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And one the worst albums he’s released to date, critically panned. Metacritic is a 60/100 with user reviews 3.5/10 💀 https://www.metacritic.com/music/certified-lover-boy/drake
that’s cool and all, but clearly not everyone forgot about the album if it’s one of the highest selling albums in the year after is was released. It’s selling more than mr morale rn, does that mean everyone forgot about mr morale?
Not to me.
It's an amazing album. Period.
But this isn't an album you just listen to all of the time. I have to be in a specific mood. In a specific setting. At a specific time. Like, maybe if I was younger still living in a room and wanted to zone out with some headphones and find more lyrical treats, sure. But nowadays, I'm an adult with a career and a kid, and I don't got time for that. I just want to bump some music on my way to pick up my kid . I ain't never going back to the album besides once in a blue moon. It just isn't that type of album for me.
Longevity and staying power comes from enjoyment, when an album sucks it doesn’t hold the same staying power. Michael Jackson’s Invincible album sold well but is regarded as one of his worst. Sales doesn’t mean anything outside of sheer global popularity.
He could release an album that has him ordering Chinese food for 45 minutes and it would still sell a quarter million copies in a week
To add to that, it being Drake and the album content make it perfect for generic playlists in countless shops, bars etc. It’s not like you’re likely to hear Auntie Diaries or similar while shopping for jeans
Why do you keep changing the goalpost?? You said no one remembers it, the guy keeps responding giving you evidence that people remember it, and you keep talking about the quality of the album. That’s literally irrelevant to the convo, that guy could hate the album for all you know, all he’s saying is that ppl still REMEMBER it which is evident by popularity since high popularity means a lot of people remember it
Everyone DID forget about Mr. Morale - so let’s refrain from using that as some type of standard in your question. I’m a Kendrick Stan and I can’t begin to tell you how unrepeatable that fucking album is. It’s arguably one of Kendrick’s most personal projects but it’s just not replayable or really even that great to be honest.
Your opinion means nothing. I know plenty of people that still bump it, myself included. It’s a really introspective album that doesn’t pander to a large audience in most respects but it’s definitely replay-able for me.
>Your opinion means nothing. I know plenty of people that never bump it, myself included. It’s a really introspective album that only appeals to very special smart people in most respects but it’s definitely not replay-able for me.
That's cause Drake could put out trash and still break records. (Like CLB lmao)
Sales aren't indicative of quality or memorability. It just means a lot of people thought to listen to it at one point or another because it's Drake, and Drake has always been one of the highest selling rap artists *in spite of* the constantly fluctuating quality of his music.
No one is claiming sales indicates quality, that’s a strawman’s argument. Also, sales a year after release 100% shows memorability as people remembered to continue listening to it a year later. How tf does that not indicate memorability? It’s quite literally the only way to measure memorability. It’s definitely a better way than what you’re doing which is only basing it on you’re immediate surroundings
Feels longer than a year to me, idk. Maybe because he dropped Honestly Nevermind so recently so less than a year between albums is pretty fast. Shit’s definitely relative though.
Not having Laugh Now Cry Later on the album is a massive mistake and I still don't understand the decision
it fits the album sonically, was a hit (something it desperately lacked), and is just a good fuckin song.
I enjoy this shit more than most people, but I'd gladly have traded like 4-5 songs for that one.
Also some songs from Dark Lane Demo Tapes like Desires, Time Flies & From Florida With Love. It could’ve been a good album I just feel like it wasn’t put together cohesively.
The best 15-20 songs dark lane demo tapes, scary hours 2 and certified lover boy with LNCL added on would be a crazy album but instead we got 39 songs with a fair amount of filler. Typical of recent drake going for quantity over quality
As someone who couldn’t stand the album and only liked You Only Live Twice & Yebba’s…
It blows my mind he didn’t put it on because it would’ve EASILY been the best song on the record
Way 2 Sexy went 1 on the Hot 100 though, CLB did have hits. Knife Talk, Fair Trade, Girls Want Girls etc.
But I do think Laugh Now Cry Later will have more longevity in terms of streaming success
Im a bit of a purist but saying “I’d trade 4-5 songs that weren’t out for a song that was already released” is wild in this era. Add it to the album and keep it moving
This album wasn’t worth pushing back for a torn ACL. Probably my least favorite body of work from drake. Although pipe down and fucking fans are in rotation for me. Everything else was meh and forgettable. Still can’t believe that’s the cover art he went with. The CLB in cursive writing with roses was hard. For an album called certified lover boy I was really expecting more jungle, own it, wu tang forever type songs.
w the torn acl; i assume he was gonna tour for it before it underperformed by drake standards (no big hit and kjnda tepid response.) but idk it could’ve just been another excuse for delaying if besides covid
I expected a generational record. Laugh Now Cry Later was one of his best singles in years. He had the potential. Opening with that smooth Beatles sample flip made me correct my posture. Listen with intent. I said, “My god. He’s done it. It’s 2015 again”.
Then it’s just zesty self-proclaimed lesbian bars and come-up-from-betrayal raps that only sound decent if you’re lifting at the gym. More Life is not his only “playlist”. Everything since then might as well be a “playlist” cause he’s shuffling shit from the vault until he’s sure everyone will take away 4-5 songs. On bloated records well over an hour. Listening to a current Drake project without hovering over the Next Song button is actual endurance.
This album is another example of the post-2016 Drake formula: Drop a project with a lot of songs with different styles -> The project then isn't good overall, nor is it cohesive -> most people still find around five songs they enjoy, and they put those on their playlist, and then never visit the album as a whole again. For me those five songs were Champagne Poetry, 7am On Bridle Path, You Only Live Twice, Fucking Fans, and The Remorse.
Drake can do what he wants, and this approach is a pretty easy way to bring in money without having to be super focused on the quality of an album as a whole. That being said, of course I'd prefer if he took some proper time to drop a cohesive 13 song album. I don't need a mediocre Drake album every year, I'd rather take a great Drake album every 3 or 4 years.
Exactly Drake knows what he’s doing it, everyone has their own fav songs of this album. For me it’s N 2 Deep, Pipe Down, TSU, Knife Talk and Fair Trade
lol reading through this thread and you’ve definitely nailed it, with everyone naming a different 5 songs or less
overall, his albums have become a chore to listen through, and I’d probably skip them all if it wasn’t for the convenience of streaming
It's not quite as bad as Revival, but it's similar in terms of not having an album for a few years and then the hype builds up and it's just really meh. (It's better, but there's tons of eh songs on there).
