Drake has announced plans to release a new project called Scary Hours 3, extending the most prolific — and creatively fertile, according to the man himself — run of his career.
Despite having just released his eighth studio album For All the Dogs in early October, the Toronto superstar revealed on Thursday (November 16) that Scary Hours 3 will be available in less than 24 hours, hitting streaming services on Friday (November 17) at midnight.
Drizzy shared an almost two-minute-long trailer for the EP on Instagram featuring cinematic shots of Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall and a monologue about his ongoing purple patch.
“I’ll say this to you: I feel no need to appease anybody,” he says. “I feel so confident about the body of work that I just dropped that I know I could go and disappear for, whatever, six months, a year, two years. Even though I’m not really, like, into the super lengthy disappearances for the sake of mystery.
“You know, ultimately, it’s coming to me in a way that I haven’t experienced maybe since, like, If You’re Reading This…, where I feel like I’m on drugs. I feel like I’m in that mental state without doing anything. I did those songs in the last five days! I didn’t have one bar written down for those songs on the night that For All the Dogs dropped!”
“It’s not like I’m picking up from some unfinished shit; it’s happening on its own,” he adds. “Who am I to fight it, right? And to fight back against the right thing would be, well, you know.”
The video then cuts to an orchestra, led by a conductor, playing dramatic music before the camera zooms in on a regal invitation that reads: “October’s Very Own & The Boy Present: Scary Hours 3. Executive Producers: Noel Cadastre, Aubrey Graham, Kevin Durant.”
Scary Hours 3 serves as the third installment in Drake’s EP series which began in 2018. That first release contained his diamond-certified hit “God’s Plan,” as well as “Diplomatic Immunity,” while 2021’s Scary Hours 2 boasted collaborations with Lil Baby and Rick Ross.
It’s unclear if this latest offering will feature any big-name guests or how many songs it will have.
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