Drake dropped three albums on May 15, 2026, and one track had everyone concerned about his family.
On “Make Them Cry” from the ICEMAN album, he rapped about his dad battling cancer, but the real story came later when Dennis Graham set the record straight. Graham showed up outside Bar Jubilee in West Hollywood and talked to photographers about what Drake had revealed. He explained that the cancer battle was actually in his past, not his present. The confusion came from Drake’s lyrics on the track. He rapped, “My dad got cancer right now, we battlin’ stages,” using present tense language.
Drake had been working on these three albums for years since his last project, For All the Dogs, in 2023, so the timeline between recording the track and its release created confusion. Drake released ICEMAN alongside two other albums on May 15, including Maid of Honour and Habibti, his first major studio release since 2023, and fans have been diving into the emotional content across all three projects.
Dennis Graham, a Memphis-born musician who once played drums for Jerry Lee Lewis and led his own band, responded to his son’s album release with a heartfelt Instagram post. The post flooded with comments from fans sending prayers and well-wishes to the family, showing how much Drake’s fanbase cares about the people closest to him. Dennis Graham released his own song called “Father and Son” back in 2021 on Father’s Day, a track that honoured the bond between him and his son with lyrics celebrating their unbreakable connection. That song now takes on new meaning given what’s happening in their lives right now, and fans are revisiting it with fresh perspective.