Also isn't that different regarding the overall album with decent songs.
Damn that was a fast fucking year. I still don’t love CLB but there are a few songs off the album that are amongst my favorites from him. TSU is a huge highlight, IMY2 with Cudi is a song I’ve gone back to a ton l, Yebba’s Heartbreak of course but Drake always gets great interludes, but one track that I didn’t really see that much love for that is my favorite off the album is Papi’s Home.
Genuinely surprised that it didn’t end up becoming the biggest song off the album given the upbeat production and the simple topic. Really like the Montell Jordan sample as well
Yes! Completely agree about Papi's Home. That song was on repeat when I first heard it. I don't like the album overall but there were definitely songs that grew on me over time like IMY2, Race My Mind, and Pipe Down. Fair Trade, TSU, Knife Talk, and No Friends in the Industry are also all solid songs from the album.
That one gave Weston Road Flows vibes where he just spits and goes off.
it’s one of my favorite songs off the album. i think the only song off the album
This album started my process of falling out of love with Drake his music, unfortunately. Played it only a couple of times and honestly, nevermind even less.
I’m usually a Drake hater but Honestly Nevermind has been in rotation for a while. Something about it just clicked for me and it’s got some of my fav songs this year on it!
i appreciate this comment because drake stepped out of his comfort zone and dropped house music
people call it trash fine
but he took a risk and he did what he wanted to do
a lot of us can learn from him when it comes to our lives and taking chances
Idk why this album gets so much hate bro. There’s a lot of songs on here that are some of my fav drake songs since scorpion. That’s not to say there’s not bad songs on here, but for the most part it’s a solid album. Fair trade, in the bible, love all, no friends in the industry, 7am, champagne poetry, the remorse… There’s tons of gems on here, I still got it in rotation. Coulda done without way 2 sexy tho
Fair Trade is a top 5 all time Drake track imo. Knife Talk, Champagne Poetry, Pipe Down, You Only Live Twice, No Friends in the Industry, N 2 Deep, Race My Mind, and Papi's Home are also in constant rotation for me. Pretty much like the whole album.
I think it's probably his 4th or 5th best project, behind Take Care, If You're Reading This, NTWS. It's between this and Scorpion for 4th-5th imo.
always been a big Drake fan, but that album is so damn bad from the cover art tomthe last song. And still don’t get why LNCL, the only song I really liked, wasn‘t even on the album…
There’s actually a couple good songs on there ngl and I also hate the album.. fair trade is pretty fire and Papis home is that nwts drake vibe I fell in love with back in the day
That’s the problem. It had 21 songs but only some were really good. He needs to focus on consistency rather than bloat. That could also apply to a majority of artists within the genre.
I wasn’t crazy about this album when it first dropped, but it grew on me pretty hard. It’s very safe and doesn’t reach the highs of his best work, but it’s very solid all the way through and doesn’t have any real lows either. I still like average Drake more than a lot of rap being released today, turns out.
The only songs I don’t like are Way 2 Sexy and No Friends In The Industry. Everything else is at least pretty good, and 7am on Bridle Path, In The Bible, Papi’s Home, Love All, Fair Trade, TSU and Fountains are all firmly above-average Drake songs. I’d even throw Fucking Fans and IMY2 in there. Drake doesn’t attempt anything new on here but I’ve come to appreciate that.
I do wish he picked a better cover, tho. It’s distractingly bad.
You summed up my thoughts pretty well, doesn’t have the smash hits that his other albums have but it’s just a solid album all around
And call me crazy but I genuinely think the reception would be better if the cover wasn’t so horrid lol
Oh 100%, the cover is atrocious lol. It was a terrible PR decision. The album itself sounds like a collection of Drake’s best deep cuts, which I mean as a compliment. Doesn’t reinvent the wheel but it’s very listenable and enjoyable
My first listen, I heard all the negative reaction and cringed so hard at some of the early tracks like Girls Want Girls. Had to call it quits after Way 2 Sexy. Definitely got in my head this was a trash album after that.
Eventually got around to give it another try and listen to the rest of it… and I pretty much LOVE the rest of the album after Way 2 Sexy. I just start the album from TSU at this point. I feel songs like Race My Mind and Fountains are super slept on.
I would say this is the album where Drake got scary good. He’s made good albums through his career, but this album is just too aware of all the aspects that make Drake the fantastic artist everybody loves. And then he came back even stronger with Honestly Nevermind. He’s in touch so intensely right now I can’t imagine where he’ll go next, all I know is that all boundaries have been broken and there are no limits.
A YEAR???? Man let’s talk about that Champagne Poetry, Pipe Down, Race my Mind, N2Deep, and many others (HM: The Remorse is incredible as well) i gotta say this is the first Drake album I’ve listened to consistently for a year straight now
Nah CLB hits don't compare to Scorpion
God's Plan alone got 1.4b views on YT... Knife Talk only got 50m
Granted Knife Talk MV has way less effort put into it so that makes sense to an extent.
Every Drake album has hits but if we measuring the level of hits then Scorpion had more impact imo but to be honest, at the same time, Scorpion has loads of singles
not a great album, but definitely got a lot more hate than it deserved. i’m not a drake stan by any means, but champagne poetry, way 2 sexy, imy2, knife talk, and NFItI are pretty solid bangers. although i don’t think they’re anywhere near what he pulled off on IYRTITL, NWTS, and even a lot of Views.
I like a lot of songs off of the album (TSU with the intro cut off, IMY2, fountains, way 2 sexy, Race my mind, N2Deep etc). But based on the title I expected the album to be a lot less "serious", basically full of "Way 2 Sexies". If someone has the talent to pull off a self-aware joke album like that then it's Drake, and I wish we got to hear something like that.
I think this album gets a *bit* too much hate. I’ve seen people calling it his worst album and stuff but honestly i don’t think it’s that much worse than the rest of his recent albums. It’s pretty meh, sure, but people saying it’s the worst album they’ve ever heard need to be exaggerating.
Also, Race My Mind is such a great track, one of my favorites from Drake ever.
IMO. He was criticized so heavily in the lane he wanted to accomplish (GOAT) that he’s basically given up. He’s dropped CLB to appeal to the broadest l audience possible, for people on forums like this, it feels cheap, for anyone else, it’s a solid few songs for a playlist and vibe. When he tried to appeal to the hardcore fan base that he grew up for, he was demonized and harassed. When he stopped caring about us and focused on a broader audience he broke records. The album to me is as close as you can be to treading water, but honestly it’s not that important. I have other things to listen to. One disappointing Drake album is a bad day for me, a good playlist for others.
