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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1158 Ratings
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Sep 4, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 4, 2021Uninspired and repetitive. This is easily drakes worst album. The first listen was hard, the second was even more so, the third.... Well I was out like DJ Akademiks. Only about 4 songs worth listening too, the rest is a snooze fest of songs that sound like B sides from views. I should have judged this album by its cover.
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Sep 4, 2021So bad noi ch We have sent a confirmation email to the email address you provided for your account. Please click on the link in the email to confirm your registration.
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Sep 4, 2021Too fire. While people believe that this is the ‘same old drake’ , that’s what he was going for. This wasn’t supposed to be something u can blast and head bang in your car too. He’s bringing back the old drake that you listen to when u get your heart broken. Fire.
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Sep 4, 2021Enjoyed it, may not be his best but people hating too much. Give it a couple listens then we’ll talk because I remember when people were hating on Donda too
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Sep 4, 2021Needs to be in consideration for album of the year.some of his best work .
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Sep 4, 2021
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Sep 4, 2021Just drake being the same boring drake… I was hoping for something new. After listening to it twice I had to wonder how anybody could find this interesting. Drake must be thanking god for people with odd taste in music
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Sep 4, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 4, 2021
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Sep 4, 2021was every song copy pasted ? lmao that is what it feels like.But im not giving a 0 just for the trolls.Some tracks were good but at the time you came to those tracks you already fell as sleep.The best tracks is were drake was serious and not his playboy style.
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Sep 4, 2021Don't listen at 8am on your phone. Turn it up! Some songs could get cut for sure, but some songs can be listened to like 10 times back there are just so many barz. Another Drake album where he feels the pressure to appeal to everybody, and the arrogance to appeal to nobody in particular either.
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Sep 4, 20210 out of 10. Worst album I’ve ever heard. Drake, make better music or don’t drop music at all. This is pure garbage and I miss the person I was before I heard this. So much hype for such mediocre songs. Drake needs to be stopped. Anyways stream DONDA, a real masterpiece.
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Sep 4, 2021Nothing too special, very repetitive and some goofy lyrics. The features would make you think it’s a straight rap album, however it’s pretty rnb-ish. It’s not terrible, just nothing crazy. Also the long awaited giannis line was weak, saw people on Instagram comment sections make better lines about him.
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Sep 4, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 4, 2021Drake and Kanye should retire from music so should most men in the music industry. If you want to cleanse your ears after hearing this, listen to Plastic Hearts by Miley Cyrus!
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Sep 4, 2021Donda > CLB Every day
Casual Drake nothing else
I'm sure this album will be one of the most overrated album ever. -
Sep 4, 2021Drake once again comes through with an album that at its core is perfectly fine, if he hadn't already released it 2 times before. While most of the songs on this thing are decent and exactly what you would expect from a drake album, the fact that he hasn't innovated or tried doing anything new in years speaks to his artistic integrity.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 4, 2021When I heard the intro sample and the beat I expected a certified classic. The first 2 minutes of the album were perfect. After that it was the regular album cut drake for the whole 1.4 hours. Boring album with no chances taken. But Drakes bad is better than most so it’s a strong 5.
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Sep 4, 2021Literally another Scorpion, no progression in his sound whatsoever. The same formula for everything he puts every time out. After bringing such momentum with Scary Hours 2, and other features and singles, it's a very underwhelming release.
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Sep 4, 2021It's amazing how all of these reviews come out in just a day. Giving albums time to breathe doesn't exist anymore I guess lol. The album was shaky after the first listen but it gets better and better with more listens.
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Sep 4, 2021
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Sep 4, 2021VERY BORING!!! drake continues to realise underwhelming music. the only reason he breaks record id because his name is drake.
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Sep 4, 2021So bland. Drake hasn’t evolved in the past 6 years. In fact his albums have got gradually worse each time since Nothing Was The Same.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021There is maybe 1 or 2 songs at best, that i want to come back to and play multiple times.
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Sep 3, 2021Same old nonsense from a Mans who music hasn’t evolved in almost a decade
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Sep 3, 2021Album doesn’t have a track to keep you engaged. Although it’s a long album it feels been longer with drawn out boring melodies . Might be good to put children to sleep
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Sep 3, 2021He gave us the same album again with more artist that bought nothing to it. Really didn't expected much from Drake as of recent months to years he's been putting out the same songs over and over.
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Sep 3, 2021Repetitive beats with sub-par lyricism , a staple for drake music since 2015
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021Drake needs growth. He is talking about the same topics he rapped about a decade ago.
