Drake is chiming in on the conspiracy theories surrounding his ICEMAN streams. The Toronto rapper conversed with Complex via email this week, where he opened up about the status quo of his career and the rollout of his ninth studio album, Iceman. He has been debuting new singles and building a narrative around his project ahead of its release via livestreams on YouTube for days, prompting speculation and mystery. “I have been dying to act and have been dying for a challenge,” he told the outlet. “The game is extremely calm seas right now. Nobody is rocking any boat on the water and so once we discussed a live stream rollout, it just sounded like the perfect mix of risk and reward for me.” Everything we know about Drake's forthcoming project: Drake also opened up to Complex about his favorite parts of rolling out a new album: “I was asked by a creative partner what I love and hate about rolling out an album,” he said. “I expressed that I love the opportunity for a clean slate of thoughts and excitement and messaging when it comes to the music. What I hate is the redundancy of this formulaic approach that’s ingrained in our brains from early label days. Single, video, single, video, album cover post, etc.” Drake, who has been a regular on streaming platforms like Kick and Twitch in recent days, also admitted to wanting to use this new element to his advantage: “I think I am always capable of recognizing when things are shifting and not being weirdly affected by it, not being jealous, not being thirsty, just finding how I can shine light or co-exist or make it a part of our ecosystem,” he says. “With this, I just would study IRL streams vs. the stagnant ‘bedroom cam’ streams, and I feel like IRL just had so much unpredictable energy and movement. And we just started asking crazy questions like: How high can the quality get? How many cameras can we get to go live at once? 12? 13? 14? Can we get a drone shot to go live? We just started getting unhinged with the requests because we wanted to push it as far as possible.”The OVO boss kicked off the rollout of his newest album via livestream on July 4, where he offered fans a preview of his “What Did I Miss?” single that arrived the following day. Later that month, he debuted “Which One” featuring Central Cee. He dropped episode 3 in September. Elsewhere in his interview, Drake addressed the conspiracy theories head-on: “I watch murder docs a lot and as you get invested you start to try and solve things before you even know where it’s headed or what the answers are. It’s like this sleuth energy — ‘What did I learn? What did I miss?’ No pun intended,” he joked. “It’s crazy to see people make two-, three-hour videos on their thoughts and building conspiracies. It’s interactive content and that adds such a desirable element, more so than a music video with cars and tings. Not that those aren’t lovely sometimes.”As of this writing, the release date of Drake's next album remains unclear. However, he shared a string of images of himself and fellow rapper Sexyy Redd on Tuesday. Both of them were clad in tennis-related outfits, and fans have since begun speculating that she may be collaborating with him soon. Stay tuned to SoapCentral for more.