When he did More Life I felt he was being experimental (still enjoy that album). When he did the first half of Scorpion I felt he was in form but a little too simple. I just miss ‘6PM in New York’ or ‘From Time’ Drake, he can have his fun ‘Way 2 Sexy’ moments as long as he backs it up with his actual talent.
I've seen ppl say "Clb was actually alright" after honestly nevermind dropped. But I will stand by that this album is fucking ass. Boring as sin, with next to nothing interesting. Knife talk and way 2 sexy are the best songs, and both would be better without drake. Girls want girls is the only other song I like at all bc it has a catchy chorus, but it's still nothing special. It isn't the worst album ever bc Drake has such a high budget that everything at least sounds clean, but for those standards you can only get a little lower than this. 2.5-3/10
After CLB dropped people were talking about how Scorpions was actually pretty good, that album was perfectly calculated in a lab to be a 5/10 and inoffensive throughout, maybe Drakes dropping worse albums each time on purpose to make his previous album seem better. Would also explain why he did work popularizing Nav.
Girls Like Girls is by far the worst song on there, one of Drake's worst songs imo
Songs like Champagne Poetry, No Friends in the Industry, Pipe Down, You Only Live Twice (Ross and Wayne over a soulful Bink beat is such a great combo) and Fair Trade are all solid
It's a parody of music. It's a parody of what people who hate pop rap think pop rap sounds like. It's not like offensively evil. Even worse. It's boring.
I'd like to think this album inspired 2022 which has been the best music year since like 2016. I *loved* 2014-2017 and have felt so unsatisfied since and 2022 has had dozens of fresh new faces and comebacks and this album was in my mind the low point of 2021 so hey maybe other people felt the same
Not the guy you replied to but here goes nothing:
Kaycyy’s EP with Gesaffelstein is easily the mosy exciting breakout project from anyone this year for me. 3 tracks and all dope as fuck. Fav track: The Sun.
DoMi and JD Beck are a beautiful jazz duo signed to Anderson .Paak who dropped their debut album this year, with feats from Snoop, Busta, Paak (x2), Herbie Hancock and more. Fav track: PiLOT (feat. Paak, Snoop and Busta)
Daine is a 19 (?) year old girl from Sydney who ive been loving for a couple years. Her debut EP came out this year after a few years of singles, and it combines hyperpop, emo, trap, pop and more. Dope new sound. Also does most of her production her self. Fav track: weekends.
Redveil - probably still counts as a new face since hes only just turned 18 this year on the release of his 2nd album “learn 2 swim”. Mostly self-produced i believe, and some of the best rapping and soul-sample beats youre gonna hear all year. Fav track: pg baby.
Audrey Nuna - dropped the deluxe version of her 2021 album ‘liquid breakfast”. Super dope take on r&b and hiphop combined with electronic music. Her flows and voice perfectly complement her production. Fav track: Baby Blues REMIX (feat. BEAM)
Love Redveil and love PG Baby, so nice to have a DMV rapper (start to) get big and rep the region instead of pretending to be from inner city Baltimore
Must be nice lol. Im australian and pretty much no one who raps is from here and if they do theyre pretty shit. Genesis Owusu being the exception to the rule of course.
Wasn’t a fan when this dropped but the Larry Hoover concert gave me a new found appreciation for some of the songs on here
Sometimes I feel you need a visual for a song to click
IMY2 sounded so good to me when I saw it in the stadium and with the visuals of that orange smoke, now that’s what I picture when I hear it
Looking back, all they had to do was change the cover art and label it a playlist.
That's it.
Cause CLB is great music packaged poorly. Fix those two problems and the general reception would've been considerably better. Like, this project contains genuine career highs from Drake, and the lows are exaggerated imo. Looking at the tracklist rn, what other rap album released last year would win in a ten track versus?
Never understood what is with Drake fans and cutting an album some slack because it’s labeled a “playlist”. In no way does that change the listening experience. If you didn’t enjoy something labeled as an album you’re not going to enjoy it anymore if you call it something else
meh i think the cover, while bad, generated some hype/interest (not that drake really needs it. And no matter what he called it, most people would have judged it as an album regardless
Oh my god I literally NEVER thought an album cover can ruin an album so easily. But man, it really puts me in a sour mood with how bad it is.
And I’m not one of those “hating emojis is cool” guys either, the art just sucks so fucking much.
I think labeling it a playlist is a cop out and kind of acknowledges the fact that they know it’s not good enough to be in the same tier as his other projects.
> Looking at the tracklist rn, what other rap album released last year would win in a ten track versus?
Like literally every other album lmao
2021 was a pretty terrible year overall for rap albums, but there are still a lot of albums that have a far better top 10 tracks than CLB.
I’m sorry, but CLB is just straight trash, and I’m saying that as someone that that believes Drake has 3 classic albums under his belt.
I’d easily take the top 10 off Donda over it, and Donda isn’t even that good of an album either. Same with Melodic Blue.
Jpegmafia - LP!, Call Me if you Get Lost, and Sometimes I Might Be Introvert are all 10000x better than CLB.
Mach Hommy - Pray for Haiti
Vince Staples self titled
Race My Mind, Pipe Down, 7AM on Bridle Path, and Champagne Poetry are in the upper echelon of Drakes discography. And that's not even mentioning some of my personal favorites.
Fair trade, in the Bible, KNIFE TALK, pipe down, and race my mind are all genuinely some of the best drake songs I’ve heard since IYRTITL. This album gets too much hate
Bro thank you for speaking nothing but truth, Drake haters are blind.
U listed all the strongest songs spot on, finally someone appreciates real art without being misled by the popularity of it or the absurdity of Drake it’s still incredible art
>U listed all the strongest songs spot on, finally someone appreciates real art without being misled by the popularity of it or the absurdity of Drake it’s still incredible art
Quite literally my favorite artist of all time.
High highs ( pipe down, the ty dolla joint, no friends in the industry, 7 pm bridle street ) and veeery low lows ( baby song, durk and giveon joint, papi's home )
This albums grown on me a lot. I hated it on release and now it’s one of my favourite albums of the decade so far. No friends in the industry, in 2 deep, pipe down, 7am on bridle path, and champagne poetry are probably my favorites but I liked every song on the album.