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Sep 3, 2021oh look, another drake album that sounds exactly the same as everything else he has released over the last 6 and a half years or so down to the production and flows so disappointing
Tyler The Creator made CMIYGL at 30, there’s no excuse for this dude to be so sonically stagnant. -
Sep 3, 2021Love all, pipe down, N2 deep, TSU tienen un aire fresco entre todo lo que ha echo drake hasta el momento, bueno esa es mi perspectiva, para mi gusto lo mejor del álbum
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Sep 3, 2021truly his best work since 2015. the negative reviews are just people who want change. this man has been running a decade with "no change" okay
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Sep 3, 2021After three listens, the only good song is Papi’s Home, and even that one is way too embarrassing to put in any of my playlists. I can’t believe I sat through the I’m Too Sexy song three times on my own volition, but even worse was the realization that I’m now cursed to coexist with its inevitable meme status for the next few weeks.
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Sep 3, 2021This is yet another generic drake album. Same recycled sonic trajectory we get in every drake album. Feature selection wasn’t great as almost all of the artists featured have done better tracks with him before. Content was the most frustrating part as there was zero evolution and corny cringe inducing lines over. Don’t even get me started on the album cover.
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Sep 3, 2021Overrated af, it's just more of the same from drake it's not trash but it's certified mid
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Sep 3, 2021Boring and not good, this is definitely one of drakes worst studio album with his flows over melodic beats being at best predictable and descent and at worst, blue face level of offbeat. About 4 out of the 21 songs are the only ones that I can get behind and is the reason this rating is a 2.
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Sep 3, 2021I guess he's foreshadowing his master plan of impregnating at least 12 nationalities. Hypergamy is a thing, and he can find 12 women who would share him. That's not impossible at all given his status. That's the kind of world we live in.
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Sep 3, 2021What a dissapoitment, more from the same old drake, he never tries to innovate, looks like the same drake from Scorpion. In a battle with Kanye, DONDA is better.
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Sep 3, 2021I usually like drake and while some of the songs on this album are catchy, they say a lot of nothing and his flow hasn’t changed. Drake has made the same album for the last 4 projects. Change it up
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Sep 3, 2021Nothing that kept me interested or looking forward to the next track. Despite it being shorter than Donda (and the comparison has to be drawn because it's everywhere at the moment) it feels like it were quite the opposite. On its own, it's a decent album full of decent songs that I could listen to as background noise while I'm working or studying, but nothing more
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Sep 3, 2021Dudes been doing the same **** since 2015, same beats, same lyrics, same flows, same repetitive drake. Pure snooze fest.
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Sep 3, 2021Nothing was the same to everything sounds the same. No growth in the last 3 years and even bringing old flows like from “Lord Knows” we in 2021 already Drizzy!
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Sep 3, 2021No es lo mejor de Drake, pero para los estandares de 2021 es el mejor disco del año hasta la fecha, se defiende y logra hacer lo que sabe.
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Sep 3, 2021Just another Drake's pop album, there's no good track. A few verses (from others rappers) are the only thing worth of your time.
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Sep 3, 2021What a snooze fest. Even his biggest hype fan (DJ Akademics) fell asleep listening to this collection of boring ideas. Worst album of the year.
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Sep 3, 2021I don’t really like the album, also disappointing that Nicki didn’t have a verse.
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Sep 3, 2021"Certified Lover Boy" is just the same drake album that listeners have been getting for years... I would rather listen to more life than this album.
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021Same Drake since 2016 full of corny ass bars and the same dull repetitive track... I just want Thank Me Later Drake back
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Sep 3, 2021More like certified garbage. Every song on the album is the same. I feel like Drake isn't even trying at this point.
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Sep 3, 2021Overall some hits. I feel like the cover art is a blow. But overall I liked it!
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Sep 3, 2021I guess drake had a contract obligation to release an album because this is absolute dogsheet.
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Sep 3, 2021Lazy and disappointing, wouldn’t expect this from such a long wait and anticipation, akademics reaction says it all.
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Sep 3, 2021I think of all the albums Drake has dropped nothing has topped Nothing was the same. He's been just gliding on tracks cause he knows it'll sell no matter what
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Sep 3, 2021Nothing new from drake on this album. Same lyrical topics and themes. Flows and melodies we have heard before. I do enjoy some of the production but is super lackluster and bloated. Considering we waited 9 months for it.
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Sep 3, 2021Certified sleeper boy, Travis Scott feature only thing earning it a 1, Drake the McGregor of the rap game no heart left in it
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Sep 3, 2021Big let down. 3 years and this what we get? Any and all of your singles over the past 3 years were better than any of these songs.
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Sep 3, 2021Not what I expected fr, it was just average drake I expected more from this album after all the hype and delays even the album cover sucks
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Sep 3, 2021Otra chatarra del rapero mas simplón del planeta, toda su música suena igual, no trasciende, no influye y no progresa en lo absoluto.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021Not the best album of his. not many good beats and slow flow on most of the songs
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Sep 3, 2021Donda blows this out of the water. So much better. CLB is dull, very few good tracks.
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Sep 3, 2021You really can't convince me that this is a good album. Its hard to think of a song i'd listen to again on this album. I wanted it to be good but man its just not.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021This is really awful and boring at the same time just like all his 3 previous albums.
