Why Certified Lover Boy Sucks 

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It’s like drake hasn’t recovered from getting rejected publicly by Rihanna

Drake has spent the past 4 albums telling us he wants to find a good stripper to settle down with and then complains that they only want him for fame and money. Dude needs to stop crying and move on.

This album sounds like Drake actually wrote it himself.

*laughs in 2024 Kendrick*

Shoulda known this man was done when he dropped toosie slide 🤦🏻‍♂️

Drake is 34 years old. And this is his worst work. At the same Age, Kanye made My beautiful Dark Twisted fantasy. His best work. Drake is still talking too and about teenager gurls and haters at 34 While Kanye had line like “I just needed time alone, with my own thoughts Got treasures in my mind but couldn't open up my own vault My childlike creativity, purity and honesty Is honestly being crowded by these grown thoughts” And drake is saying shit like “You a lesbian, girl me too” 🤦🏾‍♂️

Drake is emotionally less mature than me, a 26 year old who lost his virginity last week.

Him going to such great lengths to describe how his life isn’t “some sad story” and that he’s not the sad guy, makes me think that’s exactly the case.

Akademiks wasn't the only one who fell asleep while listening to CLB, i did too, and when I woke up, the album was still playing, on god! it had only reached halfway through its total length.

Drake's peak was 2009-2015, but since then, he just refuses to mature artistically. Makes me wish that he looks at the feedback and make an album that's a return to form and something worthwhile.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is what happens to most artists that have long since hit their magnum opus and settled far too into a good life. That inspiration and drive to make something special and meaningful is gone whether they care or not.

I actually prefer Dark Lane Demo Tapes over CLB, the sound of that project was different from what he usually drops.

At first, i was hoping that he would make a dark ambient dark lust trap music but NOOOOOO he didn't. And then I saw the album cover, and then I've lost all faith for Drake.

The most straightforward review of a Drake album I’ve heard. In my honest opinion he stopped trying after More Life (I did enjoy that project). Donda despite its flaws has songs that make me want to go back and listen again and again. Even The Weeknd keeps it refreshing by involving some form of a concept with his work.

Drake speaking out against toxic masculinity is pretty hilarious considering the fact that he benefits from it lmfaooo

drake: i’m not soft also drake: you a lesbian, girl me too bruh 🤦‍♂️ mans is too corny 😭😂

Drake made the same album 4 times since 2018 Idk why people (including myself) thought he was gonna do something different

"Aside from boredom I don't feel anything" That's gotta hurt 💀💀

Drake is like the clout mafia. He's "friends" with everyone, there's an unspoken agreement not to talk bad about him and if you do people will dislike your video and stuff. He's like a cult leader

Even as someone that doesnt hate the album , this is very accurate. Drake lacks any creativity in his songwriting and song structure

Donda being part of this rollout makes the glaring holes even more obvious On one side you have an artist doing whatever he wants to make what he deems authentic and on the other hand you have a marketing tool masked as an album

"You a lesbian, girl me too" You know King Push shook his head and laughed when he heard that line.

I really don't get some of these rappers. It's like their entire image revolves around being a hypocrite. You're not allowed to sleep around with hundreds of randos and then be mad when those same randos don't gaf about you and only want you for your money. If you don't want a real relationship, that's fine, but you don't get to be mad that the people you attract with your lifestyle choices don't want that either. YOU chose this.

Drake is the type of guy to say “jeez Louise”.

Push said it best. “Even though you’re multi, I see that your soul don’t look alive”

Been a Drake Stan since 09' I was so friggin disappointed in the trash album to the point I'm taking a break from his music.

It’s really sad when an artist peaks with their first couple of albums… Finds their lane and then doesn’t stray from the $$$ formula ever again.

honestly, call me a contrarian or a pedantic heavy metal elitist, but as a metalhead CLB is the antithesis of what i love about music. its missing the highly technical and impressive instrumentals, deep and varied lyrical content, and the uniqueness of each individual track that made me fall in love with music, and instead is overly commercialized, autotuned to hell and back, and homogenous very similarly to St. Anger. the worst part is that is came in the same week as Donda and Senjutsu, two albums that feature already-famous artists exploring new territory with their music.