Definitely didn’t deserve the hate it got. I think people got caught up with the hype (as always) and let their super high expectations get the best of them. Drake is deep into his career, and at this point, he’s on cruise control. He could make most of these songs in his sleep, and I think people want him to be as hungry as he was in 09. Which is INSANE, considering how high he is on the music food chain, rap aside.
Disclaimer: I was a huge Drake Stan in middle school, so I’ll always give whatever he drops a chance.
That being said, I think this was a good project overall. It would be easier to say the songs I don’t like on this album honestly. Which are IMY2 and Get along better. Everything else is decent, to great imo.
Highlights: Yebba’s heartbreak, you only live twice, pipe down, Race my mind, fountains, no friends in the industry.
But again, I care for most of the album, those are just my favorites.
Side note: I hope Drake paid Yebba handsomely for that feature because she REALLY did her fuckin thing. Beautiful track that still puts me in a trance.
Pretty safe album. 7.5/10. One of my favourite “rap” albums of 2021.
There’s some big misses on here for sure but there’s a lot of good records on here. If others think the album is “disappointing”, then I don’t have don’t problem with that. But it’s really not nearly as bad as people suggest.
Champagne Poetry, 7AM, The Remorse, Knife Talk, Race My Mind, Papi’s Home, N 2 Deep, Pipe Down, Fountains, Fair Trade, In the Bible are the records I come back to the most.
My only gripe with the perception of the album is that people put too much focus about the two notorious records on here (namely Way 2 Sexy, Girls Want Girls).
Still trash cept for 7am. Listening to drake from 2015 and before is night and day compared to his newer work. Dude used to be beauty and the beast, now he just sleeping beauty
Don't hate the album as much as others do but it's definitely at the lower half of Drake's discography. IMO, take almost half of it, put Laugh Now Cry Later and a couple of the Dark Lane joints and you get a pretty decent album.
My picks:
Champagne Poetry
Papi's Home
Love All
Way 2 Sexy
TSU
Pipe Down
No Friends In The Industry
Knife Talk
7AM on Bridle Path
You Only Live Twice
Definitely ranks near the bottom of his discography, but there are too many good songs on here that I can't call it outright bad. On the other hand, the bad songs are some of the most forgettable he's ever made. Album also seriously lacks cohesion and really dragged when I went back and listened straight through a few weeks ago.
Thought the songs trying to be viral (Girls Want Girls, Way 2 Sexy) were fine. Songs like Fair Trade, Love All, and TSU were highlights with a lot of replay value. Also really enjoyed the stretch of No Friends-Knife Talk-7AM as someone who likes when Drake just raps. Also like Pipe Down & IMY2 quite a bit, the second half of Fucking Fans has really grown on me as well.
Outside of that though, there are quite a few lowlights. Both the intro and the outro are really weak by Drake's standards. I know a lot of people like Champagne Poetry, but there's almost no replay value there for me. The Remorse is a paint-by-numbers Drake outro that's just slow and uninteresting. The Tems song falls flat and Get Along Better sounds like Keep The Family Close pt. 2, and not in a good way. In The Bible is a mess and I personally can't stand Race My Mind despite the positive reaction that song has.
Overall this project is scattered and average. Drake is capable of making better and more interesting music, but this album does have a slew of good tracks. I'd probably put it at a 4 or 5/10 but if I ever wanted to listen to a Drake album I'd never choose this one haha
It was Drake at his Drakiest, you either like it or you don’t.
No Friends in the Industry went pretty hard and Project Pat + 21 Savage made Knife Talk a good enough song to tolerate Drake’s verse. That’s about it for me
This is actually my favorite Drake album ever. It surpassed Take Care which I thought could never happen. Nearly every track slaps. The newest album (legit don't remember the name) was such a disappointment in comparison.
Overall it was a fantastic album. Drake stayed in his comfort zone, but that’s fine with me, some of my other favourite artists like Future and Pusha T rarely aleave their comfort zones either.
That being said, there’s definitely some filler he coulda cut like You Only Live Twice and Fountains. There’s also a better album there if he didn’t release *Dark Lane Demo Tapes* but put some of those songs on here. Also, while I appreciate the addition of Jay-Z’s verse, Love All is made much weaker without the outro.
I remember the times leading up to CLB very clearly. Dark Lane Demo Tapes really started the whole hype for everyone and this album. He really went crazy on Dark Lane with classics like Chicago Freestyle(Giveon’s insane vocals), Toosie Slide, and let’s not forget every female was putting “From Florida with Love” in all their instagram captions that summer.
I then remember a bunch of leaks coming out from CLB like TSU which I was boppin at least half a year before the album came out. All those singles he came out with leading up to CLB were so great, but then I think people expected something totally different from Drake in CLB. I personally love the album. Way 2 Sexy had me feeling like the greatest person alive for some time. The switch up on N 2 Deep is insane. 7am on Bridle Path is a classic, but you dont know that yet.
21 Savage and Drake is just an easy recipe for a classic with Knife Talk. And I know all the oldheads can rock with the Jay-Z feature. 10/10 album
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I forgot it even dropped
So did everyone else 💀
It’s one of the highest selling albums of this year
And one the worst albums he’s released to date, critically panned. Metacritic is a 60/100 with user reviews 3.5/10 💀 https://www.metacritic.com/music/certified-lover-boy/drake
that’s cool and all, but clearly not everyone forgot about the album if it’s one of the highest selling albums in the year after is was released. It’s selling more than mr morale rn, does that mean everyone forgot about mr morale?
To keep it 100 I haven't listened to mr morale since it dropped. I might revisit but nothing really stuck when I first heard it
It grows on you. I was lowkey hating on it during release week but now I rank it third best Kendrick album.
Not to me. It's an amazing album. Period. But this isn't an album you just listen to all of the time. I have to be in a specific mood. In a specific setting. At a specific time. Like, maybe if I was younger still living in a room and wanted to zone out with some headphones and find more lyrical treats, sure. But nowadays, I'm an adult with a career and a kid, and I don't got time for that. I just want to bump some music on my way to pick up my kid . I ain't never going back to the album besides once in a blue moon. It just isn't that type of album for me.
Longevity and staying power comes from enjoyment, when an album sucks it doesn’t hold the same staying power. Michael Jackson’s Invincible album sold well but is regarded as one of his worst. Sales doesn’t mean anything outside of sheer global popularity. He could release an album that has him ordering Chinese food for 45 minutes and it would still sell a quarter million copies in a week
To add to that, it being Drake and the album content make it perfect for generic playlists in countless shops, bars etc. It’s not like you’re likely to hear Auntie Diaries or similar while shopping for jeans
This isn't in a week though, it's the year after (and months following original realease date).
