Drake dropped a new three-song EP called “Scary Hours 2” at midnight: he also dropped a new video and — to top it all off — a new 24-hour fully curated radio channel.
With short notice on Thursday night, the man who has been setting hip-hop trends for the past 11 years shared on his Twitter and Instagram feeds that he’d be appearing on SIRIUS-XM satellite radio at 10:30 p.m. to debut his new EP with his co-host and manager Oliver El-Khatib to launch Sound 42 via their flagship program OVO Sound Radio, formerly on Apple Music. Considering that several deadlines for Drake’s highly anticipated and previously announced “Certified Lover Boy” album have come and gone following the May 2020 release of The Dark Lane Demo Tapes — and that the pandemic and what seemed to be an injury had laid the singing rapper low for a while — the 24-hour notice of the release of “Scary Hours 2” and what that might contain had his fans in a frenzy of speculation.