Central Cee, Yeat, and Julia Wolf: The ICEMAN Features Are a Market Map

Drake heard Julia Wolf's "In My Room" during a DJ set and sent her an Instagram DM. She is a 25-year-old alt-pop artist from Long Island whose biggest streaming moment came from Twilight fans on TikTok. He is the most commercially successful rapper of all time. Six months later, their song "Dog House" had a Yeat verse on it and was previewed inside a cinematic YouTube livestream filmed across two continents. That is the ICEMAN feature strategy in one paragraph: take connections nobody expects and treat them as the album's center of gravity. ## Central Cee: London to Toronto at 27 Central Cee — born Oakley Neil Caesar-Su in Shepherd's Bush, West London — is the most commercially dominant UK rapper since Stormzy. His debut album Can't Rush Greatness hit number one in the UK in 2025. His collaboration with Dave on "Sprinter" became a global hit that crossed Atlantic playlist barriers in ways UK drill had struggled to for years. His Drake connection predates ICEMAN. The two appeared together on the "On the Radar Freestyle" in 2023, a viral session that confirmed what the streaming data already showed: Central Cee was the UK voice that could sit next to North American heavyweights without adjusting his cadence. "Which One," their ICEMAN collaboration, debuted during ICEMAN Episode 2 in July 2025. The track pairs Central Cee's clipped London delivery against Drake's Toronto R&B instincts. Central Cee has said Drake helped him "connect dots" in the industry, facilitating introductions to artists like Sexyy Red. The mentorship runs deeper than a feature credit. For Drake, Central Cee solves a specific problem: he needs the album to play in Europe the week it drops, not three months later. Central Cee's fanbase in the UK, France, and Germany gives ICEMAN a transatlantic footprint on day one. ## Yeat: The Rage Generation's Biggest Bet Yeat debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with Lyfestyle in 2024: 85,000 units in a genre — rage — that majors have been trying to co-opt since 2022. His follow-up 2093 did 73,000. His March 2026 double album ADL featured collaborators from Kid Cudi to Elton John. Drake brought Yeat into the ecosystem on For All The Dogs with "IDGAF," which reached the top ten on the Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Global 200. That was the proof of concept. "Dog House" on ICEMAN is the escalation. The production credit on "Dog House" belongs to BNYX, one of the most prolific producers in the rage subgenre. The song was released September 9, 2025, following its preview in ICEMAN Episode 3. Yeat's verse anchors the track's chaos while Julia Wolf's hook gives it a melodic surface that keeps it playlistable. The math is straightforward. Yeat's audience skews younger than Drake's core by a full decade. The overlap zone is smaller than people assume. Putting them on the same track is not about combining two fanbases. It is about creating a third audience that belongs to neither. ## Julia Wolf: The DM That Changed a Career Julia Wolf started self-producing music in 2019 from her parents' house on Long Island. Her EP Girls in Purgatory arrived in 2021. Her debut album Good Thing We Stayed came in 2023. Her second album PRESSURE dropped in 2025. The entire arc happened independently, built on TikTok virality and a confessional pop style that blends indie, shoegaze, and R&B textures. The Drake connection started with a single DM after he heard "In My Room" during a set. He asked her to send demos. She wrote the chorus that became the skeleton of "Dog House" specifically as a Drake collaboration. He resonated with it immediately. For Wolf, the impact is not subtle. "Dog House" moved her from alt-pop niche to mainstream consciousness overnight. She has credited the experience with teaching her to trust herself as an artist. For Drake, Wolf represents something he has been chasing since Honestly, Nevermind: a female vocal presence that does not default to R&B convention. Wolf's voice sits in the space between Billie Eilish's whisper-tone and Lana Del Rey's cinematic weight. It gives Drake a sonic palette he cannot reach with his usual collaborators. ## National Treasure: The Pressa Leak The wildcard in the ICEMAN feature conversation is "National Treasure," a track featuring Toronto rapper Pressa that leaked in September 2025 when a group of streamers called BagWork played it during a livestream promoting a meme coin. Drake called into Adin Ross's stream to express frustration. DJ Akademiks later suggested the song was originally intended for Pressa's project, not ICEMAN, and was never officially cleared. The track includes lyrics referencing the San Antonio Spurs and Kawhi Leonard that fans and media interpreted as shots at DeMar DeRozan. Whether "National Treasure" makes the final ICEMAN tracklist remains unconfirmed. What is confirmed is that the leak demonstrated the demand level: an unauthorized snippet from an uncleared track generated millions of views in hours. ## Somebody Loves Me Pt. 2: The Cash Cobain Remix ICEMAN Episode 3 also debuted a remix of "Somebody Loves Me" featuring Cash Cobain, released as "Somebody Loves Me Pt. 2." Cobain has become the defining production voice of the New York "sample drill" subgenre. The remix signals Drake's continued interest in absorbing regional sounds into his own orbit, a strategy that has defined every album since Views. ## What the Feature List Tells You Drake's ICEMAN features are not a guest list. They are a market map. Central Cee handles Europe. Yeat handles the under-25 streaming core. Julia Wolf handles the indie-to-mainstream crossover. Cash Cobain handles New York. Pressa handles Toronto. No two features occupy the same audience. No two features occupy the same sound. Every collaboration on ICEMAN is engineered to give the album a different entry point for a different listener. The album drops May 15. The feature list says it will land in every market simultaneously. ## More on Drake and ICEMAN - [Drake Released the ICEMAN Date From Inside a 25-Foot Ice Sculpture. 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