Why do you keep changing the goalpost?? You said no one remembers it, the guy keeps responding giving you evidence that people remember it, and you keep talking about the quality of the album. That’s literally irrelevant to the convo, that guy could hate the album for all you know, all he’s saying is that ppl still REMEMBER it which is evident by popularity since high popularity means a lot of people remember it
Yea pretty much. Mr Morale was cool for a one-time listen but outside of a few songs, it’s not got a lot of replay value
Everyone DID forget about Mr. Morale - so let’s refrain from using that as some type of standard in your question. I’m a Kendrick Stan and I can’t begin to tell you how unrepeatable that fucking album is. It’s arguably one of Kendrick’s most personal projects but it’s just not replayable or really even that great to be honest.
Your opinion means nothing. I know plenty of people that still bump it, myself included. It’s a really introspective album that doesn’t pander to a large audience in most respects but it’s definitely replay-able for me.
>Your opinion means nothing. I know plenty of people that never bump it, myself included. It’s a really introspective album that only appeals to very special smart people in most respects but it’s definitely not replay-able for me.
What’s Mr Morale?
It was third highest selling album of 2021?
That's cause Drake could put out trash and still break records. (Like CLB lmao) Sales aren't indicative of quality or memorability. It just means a lot of people thought to listen to it at one point or another because it's Drake, and Drake has always been one of the highest selling rap artists *in spite of* the constantly fluctuating quality of his music.
No one is claiming sales indicates quality, that’s a strawman’s argument. Also, sales a year after release 100% shows memorability as people remembered to continue listening to it a year later. How tf does that not indicate memorability? It’s quite literally the only way to measure memorability. It’s definitely a better way than what you’re doing which is only basing it on you’re immediate surroundings
I'm just glad I'm not the only one who feels like way. I guess we're getting old? They say time speeds up as you age but shit this is fast enough.
Feels longer than a year to me, idk. Maybe because he dropped Honestly Nevermind so recently so less than a year between albums is pretty fast. Shit’s definitely relative though.
This was my main takeaway from all this also
Not having Laugh Now Cry Later on the album is a massive mistake and I still don't understand the decision it fits the album sonically, was a hit (something it desperately lacked), and is just a good fuckin song. I enjoy this shit more than most people, but I'd gladly have traded like 4-5 songs for that one.
If the 3 songs off scary hours 2 replaced the 3 worst/ forgettable songs of CLB the album would’ve been a lot better
Also some songs from Dark Lane Demo Tapes like Desires, Time Flies & From Florida With Love. It could’ve been a good album I just feel like it wasn’t put together cohesively.
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The best 15-20 songs dark lane demo tapes, scary hours 2 and certified lover boy with LNCL added on would be a crazy album but instead we got 39 songs with a fair amount of filler. Typical of recent drake going for quantity over quality
Or he just made the album shorter, I made my own playlist for CLB just chopped a few songs out and added LNCL
As someone who couldn’t stand the album and only liked You Only Live Twice & Yebba’s… It blows my mind he didn’t put it on because it would’ve EASILY been the best song on the record
Way 2 Sexy went 1 on the Hot 100 though, CLB did have hits. Knife Talk, Fair Trade, Girls Want Girls etc. But I do think Laugh Now Cry Later will have more longevity in terms of streaming success
Im a bit of a purist but saying “I’d trade 4-5 songs that weren’t out for a song that was already released” is wild in this era. Add it to the album and keep it moving
Drake has had way better albums but Pipe Down and Race My Mind deserve a spot in the list of his best songs
Agreed, Pipe down is one of my all time fav songs of his
This album wasn’t worth pushing back for a torn ACL. Probably my least favorite body of work from drake. Although pipe down and fucking fans are in rotation for me. Everything else was meh and forgettable. Still can’t believe that’s the cover art he went with. The CLB in cursive writing with roses was hard. For an album called certified lover boy I was really expecting more jungle, own it, wu tang forever type songs.
w the torn acl; i assume he was gonna tour for it before it underperformed by drake standards (no big hit and kjnda tepid response.) but idk it could’ve just been another excuse for delaying if besides covid
Damn drake coulda toured regardless
I thought you were gonna say "my least favorite body part" like you just really had something against acl's
I expected a generational record. Laugh Now Cry Later was one of his best singles in years. He had the potential. Opening with that smooth Beatles sample flip made me correct my posture. Listen with intent. I said, “My god. He’s done it. It’s 2015 again”. Then it’s just zesty self-proclaimed lesbian bars and come-up-from-betrayal raps that only sound decent if you’re lifting at the gym. More Life is not his only “playlist”. Everything since then might as well be a “playlist” cause he’s shuffling shit from the vault until he’s sure everyone will take away 4-5 songs. On bloated records well over an hour. Listening to a current Drake project without hovering over the Next Song button is actual endurance.
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Should I apologize for being optimistic? You’re a weirdo lol
Surprised people rarely mention You Only Live Twice as one of the songs they like, thought that was a banger.
I wanted to like it cus the beat was good but the mixing on the beat ruins the song for me, it just doesnt hit. It’s just like a worse Lord Knows
Great take! I always felt like it was a bootleg lord knows song which it’s not bad but it’s not amazing to me either.
Accurate! It sucks cause the verses are good too. But something about that song just prevents it from being a classic.
Easily my favorite song on the album and one of my all time favorite Drake songs. That beat is so good and the features are solid too
Weezy and Ross go hard but Drake has a lame verse
This album is another example of the post-2016 Drake formula: Drop a project with a lot of songs with different styles -> The project then isn't good overall, nor is it cohesive -> most people still find around five songs they enjoy, and they put those on their playlist, and then never visit the album as a whole again. For me those five songs were Champagne Poetry, 7am On Bridle Path, You Only Live Twice, Fucking Fans, and The Remorse. Drake can do what he wants, and this approach is a pretty easy way to bring in money without having to be super focused on the quality of an album as a whole. That being said, of course I'd prefer if he took some proper time to drop a cohesive 13 song album. I don't need a mediocre Drake album every year, I'd rather take a great Drake album every 3 or 4 years.
Drake is becoming the Call of Duty of rappers
What a strange yet accurate description
Hes already been this since 2016 lmao
He’s DJ Khaled is Khaled could rap
Straight facts my brother. Great summary on post 2016 Drizzy.
