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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1158 Ratings
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Sep 3, 2021Fell asleep while listening to it, then bumped Donda and got the energy and motivation to run a Marathon and get my life together. 0/10. Also, cringy ass themes for a 33 year old
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Sep 4, 2021Boring. Started to listen it, but Ive already heard these songs on prev albums. So much potential…
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Sep 3, 2021Just more generic music from a rapper who lacks any creative edge/inspiration these days. Very average music, boring and feel like I’ve heard it all before already.
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Sep 3, 2021This pains me to say as an honest Drake fan, but this is probably the worst album that I have heard this year. There’s nothing that stands out or that pushes the boundaries of Drake’s music. Every song is either a generic Drake love song or about how he’s “at the top of the music game and no one can touch him!" Look, sorry Mr. Graham, but this album is an absolute DISASTER!
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Sep 3, 2021Giving it a zero because it deserves. Blend, generic, washed out piece of bad music.
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021Horrible repetitive album from Drake.
Very shallow music and nothing different showing he clearly hasn't grown sonically from his previous work and will accept mediocre as he knows the charts and shallow music fans will eat it up. -
Sep 4, 2021Sexto álbum da carreira e não inovou em absolutamente nada. As músicas do álbum não fluem uma com as outras, parece mais uma playlist. Merece 0 porque não tem como dar nota negativa
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Sep 3, 2021This album is just as bad. Even the features could revive it
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Sep 3, 2021I don’t think I’ve heard something so horrible befors. Mediocre production and Drake being the worst he has ever been. I feel bad for the featured artists for taking part in this disaster of an album.
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Sep 3, 2021Boring asf
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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, 2021Donda blows this out of the water. So much better. CLB is dull, very few good tracks.
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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, 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, 2021Album drags Made me fall sleep Such a disappointment
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Sep 3, 2021Akademiks fell asleep listening to this album. That pretty much says its all.
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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, 2021So many filler tracks. Unmatched with previous albums. Does not deserve to be released and feels like a rushed mixtape despite being delayed by 9 months.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021Biggest disappointment of 2021. Only enjoyable part was Cudi’s feature. Drake should stick to being a pedophile and sending people back to rehab
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Sep 3, 2021One of the worst albums of 2021 easily.. This is literally no match for Donda, there is nothing special AT ALL on this album, just the usual drake type song where he talks about how rich he is and how cool he is, except its 10 times cornier with all the Lover Boy things he has going on. This was one of the most boring albums I've ever heard. My ears are bleeding.
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Sep 3, 2021certified minor lover.
another crappy record from alleged artist that doesnt write his own lyrics. perhaps texting underage girls **** him up, who knows. -
Sep 3, 2021I literally almost fell asleep listening to this. I respect the effort, but we need something to remind us that Drake is one of the best, but it definitely falls flat. Only a couple decent tracks, or I would have given it a 0.
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Sep 3, 2021this **** so bland. Certified boring boy. Scorpion 2.0. Laziest project of 2021
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021I'm sorry, but this one is disappointing and the album cover is complete trash, I could make the same album cover in like 1 minute
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Dec 28, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021My ears, oh god my ears. This was a genuinely painful experience. I don’t know why I expected it to be decent.
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Sep 3, 2021Since Views , Drake decline a little by little. this album is good but i think, he could delete 4-5 songs on the album. I appreciate the vibe of most of the songs. i think 7/10 is good for this album
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Sep 3, 2021Sounds like recycled materials : beats, flows and topics identical to his last few projects.
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Sep 3, 2021Mesma música de sempre. Não inovou em nada nesse álbum.
Como fã de Drake me decepcionei nessa. Não consegui ouvir mais de 3 músicas porque são todas iguais -
Sep 3, 2021Really disappointing album. Drakes has played it safe here. No interesting storytelling or one liners really, same old production. Drakes needs to pick more interesting beats.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021Another L from drake this got no chance against donda, more underwater sounding filters and boring production that we’ve come to expect from drake, nothing different or new or really standout do better drake
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Sep 3, 2021The level of creativity is so low
Possibly his worst album Even the big amount of features didn't carry it
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Sep 3, 2021O início é muito bom, mas depois da quinta faixa soa repetitivo, primacialmente por que o foco do album é nas rimas e o drake tem uma voz meio cansada pra musicas rimando
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Sep 3, 2021Its trash, songs are boring and features were not that good but it is what it is Donda is better
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Sep 3, 2021That was hard to get through. The most boring Drake has ever sounded in my recent memory. Uninspired and bored he goes. I honestly had more fun with that Donda album. It had enough weirdness to keep me awake. I guess Drake and Kanye decided they are not going to give Kwndeick any problems this year
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021Terrible, terrible, terrible! Don’t listen to this rubbish, drake is a culture vulture always has been!
