Drake Won't Submit Three Albums to 2026 Grammys — SkimNews
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- Drake will not submit Iceman, Habibti, or Maid of Honour for the 2026 Grammys, according to a Billboard report.
- Iceman broke Drake's record for the longest run at No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, surpassing the 12-week run of Take Care.
- Drake alludes to the decision on Iceman's closing track "Make Them Know," rapping the line, "This album, I'm never submittin' it."
- The move coincides with Drake's ongoing litigation against UMG, in which he alleges the label promoted Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" despite allegedly defamatory lyrics; a federal judge dismissed the suit last year, and Drake's appeal oral arguments are set for December.
- "Not Like Us" — the diss track at the center of the suit — won five Grammys in 2025, the same awards body Drake is now declining to engage with.
- The boycott extends a years-long pattern: Drake previously declined to submit More Life (2018) and withdrew Certified Lover Boy (2022) and Honestly, Nevermind, while his joint album Her Loss with 21 Savage was submitted for 2024 but lost Best Rap Album to Killer Mike's Michael.
Why it matters: Drake is effectively boycotting the same Grammys that handed "Not Like Us" — the song central to his UMG defamation suit — five wins in 2025, meaning the rapper is withholding his most commercially dominant work (Iceman set a new R&B/Hip-Hop chart record) from the awards body whose recognition amplified the track he's now suing over, with his UMG appeal oral arguments scheduled for December.
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