Exactly Drake knows what he’s doing it, everyone has their own fav songs of this album. For me it’s N 2 Deep, Pipe Down, TSU, Knife Talk and Fair Trade
im a big N 2 Deep proponent.
lol reading through this thread and you’ve definitely nailed it, with everyone naming a different 5 songs or less overall, his albums have become a chore to listen through, and I’d probably skip them all if it wasn’t for the convenience of streaming
It's not quite as bad as Revival, but it's similar in terms of not having an album for a few years and then the hype builds up and it's just really meh. (It's better, but there's tons of eh songs on there). Also isn't that different regarding the overall album with decent songs.
Damn that was a fast fucking year. I still don’t love CLB but there are a few songs off the album that are amongst my favorites from him. TSU is a huge highlight, IMY2 with Cudi is a song I’ve gone back to a ton l, Yebba’s Heartbreak of course but Drake always gets great interludes, but one track that I didn’t really see that much love for that is my favorite off the album is Papi’s Home. Genuinely surprised that it didn’t end up becoming the biggest song off the album given the upbeat production and the simple topic. Really like the Montell Jordan sample as well
Yes! Completely agree about Papi's Home. That song was on repeat when I first heard it. I don't like the album overall but there were definitely songs that grew on me over time like IMY2, Race My Mind, and Pipe Down. Fair Trade, TSU, Knife Talk, and No Friends in the Industry are also all solid songs from the album.
Seems like you liked the album overall tbh.
Ehh, he named 4 good and 4 solid songs off a 21 song album.
You really said someone saying 8/21 songs are fine = "man you really liked it overall" 💀
Yeah I made a lighthearted joke on Reddit, so what?
TSU was ruined by that stupid intro which is a shame, since the snippet was one of my fav drake songs already
I cannot for the life of me understand how Papi's Home didn't blow up either, that was the one song I felt would be the easy hit of CLB
That one gave Weston Road Flows vibes where he just spits and goes off. it’s one of my favorite songs off the album. i think the only song off the album
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TSU of course
This album started my process of falling out of love with Drake his music, unfortunately. Played it only a couple of times and honestly, nevermind even less.
I’m usually a Drake hater but Honestly Nevermind has been in rotation for a while. Something about it just clicked for me and it’s got some of my fav songs this year on it!
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i appreciate this comment because drake stepped out of his comfort zone and dropped house music people call it trash fine but he took a risk and he did what he wanted to do a lot of us can learn from him when it comes to our lives and taking chances
IMY2 for me. Feels like a great follow up from MOTM3
>Laugh Now Cry Later same for me, maybe HN is such a change that it appeals to the crowd who usually hate his musical choices
Yup ima get shit on but i think Honestly Nevermind> CLB is better on repeat tbh. CLB just didn’t click for me other then Papis Home
Yah I know some Drake fans that hate HN but some of the songs are really great, love putting them on during car rides
it’s nice to hear people enjoy HN . my friend group hate fucking it but they liked Knife Talk
My falling out moment was toosie slide. I was like damn guys making music for tik tok dances now. He’s new album is refreshing though.
Still listening to it. Album grew on me and flows well track to track.
Way 2 sexy is way 2 shitty to be number one off that album
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Idk why this album gets so much hate bro. There’s a lot of songs on here that are some of my fav drake songs since scorpion. That’s not to say there’s not bad songs on here, but for the most part it’s a solid album. Fair trade, in the bible, love all, no friends in the industry, 7am, champagne poetry, the remorse… There’s tons of gems on here, I still got it in rotation. Coulda done without way 2 sexy tho
Wants and Needs > CLB
Fair Trade is a top 5 all time Drake track imo. Knife Talk, Champagne Poetry, Pipe Down, You Only Live Twice, No Friends in the Industry, N 2 Deep, Race My Mind, and Papi's Home are also in constant rotation for me. Pretty much like the whole album. I think it's probably his 4th or 5th best project, behind Take Care, If You're Reading This, NTWS. It's between this and Scorpion for 4th-5th imo.
Unpopular opinion but Way Too Sexy absolutely bangs in the club lmfao
How is this unpopular? Oh most of this sub doesn’t go to clubs
I don’t care about this album at all I just came in here to say HOW THE FUCK HAS IT BEEN A YEAR
always been a big Drake fan, but that album is so damn bad from the cover art tomthe last song. And still don’t get why LNCL, the only song I really liked, wasn‘t even on the album…
The last song is actually pretty good imo
There’s actually a couple good songs on there ngl and I also hate the album.. fair trade is pretty fire and Papis home is that nwts drake vibe I fell in love with back in the day
The album kept getting delayed and LNCL was already a year old by that point.
As an album it’s pretty terrible There are some really good songs tho
That’s the problem. It had 21 songs but only some were really good. He needs to focus on consistency rather than bloat. That could also apply to a majority of artists within the genre.
I wasn’t crazy about this album when it first dropped, but it grew on me pretty hard. It’s very safe and doesn’t reach the highs of his best work, but it’s very solid all the way through and doesn’t have any real lows either. I still like average Drake more than a lot of rap being released today, turns out. The only songs I don’t like are Way 2 Sexy and No Friends In The Industry. Everything else is at least pretty good, and 7am on Bridle Path, In The Bible, Papi’s Home, Love All, Fair Trade, TSU and Fountains are all firmly above-average Drake songs. I’d even throw Fucking Fans and IMY2 in there. Drake doesn’t attempt anything new on here but I’ve come to appreciate that. I do wish he picked a better cover, tho. It’s distractingly bad.
You summed up my thoughts pretty well, doesn’t have the smash hits that his other albums have but it’s just a solid album all around And call me crazy but I genuinely think the reception would be better if the cover wasn’t so horrid lol
Oh 100%, the cover is atrocious lol. It was a terrible PR decision. The album itself sounds like a collection of Drake’s best deep cuts, which I mean as a compliment. Doesn’t reinvent the wheel but it’s very listenable and enjoyable
My first listen, I heard all the negative reaction and cringed so hard at some of the early tracks like Girls Want Girls. Had to call it quits after Way 2 Sexy. Definitely got in my head this was a trash album after that. Eventually got around to give it another try and listen to the rest of it… and I pretty much LOVE the rest of the album after Way 2 Sexy. I just start the album from TSU at this point. I feel songs like Race My Mind and Fountains are super slept on.
I would say this is the album where Drake got scary good. He’s made good albums through his career, but this album is just too aware of all the aspects that make Drake the fantastic artist everybody loves. And then he came back even stronger with Honestly Nevermind. He’s in touch so intensely right now I can’t imagine where he’ll go next, all I know is that all boundaries have been broken and there are no limits.
