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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1158 Ratings
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Sep 3, 2021Only 2 songs that are okay:
No friends in the industry
Fair trade (even though Travis messed it up)
Such a let down of an album. -
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, 2021drake can do way better than this. Had really high expections from this but..
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Sep 3, 2021Super over hated album already. People are comparing to Donda. But in reality, this album is just better. The features are better, it’s more structured and it just sounds better. People love to hate on drake but will be calling this album great in a year.
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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, 2021Another Classic from the 6️⃣ god. Sad it’s getting reviewed bombed by a bunch of Ye stans.
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Sep 4, 2021The beats represent the song and vocals very well, great sounding vocals, amazing features, incredible lyricism. Don’t hate, 10/10 album.
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Sep 3, 2021Meh. It’s an okay album. Not bad. Good at times. Not amazing. Same old Drake we’ve been hearing for almost a decade now.
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Sep 3, 2021Esse é o pior álbum da discografia do drake, ele quis repetir a fórmula de "scorpion" e parece que saiu tudo no automático
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Sep 3, 2021His worst album so far! Making it free in Spotify for a week was just too desperate
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Sep 3, 2021Disappointment is the best I can describe this. Is this really what we were waiting for
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Sep 3, 2021A continuation of Drakes exponential decline in quality that started with views.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021Meh, was ok, but couldn't help but feel it was too similar to everything else he has done. IDK, but would be fair to say i'm a fair bit let down.
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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, 2021I expected there to be a few bangers that can act as a single, turns out all the songs are mind-numbingly bad, with the same beat, same flow while the features (Travis and Lil Wayne) did well they could not overcome those basic ass beats.
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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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, 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, 2021No major hits on this one but The album serves the Lover Boy theme though.
Cohesion is Good and the production is excellent. More features than usual for a Drake album that are also spot on. If you go to the Movies to watch a great Love story while expecting an action movie with Bruce Willis you shouldn't go in the first place. I expect good reviews on this one in contrast with Kanye's DONDA. -
Sep 3, 2021Mid asf album, 0/10 i cant listen to it without my ears bleeding
even the good asf ft's couldnt save this piece of ass. -
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, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021Im dissapointed in what Drake did I feel like in 1 hour and 40 minutes Drake did not have single good bar.
Beats are good but I still almost fell a sleep when Drake was rappin. -
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, 20211 good song and 3 decent. Every else was a complete waste of time and precious AirPod battery. I’d rather listen to a ten hour loop of a kid screaming in Walmart than listen to this absolutely **** album. Drake is and always has been trash
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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, 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, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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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, 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, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021Wow, I think this is one of the best albums of the year. Amazing! Get into the vibe of the songs, allow yourself to live this album and the criticism to the rapper stereotype present in it!
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Sep 3, 2021haven't heard it yet but I'm giving it a 10 cause y'all are a bunch of hating hags
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Sep 4, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021This album is a Masterpiece and we all Know that. The wait was worth it Drake never miss
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Sep 3, 2021No artistic growth, the whole album is a Kanye diss and the tracks that aren’t were leaked before or just not good material. To be attacking Kanye in this way, it is important to note that Drake has never made an album as good as MBDTF and he’s older than Kanye was when he made that album.
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021play this in your car if it has an excellent sound system early in the morning or late at night when it's dark out & no cars are on the road appreciate the fact that this album will make you cry and want to give drake a hug because of how good it is any negative review you see on here is all lies this album is hot man
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Sep 3, 2021It’s great. Nothing more to add, it’s just perfect. I loved it. The flow in every song is impecable. The features didn’t disappoint.
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Sep 3, 2021Same old sh*t. I can't believe I wasted my time listening to this
Only lil baby and cudi raised the level of this album a bit, the rest is a sleeping pill -
Sep 3, 2021If you’ve liked Drake all along, this bolsters your claim he is on the top of the hip/hop - r/b throne that HE created in the first place, if you’ve never been driving alone and played a drake song, you won’t like it, and still will never play him alone
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Sep 3, 2021‘They’ll hate on CLB just like they did on Views’, album SLAPS, love the features and the intro is solid gold ❤️
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Sep 3, 2021Drizzy Drake is back with the bops. Artist of the decade. Rap album of the year.