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Sep 3, 2021this album is so boring and underwhelming.
i mean it’s drake what do you expect.
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Sep 3, 2021I am just so sick of Drake making the same music pieces that he has been making since 2016 with even more cornier lyrics. More he follows this formula of his the more cornier and shallow he gets. I don't think he even cares about the artistry that his craft is intertwined with anymore.
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Sep 3, 2021Trash album. Really a disappointment. Boring and uninspired. Certified Hot garbage
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Sep 3, 2021Made me fall asleep halfway through the project lazy and lacking substance it's clear drake dosent care about quality anymore because he knows it will sell
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Sep 3, 2021Drakes first few albums are much better, he sounds uninspired on this project. This album suffers most from being incredibly boring
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Sep 3, 2021Corny album by corny guy. Drake has failed to grow as an artist and do something new. It’s been a decade of the same song over and over again. I wish for him to evolve, but what’s to be expected when an adult man refers to himself as a boy.
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Sep 3, 2021Boring and predictable, a typical Drake album absolutely nothing to write home about.
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Sep 3, 2021Absolutely tragic this. Same beat recycled over and over with drake rinsing his previous albums dry. What a waste of features.
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Sep 3, 2021This album might as well be called Scorpion 2. Very bland and boring with some decent features saving the day. It’s nothing too bad to listen to just nothing special enough that rewards the hype towards the Album. Meh.
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Sep 3, 2021Very repetitive and boring album, carried by production at points. Some features come through but drake throughout the project to me is lackluster
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Sep 3, 2021After scorpion I was really hoping to see Drizzy do something new. And while it’s not terrible it’s just kinda boring. The rapping is some of drakes better but that’s about all that’s interesting here, surrounded by cheesy poppy chart targeted music
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021Yikes this might as well been the same track for the entire album. Drake has not dropped a good project since IYRTITL
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021Por supuesto que se pudo haber ahorrado un álbum si solo un par de canciones estarían geniales, todo lo demás es plano y pretencioso
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Sep 3, 2021Thank him now ‘cus if you’re reading this it’s too late for him to have taken care on the most mid album going. Makes you wonder what the 9 month postponement was for really? Drake does Drake... again.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021Bland boring old Drake back at it, this time with no for sure radio hits. Feels phoned in. Skip this one.
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021———————— the whole entire album feels the same . Flat all the way thru . The beats and music flow just seems so similar and boring . No sense of direction through this entire album and project in terms of creativity . Just feels like a pop song for corporates to take control. Just feels like the whole entire album is lazy in terms of creativity and execution.
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021When i see the score i thought it was because of te beef with kanye then i listen to de album and holly **** is bad, i really was expecting more, jay z is the best thing in this album.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021More of the same from Drake. Not much here that adds anything new to his catalogue. A few great songs mixed in with a ton of filler. Drake's lyrics and delivery sound downright lazy and uninspired on many of these songs. I have no idea how this album took three years to complete. This album is proof that Drake has remained artistically stagnant since (and including) Scorpion.
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Sep 3, 2021there are like 4 tracks that are good, the rest is just the same, boring, kinda soul-less. this album was made for "top tik-tok songs you should know" videos
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Sep 3, 2021Garbage, most boring Drake album yet and that’s saying something. At least Scorpion had some bangers ffs.
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Sep 3, 2021Drake just keeps coming out with the same boring never evolving albums to keep his fan base broad because all he cares about is money. So therefore he makes shallow music.
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Sep 3, 2021Mid asf album, 0/10 i cant listen to it without my ears bleeding
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Sep 3, 2021O melhor dele ate agora, inovador, viciante e complexo de fato é o Rei do Rap!
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Sep 3, 2021Drake albums haves been something I looked forward to every time they are announced. But this album is disappointing
Awards & Rankings
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Oct 19, 2021It’s beige, hollow music and that’s what ultimately frustrates your dedicated rap listener because it doesn’t make sense why it’s so damn popular. When you throw the poor writing on top of this, and some real hit-and-miss production into the mix, “Certified Lover Boy” may well be Drake’s worst album.
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Sep 13, 2021Drake comes across as an artist who’s bought into his mythos and persona a bit too ardently. ... The production on Certified Lover Boy is svelte yet airless, filled with lots of solemn piano lines and muted snares but absent of big flourishes or attempts at pop crossover. It’s an approach that’s likely aiming for tasteful restraint, but the effect is languid and rather directionless.
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Sep 13, 2021Things start promisingly with the undulating Champagne Poetry dextrously reflecting on loneliness (“career is going great, but now the rest of me is fading slowly”), while Papi’s Home recalls early Kanye, of all people, with its sped-up samples and laid-back flow. Later, however, that playfulness calcifies into headline-grabbing stunts. ... This is an album destined to be filleted for various #mood playlists, anchored only by its creator’s untouchable fame.