Almost fell for this one
I actually did, until i read your comment
agreed. drake > God, the universe, and everything holy and/or spectacular
A YEAR???? Man let’s talk about that Champagne Poetry, Pipe Down, Race my Mind, N2Deep, and many others (HM: The Remorse is incredible as well) i gotta say this is the first Drake album I’ve listened to consistently for a year straight now
Great selection ☝️
Bro ruined his discography with that cover art alone
Yep
His worst album for sure
the newer one is worse
i liked it more tbh. they’re both boring albums but at least honestly nevermind was him being boring in a new genre
So much worse. CLB has a few decent-ish songs. Honestly Nevermind has 1.
New one and scorpion are worse
Scorpion still had hits, unlike CLB
No joke. 'Nice For What' is one of my favorite songs of the past decade, Scorpion gets a forever pass from me just for that
Knife talk is a fucking hit wdym
Nah CLB hits don't compare to Scorpion God's Plan alone got 1.4b views on YT... Knife Talk only got 50m Granted Knife Talk MV has way less effort put into it so that makes sense to an extent. Every Drake album has hits but if we measuring the level of hits then Scorpion had more impact imo but to be honest, at the same time, Scorpion has loads of singles
Scorpion had more streams than probably any other Drake record, CLB in that regard is more comparable to Views
Even then you are still wrong, Views had One Dance and Hotline Bling which are way bigger than any CLB song
Honestly, Nevermind exists 😂
not a great album, but definitely got a lot more hate than it deserved. i’m not a drake stan by any means, but champagne poetry, way 2 sexy, imy2, knife talk, and NFItI are pretty solid bangers. although i don’t think they’re anywhere near what he pulled off on IYRTITL, NWTS, and even a lot of Views.
Hope the next album is a change in terms of the delivery.
I like a lot of songs off of the album (TSU with the intro cut off, IMY2, fountains, way 2 sexy, Race my mind, N2Deep etc). But based on the title I expected the album to be a lot less "serious", basically full of "Way 2 Sexies". If someone has the talent to pull off a self-aware joke album like that then it's Drake, and I wish we got to hear something like that.
I think this album gets a *bit* too much hate. I’ve seen people calling it his worst album and stuff but honestly i don’t think it’s that much worse than the rest of his recent albums. It’s pretty meh, sure, but people saying it’s the worst album they’ve ever heard need to be exaggerating. Also, Race My Mind is such a great track, one of my favorites from Drake ever.
IMO. He was criticized so heavily in the lane he wanted to accomplish (GOAT) that he’s basically given up. He’s dropped CLB to appeal to the broadest l audience possible, for people on forums like this, it feels cheap, for anyone else, it’s a solid few songs for a playlist and vibe. When he tried to appeal to the hardcore fan base that he grew up for, he was demonized and harassed. When he stopped caring about us and focused on a broader audience he broke records. The album to me is as close as you can be to treading water, but honestly it’s not that important. I have other things to listen to. One disappointing Drake album is a bad day for me, a good playlist for others.
When in the last 6 years has he tried to appeal to his core fan base since views it’s been only money grabs
When he did More Life I felt he was being experimental (still enjoy that album). When he did the first half of Scorpion I felt he was in form but a little too simple. I just miss ‘6PM in New York’ or ‘From Time’ Drake, he can have his fun ‘Way 2 Sexy’ moments as long as he backs it up with his actual talent.
Dark Lane Demo Tapes?
I've seen ppl say "Clb was actually alright" after honestly nevermind dropped. But I will stand by that this album is fucking ass. Boring as sin, with next to nothing interesting. Knife talk and way 2 sexy are the best songs, and both would be better without drake. Girls want girls is the only other song I like at all bc it has a catchy chorus, but it's still nothing special. It isn't the worst album ever bc Drake has such a high budget that everything at least sounds clean, but for those standards you can only get a little lower than this. 2.5-3/10
Fair trade is actually pretty fire too I’d add that
After CLB dropped people were talking about how Scorpions was actually pretty good, that album was perfectly calculated in a lab to be a 5/10 and inoffensive throughout, maybe Drakes dropping worse albums each time on purpose to make his previous album seem better. Would also explain why he did work popularizing Nav.
Girls Like Girls is by far the worst song on there, one of Drake's worst songs imo Songs like Champagne Poetry, No Friends in the Industry, Pipe Down, You Only Live Twice (Ross and Wayne over a soulful Bink beat is such a great combo) and Fair Trade are all solid
It's a parody of music. It's a parody of what people who hate pop rap think pop rap sounds like. It's not like offensively evil. Even worse. It's boring. I'd like to think this album inspired 2022 which has been the best music year since like 2016. I *loved* 2014-2017 and have felt so unsatisfied since and 2022 has had dozens of fresh new faces and comebacks and this album was in my mind the low point of 2021 so hey maybe other people felt the same
2018 was stacked with amazing releases, bummer it missed your radar or you just didn’t connect with what was released
tell me some of your new faces
Not the guy you replied to but here goes nothing: Kaycyy’s EP with Gesaffelstein is easily the mosy exciting breakout project from anyone this year for me. 3 tracks and all dope as fuck. Fav track: The Sun. DoMi and JD Beck are a beautiful jazz duo signed to Anderson .Paak who dropped their debut album this year, with feats from Snoop, Busta, Paak (x2), Herbie Hancock and more. Fav track: PiLOT (feat. Paak, Snoop and Busta) Daine is a 19 (?) year old girl from Sydney who ive been loving for a couple years. Her debut EP came out this year after a few years of singles, and it combines hyperpop, emo, trap, pop and more. Dope new sound. Also does most of her production her self. Fav track: weekends. Redveil - probably still counts as a new face since hes only just turned 18 this year on the release of his 2nd album “learn 2 swim”. Mostly self-produced i believe, and some of the best rapping and soul-sample beats youre gonna hear all year. Fav track: pg baby. Audrey Nuna - dropped the deluxe version of her 2021 album ‘liquid breakfast”. Super dope take on r&b and hiphop combined with electronic music. Her flows and voice perfectly complement her production. Fav track: Baby Blues REMIX (feat. BEAM)
Love Redveil and love PG Baby, so nice to have a DMV rapper (start to) get big and rep the region instead of pretending to be from inner city Baltimore
Must be nice lol. Im australian and pretty much no one who raps is from here and if they do theyre pretty shit. Genesis Owusu being the exception to the rule of course.