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Sep 3, 2021wonderful, loved cixgztxuxggigidixgixgdgistidduhxzggsogdoogdogoxgcighogooghovh
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Sep 3, 2021High level songs, it's cool having collabs with good artists , there isn't something different we expect
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Sep 3, 2021The Entire album is a vibe !! Its Drake at his finest samples, and production
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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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, 2021Overall some hits. I feel like the cover art is a blow. But overall I liked it!
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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 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, 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 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 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 6, 2021An album with lack of creativity. Very weak. One of the worst I've listened to, from the trap/rap genre.
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Sep 6, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021After a few play throughs it’s safe to say this album continues Drake’s lineage of dropping mediocre albums that are carried by a couple of stand out tracks. Boring overall with a few moments of greatness.
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Sep 3, 2021
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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, 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 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, 2021
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Sep 4, 2021It's formulaic for Drake. Gimme two weeks, and I probably will have forgotten it.
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Sep 6, 2021Simply basic album. Which is far from what I expected. there are so many weird lyrics that i can't describe
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Nov 28, 2021Drake surprised me with this one, I was expecting something a lot better than this, to be honest. There is nothing that sounds original in the album and every other song sounds like the other ones on the album. Disappointed.
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Sep 3, 2021Absolutely disgusted by the title and album cover and the meaning. Basically a celebration of not only promiscuity but an album cover of many different pregnant woman who would ultimately give birth to fatherless children which is the biggest plight facing black americans today. What a shameful thing to promote.
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Sep 3, 2021Decent album. Has some good moments.
I would recommend Papi's Home, Fair Trade and No Friends in The Industry as the standout tracks in the album. -
Sep 3, 2021L’album #CLB de Drake
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Sep 3, 2021Really good album. I love how each song joins in together in ways, and how every song gives off a nice vibe. Wish Laugh Now Cry Later and Vital were on it, but there are so many bangers.
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021Good mix of easy vibes and bars. Very good features in comparison to other major albums out at the moment. Drake has mastered the catchy yet in depth rapping over very well produced beats. Samples almost make the listener feel nostalgic or emotional. 9/10 not a 10/10 only because of the album cover otherwise no complaints
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Sep 3, 2021This is the Drake I been missing and anyone calling it mid is a hater. This will age well just like most Drake projects
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Sep 3, 2021Classic album and it’s going to pave the way for a transition in how we define hip hop (topics, style) as the topics presented are far from what we are always know
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021This was 8.5 but to offset some of the most biased idiotic reviews here - I’m bump it up a bit.
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021It ended Kanye in every way Kanye stans stay mad, reminder that drake outsold Kanye in sales
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021Once again Drake drops a classic album. Like always it’s a mix of club bangers and slow songs. Drake seemingly can’t miss!!
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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, 2021Closest rap music came to ambient (though ambient is sometimes emotionally touching, which is simply not the case here). Boring to tears, standard beats, lazy bars, zero energy.
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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, 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 4, 202100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ⁿ0000000
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Sep 3, 2021drake this was not it im really dissapointed nothing special sounds the same
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Sep 3, 2021That **** was trash. IMO……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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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, 2021This is really awful and boring at the same time just like all his 3 previous albums.
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Sep 3, 2021this is his worst album. all songs are the same and boring. drake has become an artist who doesn't bring new things anymore.
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Sep 3, 2021Its midcore as most of drakes new projects it will do numbers but no one will praise it as good album in future
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Sep 3, 2021just awful. so disappointed. I literally fell asleep while listening to this. sorry but man, I'm unstanning u.
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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, 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 4, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 3, 2021Realmente mas de lo mismo de Drake, mucho relleno creo que es muy flojo este album, tal parece que Drake solo se dedica hacer lo que desde 2012 hace.
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Sep 3, 2021Another album for tiktok, Drake couldn’t fit all this collabs, he could do an another aoty but only did one more album
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Sep 3, 2021literally one of the worst albums i've ever listened, **** so boring and repetitive
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.