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.
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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.
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“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.”
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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.”
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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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The OVO Sound hitmaker first announced he was working on Scary Hours 3 last summer following the release of his house-influenced album Honestly, Nevermind.
“I got another Scary Hours pack coming too in a little bit,” he said during an episode of his SiriusXM radio show Table For One. “Maybe not right now [laughs]. I need you to just take this in right now, but I have a Scary Hours. I’ma slap some headtops off with this Scary Hours pack.”
Drake’s decision to drop a new project comes as a bit of a surprise considering he had recently indicated he was planning to take a break from the studio to focus on his health.
“I probably won’t make music for a little bit,” he told fans the day For All the Dogs was released. “I need to focus on my health first and foremost … I’ve been having the craziest problems for years with my stomach. I need to get right.
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“I have a lot of other things that I’d like to focus on, so I’m going to lock the door on the studio for a little bit. I don’t even know what ‘a little bit’ is. Maybe a year or something, maybe a little longer.”
Music isn’t entirely out of the equation for Drizzy, who is set to embark on a joint tour with J. Cole early next year. Announced earlier this week, the It’s All a Blur — Big As the What? Tour will take the Hip Hop heavyweights across smaller cities in the U.S. between January 18 and March 27.