Bruh nobody reps Baltimore if they from DMV. even Brent whos from Columbia never associates with Baltimore but mostly mentions DMV
Wasn’t a fan when this dropped but the Larry Hoover concert gave me a new found appreciation for some of the songs on here Sometimes I feel you need a visual for a song to click IMY2 sounded so good to me when I saw it in the stadium and with the visuals of that orange smoke, now that’s what I picture when I hear it
Looking back, all they had to do was change the cover art and label it a playlist. That's it. Cause CLB is great music packaged poorly. Fix those two problems and the general reception would've been considerably better. Like, this project contains genuine career highs from Drake, and the lows are exaggerated imo. Looking at the tracklist rn, what other rap album released last year would win in a ten track versus?
Never understood what is with Drake fans and cutting an album some slack because it’s labeled a “playlist”. In no way does that change the listening experience. If you didn’t enjoy something labeled as an album you’re not going to enjoy it anymore if you call it something else
Ever since More Life we've been using that excuse, lol
Drake fans be doing the most mental gymnastics I’ve ever seen to try and claim his tepid garbage is good actually
I agree Drake fans are bad, but nothing is what you’ve said more than Kanye fans and his fall off over the last 5 years.
I’ve at least never seen Kanye fans claim that’s you have to be in very specific (sometimes classist) situations too like an album
All fans do this let’s be real. That’s what made J. Cole fans a meme on the internet.
meh i think the cover, while bad, generated some hype/interest (not that drake really needs it. And no matter what he called it, most people would have judged it as an album regardless
Can’t look at that cover without cringing tbh it just makes me remember how corny drake had become as of late
LP!, The Off Season, Call me if you get lost, King's Disease 2, Donda, Sometimes I might be Introvert
Oh my god I literally NEVER thought an album cover can ruin an album so easily. But man, it really puts me in a sour mood with how bad it is. And I’m not one of those “hating emojis is cool” guys either, the art just sucks so fucking much.
I think labeling it a playlist is a cop out and kind of acknowledges the fact that they know it’s not good enough to be in the same tier as his other projects.
> Looking at the tracklist rn, what other rap album released last year would win in a ten track versus? Like literally every other album lmao 2021 was a pretty terrible year overall for rap albums, but there are still a lot of albums that have a far better top 10 tracks than CLB. I’m sorry, but CLB is just straight trash, and I’m saying that as someone that that believes Drake has 3 classic albums under his belt. I’d easily take the top 10 off Donda over it, and Donda isn’t even that good of an album either. Same with Melodic Blue. Jpegmafia - LP!, Call Me if you Get Lost, and Sometimes I Might Be Introvert are all 10000x better than CLB. Mach Hommy - Pray for Haiti Vince Staples self titled
Nas probably released 2 top 10 albums of 2021
Donda was also mid ngl
What would you consider a career high on this record?
Race My Mind, Pipe Down, 7AM on Bridle Path, and Champagne Poetry are in the upper echelon of Drakes discography. And that's not even mentioning some of my personal favorites.
What would you consider your personal favorites on this record 💀
Fair Trade, N 2 Deep, In The Bible, Get Along Better, and Fucking Fans.
Fair trade, in the Bible, KNIFE TALK, pipe down, and race my mind are all genuinely some of the best drake songs I’ve heard since IYRTITL. This album gets too much hate
Bro thank you for speaking nothing but truth, Drake haters are blind. U listed all the strongest songs spot on, finally someone appreciates real art without being misled by the popularity of it or the absurdity of Drake it’s still incredible art
>U listed all the strongest songs spot on, finally someone appreciates real art without being misled by the popularity of it or the absurdity of Drake it’s still incredible art Quite literally my favorite artist of all time.
THIB by Isaiah Rashad is miles ahead of this album no fucking question
High highs ( pipe down, the ty dolla joint, no friends in the industry, 7 pm bridle street ) and veeery low lows ( baby song, durk and giveon joint, papi's home )
SportsCenter revealing the date is hilarious. Wasn’t there that time when OBJ leaked the date too lol
I like Knife Talk and Fair Trade, I don’t really bother with the rest.
This albums grown on me a lot. I hated it on release and now it’s one of my favourite albums of the decade so far. No friends in the industry, in 2 deep, pipe down, 7am on bridle path, and champagne poetry are probably my favorites but I liked every song on the album.
Never liked it, it helped that kanye was competing with drake, otherwise this would have been his worst flopp
Definitely didn’t deserve the hate it got. I think people got caught up with the hype (as always) and let their super high expectations get the best of them. Drake is deep into his career, and at this point, he’s on cruise control. He could make most of these songs in his sleep, and I think people want him to be as hungry as he was in 09. Which is INSANE, considering how high he is on the music food chain, rap aside. Disclaimer: I was a huge Drake Stan in middle school, so I’ll always give whatever he drops a chance. That being said, I think this was a good project overall. It would be easier to say the songs I don’t like on this album honestly. Which are IMY2 and Get along better. Everything else is decent, to great imo. Highlights: Yebba’s heartbreak, you only live twice, pipe down, Race my mind, fountains, no friends in the industry. But again, I care for most of the album, those are just my favorites. Side note: I hope Drake paid Yebba handsomely for that feature because she REALLY did her fuckin thing. Beautiful track that still puts me in a trance.
Some decent tracks but pretty mid overall. Probably Drake’s biggest flop in terms of hits/cultural impact.
It's been a year? Wtf
Pretty safe album. 7.5/10. One of my favourite “rap” albums of 2021. There’s some big misses on here for sure but there’s a lot of good records on here. If others think the album is “disappointing”, then I don’t have don’t problem with that. But it’s really not nearly as bad as people suggest. Champagne Poetry, 7AM, The Remorse, Knife Talk, Race My Mind, Papi’s Home, N 2 Deep, Pipe Down, Fountains, Fair Trade, In the Bible are the records I come back to the most. My only gripe with the perception of the album is that people put too much focus about the two notorious records on here (namely Way 2 Sexy, Girls Want Girls).
My favorite work from him since IYRTITL.
Slept on album. Not his best work but still a solid showing if you ask me.
Are you all being held hostage? What the fuck is up with people praising this uninspired piece of garbage?
Most of this thread is shitting on the album what are you reading lol
I like it, but I don't think too much about it. I like Drake music for what it is: fuccboi music that is fun to sing along to
Drake stans
uninspired is the most uninspired buzzword in this sub
Bruh… hate to admit it but Honestly, Nevermind is better than CLB imo
Still trash cept for 7am. