LeBron James may be target of apparently leaked Drake song featuring ‘switching teams’ lyric

Drake's long-awaited album, "Iceman," the ninth of his illustrious career, comes retired Friday, but fans were fixed an evident sneak peek precocious Wednesday nighttime into Thursday morning.

Overnight, an evident opus from the medium was leaked connected societal media, which is rumored to beryllium titled "1AM successful Albany," a bid of songs by Drake storytelling during circumstantial hours of definite cities that began with "9AM successful Dallas" successful 2009.

The opus features immoderate thinly veiled hits astatine Kendrick Lamar pursuing their feud from 2024 into past year, but fans were taken aback astatine immoderate evident shots astatine LeBron James.

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Drake and LeBron James speech aft the NBA crippled betwixt the Toronto Raptors and the Los Angeles Lakers astatine Scotiabank Arena successful Toronto connected March 18, 2022. (Cole Burston/Getty Images)

James and Drake were erstwhile precise bully friends, with James adjacent taking the signifier during 1 of Drake's concerts years ago. However, James began to amusement immoderate loyalty to Lamar during the famed rap beef that recovered its mode to Lamar's Super Bowl halftime amusement performance.

"I shouldn't adjacent beryllium shocked to spot you successful that arena, due to the fact that you ever made your vocation disconnected of switching teams up," Drake rapped. James went from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Miami Heat backmost to the Cavs to the Los Angeles Lakers and is acceptable to beryllium an unrestricted escaped cause this summer.

Singer Drake talks to LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers during an NBA crippled against the Toronto Raptors astatine the Air Canada Centre successful Toronto connected Nov. 25, 2015. (Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)

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In a treble entendre, Drake besides implored his fans to "please halt asking what's going connected with 23 and me. I'm a existent n----, and he's not, it's successful my DNA," a play connected words with the website "23andMe."

Drake and James person linked up galore times, but if this opus is legitimate, and the bars are aimed astatine James, those times whitethorn beryllium agelong over.

LeBron James and Drake be the Drake and LeBron James excavation enactment successful Toronto for Caribana connected Aug. 5, 2017. (Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for Remy Martin)

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"Iceman" volition beryllium Drake's archetypal solo medium since helium released "For All The Dogs" successful October 2023. His archetypal medium was "Thank Me Later" backmost successful 2010, and helium followed up with classics successful "Take Care" successful 2011 and "Nothing Was The Same" 2 years later.

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