EP and features

Album really grew on me recently. It has a lot of amazing Drake records on here. Only songs I can honestly do without are Bridle, Way 2 Sexy, Girls Want Girls, Yebba, Fountains, and Get Along Better. The Remorse could have been better but it’s aight.

Definitely not the worst Drake album but definitely not his best.

I think collab and features

Honestly 3 months later it’s very clear this project has been under appreciated

IT'S UP

Need an EP that sounds like the first half of F***ing Fans. My God

Drake the goat

Then I had a kid even though I never planned to

I’ve played “Mention Me” an absurd amount of times in the last two weeks.

Drizzy really piped Kylie 😭😭😭

Apparently that was fake

CLB got #2

The most valid critique of Drake’s sixth studio LP was that the tracks could have easily appeared on any of his previous drops. Yes, all 21 songs on the tracklist were steeped in his signature sound with atmospheric production and sharp-witted, melodic bars. But though he’s consistent, Certified Lover Boy cemented the fact that Drake is never boring.

Now over a decade into his career, his strength is in his self-awareness, as noted in the makeshift liner notes for his 2018 album Scorpion (“DRAKE MAKES MUSIC FOR GIRLS, DRAKE THINKS HE’S JAMAICAN, DRAKE IS AN ACTOR...YEAH YEAH WE KNOW”). Where tenured fans know what he’s capable of, he’s proven that he’s keenly attuned to exactly what they want from him. It’s an unspoken contract between artists and fans that some deliberately eschew in favour of experimentation (as one former Drake rival has been doing for the entirety of his career). Neither approach is better than the other, but after living through such uncertain times, it was comforting to just hear Aubz be Aubz. When he experiments, he cosplays as a yaad man and Animorph-style shapeshifts into an aspiring UK roadman, but it always sounds distinctly Drake.

The Certified Lover Boy is both a caricature and a celebration of who Drake has become. He funds strippers’ poorly fleshed-out business ventures (“TSU”); he pulls strings to keep the mall open for his love interest and her friends (“N 2 Deep”); he mourns fizzled flings (“Pipe Down”); he asks his barber to etch a heart into his hairline despite the fact that he’s a 35-year-old father of one. He’s lyrically at his best on the ultra-cinematic, Beatles-sampling overture “Champagne Poetry” (I will die on that hill!) and calls in favors from fellow YMCMB alums Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne on “Papi’s Home” and “You Only Live Twice,” respectively. On “Knife Talk,” the bar “Spoiler alert: that n*gga died” makes me laugh out loud and the “Fair Trade” line “Losing friends and finding peace” sounds like it’s directly ripped from a post that moms find on Facebook and recirculate on WhatsApp. These aren’t flaws, though. They make Certified Lover Boy all the more endearing, in its deeply sentient, highly-relatable glory. He is the people’s champ, after all. —Sumiko Wilson

What are the chances they drop something?

Anyone else a little pissed Uncut Gems wasn’t referenced on this album?

It’s Drake making a Drake album
People need to temper their expectations

That feel when you discover the song you've been skipping hard asf >>
IMY2 slaps hard

yeah this s*** is top 4-5 for me

Crazy to watch that show last night with them walking down to the stage together and then going back to all the tracks from the last 2-4 years

Two 🐐’s

The way Drake rap/sung the stripped down version of LNCL

It was real good