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AUBREY GRAHAM, more formally known as Drake, may have just sent the music world into downright hysteria one final time this year.

Announcing on Instagram his newest project Scary Hours 3 less than 24 hours ago, Team Drizzy fans can get keen for an imminent release with album set to drop at midnight on November 17, ESTā€”that’s 4pm on November 18 for those on Australia’s east coast. The previous chapters in the Scary Hours series were EPs, with its debut premiering in 2018 and Scary Hours 2 dropping in 2021.

A two-minute visual released on Champagnepapi’s Instagram includes a monologue from the man himself, providing followers with some insight into his current creative genius, or at leastā€”that’s what he thinks.

“I’ll say this to you, I feel no need to appease anyone, I feel so confident about the body of work I just dropped I know I can disappear for 6 months, a year, two years even though I’m not really into the super lengthy disappearances for the sake of mystery.”

He continued: ā€œI feel like Iā€™m in that mental state without doing anything. I did those songs in the last five days. I didnā€™t have one bar written down for those songs on the night that ā€˜For All the Dogsā€™ dropped. Itā€™s not like Iā€™m picking up from some unfinished shit. You know, this is just happening on its own. And who am I to fight it?ā€

Why are fans so surprised by this announcement?

The news has sent fans into a frenzy, more than understandable given just a few weeks ago Champagnepapi announced he was planning on taking “maybe a year” off music due to having the ā€œcraziest problemsā€ with his stomach. Yikes. But, perhaps the pain has subsidedā€”or at least, long enough for him to want to finish 2023 with an absolute album bangā€”with Scary Hours 3 just…hours away from release

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