The guy who makes music about being sad and lonely is bothered about being seen like that. Very funny dude.

You are so right. Drake’s lack of self awareness is unreal. His whole view is to unreal because no one could be this oblivious. It is such a non starter for me. It’s either fake ( which would be weird because who would want to pretend to be this creep) or it’s just ignorance, in which case he does need some friends, friends who are willing to show him what’s up. I’m so glad you posted this video because this has been bothering me since the album dropped and I gave it a listen. 32 year old “lover boy”. How creepy is that?

Maybe it’s us. Maybe we are putting these expectations on Drake to be this thought-provoking, legendary artist, and he’s just not, or at least not anymore. I see so many trying to peg him in with the likes of Kendrick or J.Cole, and I think thats the problem. They don’t cater to the mainstream as heavily as he does. They don’t churn out pop rap songs every two months to stay relevant. It’s pure quality over quantity. So I think his last few albums (at least after NWTS for me), have been very hollow and just mostly forgettable because he’s catering to this pop, mainstream image. Everything from him now is very shallow, repetitive, cookie-cutter, rehearsed music/image. Not letting his art reflect anything personal or profound, just whatever gets his name on the charts. Not to mention, resorting to bs (fake) “rap beefs” to stay relevant as well 🙄. It’s feels like a facade, like this fake wanna be hard/ghetto front, when thats really not him. I think thats why his music doesn’t connect anymore. Doesn’t make him bad, but IMO just not on the same level or quality as the other artists people are trying to compare him too. Like trying to compare Cardi B or Meg to Lauryn Hill. 🤨🤨 Like, no lol, let’s keep them separate. I don’t hate Meg or Cardi, but me criticizing them for not being “deep” is well silly bc they are not that type of artist. Just because it’s popular does not equal quality.

I want to thank you so much for this. This is the realist review of this project AND of this “artist”. To me His mixtapes are ALWAYS better than his actual albums albums. WATTBA, More Life, Dark Demo Lanes… like all those projects there is actually effort!

Everyone favorite excuse for why the album is good is “it’s a vibe” I’m learning that “it’s a vibe” means something is fuckin trash, and fans are making themselves like it.

What on earth made you think that Drake was gonna drop a classic. All of his actions for the past five years have pointed to no

"All Drake is talking about are these anonymous haters, who for some vague reason want him to lose his spot" LMAO

this is the first full album I've ever listened to by Drake and i personally really liked it but seeing people hate on it makes me feel like I've just missed drakes whole good era lmao.

Donda over clb, anyday of the week anyday of the month and anyday of my life

Drake's fan be like: nAh yOU biAseD

The difference between able and drake is able's music is good.

loved the video thank you for a great essay!!

Finally someone said it. I found CLB bland, easily forgettable with no effort on the music. . I think he fell by miles this time. The project is poorly delivered for me. Maybe I was expecting a little more effort than scorpion, but nothing except disappointing results for the past of his 4 albums. It’s even low for drake’s project like seriously. It's the same monotonic style as Eminem has been putting for the last 10 years tbh. At least Em tries his best while rapping.

“now let’s look at way too lazy” 😆😂

Way 2 Sexy was a good fun type of song no need to take it so seriously it definitely bumped in the summer but in general yes all the songs are trash except one. I remember waking up for work 7 am and no lie I saw the album dropped and skipped through it quick in about 6 minutes, saved one song, laughed and forgot about the album, aside from driving in traffic in downtown Toronto and seeing his billboard everyday. Btw No Friends in this Industry is hard.

