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.”
Check it out below:
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.
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.
“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.
Clearly the biggest artist in the world for a long while now.
Said no one ever. Never once met a drake fan
Since you’re so big on sales… you must be a pretty big Taylor Swift fan then right? Taylor Swift’s last album, which was basically a re-release of an older album, sold 1.5 million first week. That is almost 4 times the amount Drake’s most recent album sold. She is now worth over a billion dollars. I’m sure we could find you at both of their concerts since they have the same kind of fanbase. The sad thing is I have a feeling you’re not a 14 year old girl though and you still listen to this garbage haha
Lol @ hiatus. Last album was dog shit and he sounds butthurt on that trailer 🤣
We can tell you didn’t have shit written down, also stop with the Kendrick shade
If he did have stuff written down, we all know he didn’t write it lol
Drake has the largest collection of bad “music” in history. I’ve never seen an artist with so many forgetful filler songs in my entire life.
This clown just said he was “taking at least a year off from making music “ 😂 2 weeks later he announces he’s working on a new album