“The rapper’s latest album succeeds at vanquishing real and imagined foes, but at what cost?”
“Drake’s sixth album sounds good but feels labored. Melancholic and often incisive, it becomes an overlong and very familiar journey through the life, mind, and heart of Drake.”
“It’s been a big few weeks for bloated, endlessly teased rap opuses. Hot on the heels of empty monolith Donda from Drake’s current beefing partner, Kanye West, comes Certified Lover Boy, a 21-track, 90-minute trawl through the Canadian rap superstar’s conflicted psyche. As with his last album, 2018’s patchy Scorpion, it finds him caught between sadboi solipsism, meme-able sloganeering and demands f”
““Far as the Drake era, man, we in the golden ages,” Drake raps on ‘7am On Bridle Path’, one of 21 songs on his sixth studio album ‘Certified Lover Boy’. It’s a bold claim – particularly from an artist whose last album (2018’s ‘Scorpion’) presented a man in decline, relying on a bloated tracklist of mediocrity peppered by a few smash hits. Three years on and a whole year after it was originally sla”
“**Favorite tracks:** FAIR TRADE, YEBBA'S HEARTBREAK, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE **Least favorite track:** WAY 2 SEXY [Watch the review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ppxsRfZMA)”