good video, the video essay format was great

Years of hype for this thing. That promo clip from like January where he was posing as his past album covers and shit was better than this whole album. There's a few good tracks, but they feel like disposable throwaways that make more sense on a More Life/DLDT release. Almost the only lyrical substance on this album that's captivating in any way, including the ENTIRETY of his anticipated new time/location track, is about ANOTHER FUCKING RAPPER. Sure, Ye put a diss track on his album, and he had a couple shots here and there, but nobody comes away from Donda thinking about Drake. I came away from CLB thinking about Kanye both because of how much more I got out of his album, and because of how much of Drake's album was dedicated to talking about him. Terrible decision, hard to tell if it was done out of faltering management advice or just a desperate attempt to capitalize on a moment. Also the dude is still writing bars about the last beef HE LOST with another guy in Ye's camp, bars about how he's over it and it doesn't even phase him, yet again he keeps writing about it. He just feels out of inspiration, like there really is nothing new in his life or his creative vault.

Drake died in 2016. Everything since has been absolutely robbed of any creative process.

This video is straight facts! And it’s crazy that in that interview where he’s saying “everyone thinks he’s lonely and sad” it looked like it was done around 2013… and at that time I was in hs and I did not know a single person that thought that of drake…. Me and my squad would actually talk about how lavish they were partying lmaooo! Now seeing him say that makes him actually seem lame all those years ago… I just was never interested in his personal life just his music and assumed he was living happy based of its success 😑

Am here to confirm that the "Sucking album" is the first album this year to hit a billion stream, just saying

Vid so good I had to watch it twice. First listen I was confused. Second listen I was mad. 3rd listen never happened. It’s sad that society labels us “non pussy getting haters” for having taste. And I was RAISED on Drake.

Views was his peak . Love that album.

This is so intricately well made. I feel like you not only covered a lot of my own thoguhts as someone who grew up listening to drake but introduced me to things I didn’t even notice. Normally I’m heavily analytical but I am not joking when I say if I like an album I’ll finish it ASAP but the moment CLB came out and I saw the photo for it, I guessed what it was about. I put off listening to it for like 4 days, while seeing the usual Instagram stories of drake music on it and them thinking they’re way 2 sexy, seeing people riding the social media trend. It’s disgusting. All of my schoolmates who like this album bluntly don’t care about the meaning of it. They just say it sounds nice. These are the same people who love someone like Playboi CARTI. I listened to it when going to Niagara Falls on a 8 hour drive, since I had the album downloaded and was bored out my mind. Despite having insomnia and not being able to sleep much during the day ESPECIALLY IN CARS this album helped me to do so. That’s how humiliating it is. I tried finishing it when I woke up. I tried on the drive back home. To all the same, it was so incredibly terrible. If CLB gets nominated AOTY I am genuinely disappointed beyond my mind.

But to be fair "Fair Trade" was a pretty good song.

Drake is still proving himself publicly to Rihanna

The issue with making music that’s so centered around the being number 1 and being on the charts is that the eventual come down would hurt your art so much and your music wouldn’t stand the test of time. Nobody stays no.1 forever and I wonder what the excuse would be when his music is tearing up the charts.

Subbed for this and your Weeknd video!

wow this video was bussin! Subbed honestly I expected you to have 128k subs not 12.8K keep going dude! this channel is gonna explode

I truly liked it just because all The Weeknd s refferences, and the final line"I only want good music".

"way 2 lazy"

Outstanding 5 star general review 👏 👏. You seriously know how to analyze with facts. ✊

Bruh, drake used to seem like this chill confident guy in his songs. Now he's just trying to send some weird message that he doesn't care, yet it shows through.

He knows he is catering to the mainstream, and based on the numbers it has worked. At the end of the day, he is trying to make money. I am sure he knew "way 2 sexy" would have gotten on top because it just shows what the market is like these days. If the audience shows that they dislike this style, he will change, but until then he will continue to do this because it is profitable. I enjoyed the album because I wasn't trying to analyse it so hard, just had some nice beats and catchy lyrics and that is probably what he was aiming for anyways.

Great breakdown man, had to sub even as a person who likes Drake’s music

lmaooooo headlines was my fav song back in the day love that you used that one- what happened to that drake

Yebba's heartbreak is the best song there.

You're comparing hungry drake to comfortable drake!😂

you got me to hit the subscribe button for this video, keep it up!

