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Sep 7, 2021With 21 tracks over 86 minutes somehow still feels tight next to the interminable “Donda” — is an enjoyment even at its bleakest. ... Even minus this get-out-of-jail-free stuff, “Certified Lover Boy” is so sharply composed and performed as to be largely irresistible.
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Sep 9, 2021CLB can feel formulaic, as if checking off boxes on an executive producer’s clipboard. Despite the frequent predictability, it’s exciting to see a consummate professional at work.
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Sep 7, 2021The album suffers from this unfocused overabundance of voices. ... It’s ultimately a shame since Certified Lover Boy could have very well been Drake’s best record. Sonically, it’s his most impressive offering to date.
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Sep 3, 2021“Certified Lover Boy” is a perfectly fine record — it’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.
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Sep 8, 2021The resulting record is largely another missed opportunity for experimentation from the man many consider the current best rapper in the game. Yes, the theatrics, and introspection, and even a few moments of musical deftness, are there. But overall, it’s nothing to depart from 2018’s Scorpion or 2016’s Views. There’s nothing groundbreaking here.
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Sep 3, 2021Drake’s new release may lack some of the variety of his previous albums, but its concepts and musical structure make for a solid body of work.
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Sep 7, 2021With much of Certified Lover Boy, Drake seems to be doing what he thinks Drake would do, and ticking the box is taking its toll.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 253 out of 1158
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Mixed: 218 out of 1158
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Negative: 687 out of 1158
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Sep 3, 2021
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Sep 3, 2021This is what we have been waiting for? This must have been the wrong upload
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Sep 3, 2021This album is just so bland and boring, we’re facing a Scorpion 2, just not fun and not quality music