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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1158 Ratings
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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, 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, 2021this album is so boring and underwhelming.
i mean it’s drake what do you expect.
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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, 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, 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 3, 2021I don’t really like the album, also disappointing that Nicki didn’t have a verse.
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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, 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 3, 2021Repetitive beats with sub-par lyricism , a staple for drake music since 2015
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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, 2021Same old nonsense from a Mans who music hasn’t evolved in almost a decade
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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, 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, 2021Same thing as the last album, Drake sounding criminally repetitive. Unacceptable for a artist of this dimension.
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Sep 4, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 4, 2021Drake has made the same album for the past 10 years and it’s getting inexcusable. Had a few catchy tracks but sounds more like a mixtape.
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Sep 4, 2021
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Sep 4, 2021Only thing makin it not a zero is him dropping Life of the party, best somg he ever dropped
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Sep 5, 2021An amazing album ! One of his best albums to date. Drake never misses when it comes to his art !
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Sep 5, 2021Genuinely love this album!!!! It’s my fav project from him since NWTS. Definitely Aoty so far.
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Sep 5, 2021
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Sep 5, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 6, 2021better than donda. drake at another lvl rn. Album is very relaxing, its a lot of good rappers on it. Drake= GOAT
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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 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.