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Sep 3, 2021Motonous trash. Never have I ever before fell asleep listening to a newly released album, highly anticipated at that?
F out of here! They played y'all, this artist is riding on the wave of the hate the other artist receives -
Sep 3, 2021His most stale, boring, uninspired piece of work yet. Thats really saying something too being that it’s Drake. Drakes comfortability being at the position he’s at in the industry really bleeds on this thing.
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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, 2021Maybe CLB is OK but has no soul for me... I couldn't catch the vibe. I have a few songs i like in CLB but don't like enough to listen a second time. Also listening the whole album didn't serve me a good experience.
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Sep 3, 2021I mean, wtf was this? Worst exerience in a while. This mf only does mid music for girls every album
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Sep 3, 2021cLb (capitalized the L) is absolute doodoo ass. I created this account just to give this trash album a 0. so disappointed.
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Sep 3, 2021Drake put a lowpass filter on every track, felt like a chore to listen to, I guess Kanye won
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Sep 3, 2021Extremely mediocre album. Most songs sounded very similar and the features could've been way better. This albums lacked originality and shows that drake is incapable of being versatile with his music today.
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Sep 3, 2021''CERTIFIED LOVER BOY'' sounds like a playlist of unreleased songs from drake's latest albums
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Sep 3, 2021Boring. Not even the features can save it. All the songs sound the same and have the same tone to them.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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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 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, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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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, 2021Trash album. Really a disappointment. Boring and uninspired. Certified Hot garbage
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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 4, 2021This is the worst album I’ve ever heard. Can’t believe he dished this out over a beef. Needed to shelve many of these songs. The only reason it’s worth listening to is for the collabs. Sad when only thing worth hearing on your album is other people. Can’t believe this is same guy who gave us Scorpion. Get some new ghostwriters Aubrey.
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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, 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, 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 guess drake had a contract obligation to release an album because this is absolute dogsheet.
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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 4, 2021Só jail do donda é melhor que esse álbum inteiro. Álbum lamentável, terrível!! MID, MID, MID, MID! Queria saber o que esse cara tem na cabeça pra ver esse álbum e pensar que tá bom o suficiente pra lançar kkkk. É um dos piores do drake.
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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, 2021I don’t really like the album, also disappointing that Nicki didn’t have a verse.
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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, 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, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 4, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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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, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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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, 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. I expected more from this album after all.
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Sep 4, 2021Drake shoulda kept this trash, I could feel my ears bleed when he referred to himself as a lesbian
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Sep 4, 2021garbage like actual trash, dude has like 50 ghostwriters and still cant make a good album
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Sep 4, 2021An absolutely soulless and lifeless new album by Drake sounds sonically similar to many past albums and adds nothing new of value to his discography. If you want a boring, generic, safe hip hop album then this is the one for you.
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Sep 4, 2021
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Sep 4, 2021it’s expensively well-produced, like all of Drake’s albums, and easily likable with a decent batting average for a nearly hour-and-a-half record." ... Read full review
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Sep 5, 2021Drake is lame. This album is garbage. Same corny style. He is not an artist. Never evolves. Found a sound that worked and has stuck with that. He may as well made an album years ago with 100 tracks instead of dropping new projects with the same stuff. Sell out. Corny. Drake you need to retire you lamo
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Sep 5, 2021It is way too overrated. They are all skips. The old albums are way better.
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Sep 5, 2021Don't let the biased users mislead you. This album is a classic and they'll start admitting it a couple years later like all Drake albums
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Sep 5, 2021Way 2 sexy is a perfect theme song for this album. Not because its sexy, but because the whole thing is just as god awful.
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Sep 5, 2021
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Sep 6, 2021Not enjoyable at all. Its all the same flows. Drake’s a 34 y/o and look at his hairstyle. I mean you can ofcourse expect a “girl you a lesbian,me too ayy” from this guy. Drake sucks. He cant ever recover from his Pusha T beef. And his fanbase have 0 taste in music
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Sep 7, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 11, 2021Las críticas de expertos no valen para nada, todo se mueve por afinidad política. Más nota que Donda jajajaj. Es una basura, para dormir a las ovejas.
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Sep 19, 2021Quite literally the worst album I ever heard. Drakes new music is so bad. He only makes songs for the radio now and they aren't that good.
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Oct 13, 2021WE OFF THE GRID GRID GRID THIS ALBUM MID MID MID. jk its trash, drizzy is washed and this only got a positive score from the critics because hes lightskin
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Oct 23, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 30, 2021generic lyric with dump production and worst lead single he choose for album he try sing but cant do it this should be mixtape not an album wbk his local rapper with boring a$$ songs
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Jan 7, 2022This album is Utter garbage that mutt drake should just do the world a favor and off him self
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Jun 19, 2022The fact that not a single critic is willing to give this record a negative review is concerning.
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.