'Certified Lover Boy' is a patient trickle of Drake lore and fan service that could have come out as is at almost any point along the last decade in his career. Read CraigSJ's review
On Certified, the Boy’s truest loves are family, wealth, and self. Photo: Drake via YouTube The first sound heard on Certified Lover Boy, the sixth studio album by Canadian hip-hop heavyweight Drake, is a sliver of the 1965 Beatles song “Michelle” . If you follow the lore, you know the Boy got a tattoo on his forearm a few years ago depicting himself waving back to the Fab Four, in commemoration of shattering a few chart records previously held by the Liverpool legends.
A lot has shifted since 2018’s Scorpion and even since last spring’s stopgap B-side collection Dark Lane Demo Tapes: political upheaval, climate catastrophes, millions of tragic deaths worldwide. Inside Drake songs, these troubles fade away. We worry not about the shaky present and the unknowable future but about the recent past, the objects of our scorn and the ones who got away.
As Drake revisits scenes from his musical past, he slips into familiar patterns. “You Only Live Twice” sells Bond-film excess and nods to the motto from “The Motto.” The man who made “No New Friends,” a catchphrase in 2013, hasn’t changed his tune in “No Friends in the Industry.” This is also the sensibility in “Fair Trade”: “I’ve been losing friends and finding peace.
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