidently tweeting about it.
Naturally, the Internet has already declared this to be its “soft launch era.”
This triple release marks the first deployment of a Drake solo project since For all dogsand fans are convinced that he enters a completely different mood this time – somewhere between luxurious sadness and emotionally unavailable poetry.
And because it’s Drake, there’s already controversy before the albums even arrive.
His track disclosed 1:00 a.m. in Albany recently fueled speculation that he took lyrical jabs at LeBron James, Kendrick Lamar and J.Cole.
So yes, fans are bracing themselves for some disses over feelings, Instagram captions, and at least one song that will ruin someone’s situation by Saturday morning.
