Drake calls for release of Sam Bankman’s Fried on critically panned new album

After years in exile following a brutal rap battle with Kendrick Lamar, Drake returned with a message: Release Sam Bankman Fried.

The rapper released three albums simultaneously on Friday, featuring 43 new songs. One of those songs is “Dust” from the album Snowmanincludes a clarion call to pardon the disgraced FTX founder.

““FTX penthouse, yeah,” Drake sings. “Samuel Bankman, release all my comrades, yes“.

Later in the song, the artist refers to himself as “one of the big pioneers of Bitcoin cryptocurrencies.”

The albums have already been widely panned numerous Criticswith The Guardian They considered the new collection of songs a “boring and bloated disaster.”

Bankman-Fried is currently serving A 25 year sentence He is in federal prison in California for fraud he committed while operating FTX, a major cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in the Bahamas.

Immediately after President Donald Trump returned to power last year, the Bankman-Fried family — and the convict himself — embarked on an aggressive campaign a task To get a pardon from a crypto friend, pardon–Donate leader.

Bankman-Fried has routinely posted on social media from prison in recent months, praising the president’s decision and celebrating the crypto lobby’s recent accomplishments in Washington.

But the industry and its friends in Congress have come out swinging against a potential pardon, and are seeking one Distance themselves Of Bankman-Fried’s politically toxic reputation.

Earlier this year, President Trump noted in an interview with… New York Times He has no plans to pardon the cryptocurrency mogul.

But all of this seems to be a non-issue for Drake, who is no stranger to cryptocurrency controversy himself. The musician was named as an accused in numerous Lawsuits It centers around his years-long promotion of Stake, an offshore online casino powered by cryptocurrency.