Man when you played Headlines that was some nostalgia. That was the song that *really* got me on to Drake. Became a huge fan for the next few years. I do like Ratchet Happy Birthday, tho. Although it was clearly written by PND. But yeah I agree CLB was super underwhelming but there are 5 or 6 tracks I go back to. TSU is my number 1, followed by 7am and Girls Want Girls. But there seems to be a lot of filler and, like you say, we don't learn anything new. Do not get me started on the album cover.

Grab your popcorn boys, comment section is gonna be fun. In all seriousness, great video.

Lil Wayne's verse on You Only Live Twice is the biggest highlight for me in this album

Excellent review and very well said. The only difference between me and most in this comment thread is that I was never on the Drake tip. I saw through dude from jump.

no friends in the industry, champagne poetry, fair trade, 7 am on bridle path, knife talk, pipe down > donda

Way 2 Sexy is an insult to our intelligence

This dude is so fucking great, deserves more attention. And Btw at minute 10:21 there's a part of "A boy is a gun" music video. Next vid about Igor? If so I'm really excited

It's like drake hasn't recovered from The Story of Adidon

Great job, and I am from Toronto ! I just wish you would have commented on that shot of him on the treadmill with a mask on !! Thanks fr showing it anyhow or Id probably never would have known !

I have a hard time believing drake listens to his own music. Or at least I don’t believe he listens to his albums in completion

DONDA review when?

Drake was so so good when he first came out i used to listen all his song even though i listen to pop music more than Rap/hip hop but i know when a rapper has talent. Personally i think his downfall started in 2016 when he dropped views. I mean obvious views is masterpiece and much better than his latest albums but it was the first time that i felt that he was not doing something, then with scorpion it just got worse. Then in 2020 whe he dropped toosie slide, i realized that this was not the drake from early 10's, it is like when someone does not grow up and just does not try to give quality and good music. But he does not care that because he knows that he's going to get success anyways because he is, well you know DRAKE and people are going stream his music even if put out garbage

I know this nigga did not just defend that Lil Nas X music video.

Drake dropping hits and all of a sudden all you niggas care about is (content) and super in depth concepts

Yes!!! Starboy does not get enough love! Abel is such a genius!!!

It's the Jerry Seinfeld effect: fame and fortune separating you from the human experiences to the point that you can no longer make meaningful art

Great video tho. Just subbed

This video is great my god 😭

Every critique is a spot on.

I'm a HUGE Drake fan but I'm genuinely glad that the album is getting the flak it rightly deserves. It was the most uninspiring, lyrically lazy and thematically bland album he has ever put out. I was expecting something to rival "Take Care" with roaming brooding. Instead we got this tepid mess. Drake seriously needs to find a way to reinvent himself but I'm just hoping it isn't too late.

dude its like you went into my head and said all my thoughts. this is so true. he only talks about money or women. his beats are amazing which i think is a cover for his bland one liners. why this guy gets put over guys like wayne eminem j cole and kendrick i will never know.

This could be said about a lot of other artists I listen to, honestly made me think for a while, eye opener, Thanks for the quality content.

i thought certified lover boy was gon be this dark melodic lustful feeling album but it ended up being diss songs and tiktok clips

funny how he's got "no friends in the industry" but most of the songs in the album have features on them, and are ironically pretty much what saves CLB from being absolute hot garbage

The fact that I like Way 2 Sexy, but I like it as a joke song. It makes me laugh. I don’t take it seriously at all. Of course, I love the music video 😂

Another classic video

This was the review we needed. Certified hood classic.

100% agree with this video, keep up the good work

CLB: Lullaby Donda: Damn bro am I literally ascending to heaven

This is the best review. The Drake Standum needs to stop over hyping this album fr… it was good for a playlist not an album

That testicle line killed me🤣🤣🤣

clb has proved to me that if you're popular enough anything you put out will be successful. Also proved to me that he believes in "if it's not broke don't fix it"

Bro THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS 😭😭😭😭😭😭