Drake shouts out... SBF?! 🤔

Rapper and famed Bitcoin fan Drake is back with a trio of albums, including one with a surprising call for the release of the disgraced FTX founder.

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Andrew Hayward
May 16, 2026

đź“ť What you need to know

Drake’s new album came out Friday—scratch that, Drake’s three new albums came out Friday, and one of them, “Iceman,” has a surprising shoutout to one Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced FTX founder who’s currently sitting in prison after defrauding customers for billions.

“An FTX penthouse high-riser, yeah,” Drake raps. “Samuel Bankman, free all my guys up, yeah.” Drake also refers to himself as “a BTC crypto big-timer” in the same song.

Drake is a noted crypto fan who has shown off his blinged-out Ledger and Bitcoin-based sports bets on social media, plus he promotes Stake, the crypto-fueled online casino that has seen him named in lawsuits. His new albums haven’t been very well received, however, with The Guardian calling the trio a “boring, bloated disaster.”

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