Habibti (album)

The album was surprise released alongside Drake's other two albums released on May 15, 2026, Iceman and Maid of Honour following the fourth and last episode of Drake's Iceman album livestreams.^[3] Drake would then announce the three albums with the caption "All 3 albums dropping at midnight from the biggest sound".^[4]

Habibti serves as the shortest album from Drake's three-album release with 11 tracks across a 36-minute runtime; this also makes it his shortest album yet.^[5]

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Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	58/100[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Arts Desk	[7][a]
Consequence	D[8]
The Guardian	[9][a]
Rolling Stone	[10]
The Sydney Morning Herald	[11]
Pitchfork	6.5/10[12]
Los Angeles Times	6.0/10[13]
NME	[14]
Variety	7.6/10[15]

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According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Habibti received "mixed or average reviews" based on a weighted average score of 58 out of 100 from 6 critic scores.^[6]

Thomas H. Green for The Arts Desk wrote that out of the three records released, Habibti is "the bedroom album. Yum". He continued writing that "the music is laid back and woozy. By this point, anyone who finds Autotune annoying will have been sectioned. But Drake knows lots of 'girls who wanna party'. So, then, let's have more drab odes to them. Or, mainly, to his prowess, his one-note desires".^[7] Consequence's Kiana Fitzgerald began her review, writing that the record is "inexplicably" titled. Fitzgerald continued that "the R&B-steeped Habibti is lost at sea, buoyed only by the predictable, but effective, 'WNBA'" and that like Maid of Honour, the record is "#forthegirls".^[8] In an unfavourable three-album review for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis stated Habibti "sound[s] like old ground being half-heartedly retrodden for the sake of it," and referred to "Rusty Intro" as "tuneless acoustic guitar backed rambling".^[9] Dalton Higgins of The Globe and Mail was also critical, calling the album "largely forgettable".^[16]

In a positive review, Jeff Ihaza for Rolling Stone wrote that "at a tight 11 songs, this album finds Drake in romantic territory, having shed the guarded iciness of Iceman and embracing the R&B loverboy that audiences first came to love him for".^[10] In a negative review, Robert Moran for The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the record is a "slog" and that "Drake['s] at his most charmless and self-pitying, sleepwalking through noxious quips he should have left in the WhatsApp chat with his manosphere bros" on the record.^[11] Pitchfork's Matthew Ritchie wrote that "the R&B act of Drake’s triple bill is alternatingly hypnotic and hollow. It peaks when it’s refreshingly loose, and drags when it reverts to stock writing and production".^[12]

All tracks are principally written by Aubrey Graham. Full credits are not available at this time; production credits have been adapted from HotNewHipHop.^[17][18]