ryuH

4y

Still LOVE this album and think it’s flawless on Drake’s part but I do have a few gripes with the engineering:

I want to hear them use a different Mic next time they do this sound

Sounds like they using a tube mic like they’ve been using for his rapping over the past couple years

Probably a Sony C800G

The added harmonics help his raps cut through the mix and makes his rap vocal sound larger than life but those same harmonics aren’t really flattering to his singing voice

Makes the top end of his vocal sound harsh and unpleasant at times, like a hissing tone

I would use something a bit more transparent without a tube

Also I’m pretty sure these aren’t 40s mixes, maybe Noel’s?

I miss 40 on the boards man, his atmospheric approach would sound great on a record like this

These vocals are a bit dry for this style of music

People blaming Drake for “bad vocals” but honestly I think it’s a technical issue on the tracking and mixing end

Campari

4y

Everyone was on his case about Certified sounding like the same old Drake album yet the one song out of 13 dance tracks is the rap record he’s made countless times. What do people want from him?

ryuH

4y

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Phlegm

4y

thanks

texasbrisket

4y

off the ig clips posted in here it seems that 40 was involved with mixing this right? that's at least what it looked like lol
you seem to be experienced with this so im just shooting in the dark here, but wouldn't a de-esser be sufficient to take out all that hissing you're hearing?

ryuH

4y

Still LOVE this album and think it’s flawless on Drake’s part but I do have a few gripes with the engineering:

I want to hear them use a different Mic next time they do this sound

Sounds like they using a tube mic like they’ve been using for his rapping over the past couple years

Probably a Sony C800G

The added harmonics help his raps cut through the mix and makes his rap vocal sound larger than life but those same harmonics aren’t really flattering to his singing voice

Makes the top end of his vocal sound harsh and unpleasant at times, like a hissing tone

I would use something a bit more transparent without a tube

Also I’m pretty sure these aren’t 40s mixes, maybe Noel’s?

I miss 40 on the boards man, his atmospheric approach would sound great on a record like this

These vocals are a bit dry for this style of music

People blaming Drake for “bad vocals” but honestly I think it’s a technical issue on the tracking and mixing end

thegreatdivine

4y

Massive been hitting a lot harder than usual these past few days

MARC

4y

Been listening to Views and his vocal sound way better on there. Cleaner and clearer and the autotune is way less noticable.

I do think it's an artistic choice though and intentional.

MARC

4y

Been listening to Views and his vocal sound way better on there. Cleaner and clearer and the autotune is way less noticable.

I do think it's an artistic choice though and intentional.

Campari

4y

Everyone was on his case about Certified sounding like the same old Drake album yet the one song out of 13 dance tracks is the rap record he’s made countless times. What do people want from him?

deleteduser2863

4y

CLB may not have a consistent sound but it definitely has a strong overall theme

Drake said it himself:

"a combination of toxic masculinity and acceptance of truth which is inevitably heartbreaking"

almost every song tells a story about Drake's toxic behavior in the past:

in Race My Mind Drake is mad at his girl for not having s***with him when she's coming home drunk and high from parties and him feeling like she's not giving him enough attention

in Pipe Down Drake feels entitled to s***with his girl for all he's felt he's done for her

in N 2 Deep Drake gets caught up in a fling with a girl from Houston and presumably isn't being very faithful to some other girls he's been seeing (i wasnt in love with none of them anyway)

in Way 2 Sexy Drake is very full of himself and riding high on a toxically large ego

in Girls Want Girls Drake lusts over a girl who reveals to him that she's a lesbian. But Drake becomes pushy and responds with "girl me too" as he continues pursuing her

The "I might come, i might go, i dont know" lyrics in the end is Drake realizing that he's been toxic and pushy and should probably cut ties with her

in In The Bible Drake is upset that girls keep judging him for all his "bodies" and then immediately judges a girl for all her bodies and claiming that she doesn't know how to love people properly and that she's a leech off of his lifestyle (already very bitter and toxic)

in this song he realizes that he's been tainting her with his toxicity and feels guilty and ashamed (I'm not what you think, don't be proud of me)

this again coincides with the overall theme of a heartbreaking realization of one's own toxicity, which we also saw in Girls Want Girls

in Get Along Better Drake emotionally manipulative and admits that what he's doing is wrong by getting along better with his girl's own friends than herself

in F***ing Fans the toxicity is spelled out. This is Drake's most heartbreaking song imo. He admits to just how much he's hurt Rihanna with how unfaithful he's been. He admits that he's turned her bitter and jaded and that this damage will last

The whole album is Drake being toxic. He's self-aware of all of it and he expresses remorse for this

Drake made this album with this theme of toxicity in mind, and it's prevelant in almost every song on the album

The "Certified Lover Boy" title is intentionally ironic, and it's certainly a title that Drake looks at with more bitterness than pride

It's very introspective for Drake, even if it paints him in a bad light, just like feelings of being jaded and bitter that he expressed on Scorpion

The "pregnant women" (emojis) present on the album cover again show Drake's shame for the quantity and (poor) quality of all the relationships he's had in the past. He hasn't really gotten that many women pregnant and abandoned them, but with how toxic he's been he still feels just as guilty

This album lacks the cohesive sound, tone, and mood that every other Drake album excels in, and it's really turned a lot of people away from it, and it certainly has made it hard to rank super highly for most people (including myself)

But i definitely do still appreciate the overall theme of the album a lot

Drake was being very introspective, but in a very different way than he usually does. Each song didn't spell out his feelings all that clearly. They each told a unique story that all painted Drake in a very poor light. In some songs he came to this realization, and in others he didn't. But in the end he did express remorse for it all

This album has some gems, and I really love the story telling throughout and think that it's far from the "garbage" that many people think it is, and imo it's still much better than SFG and TML, and is closer to where More Life ranks for me

Campari

4y

Everyone was on his case about Certified sounding like the same old Drake album yet the one song out of 13 dance tracks is the rap record he’s made countless times. What do people want from him?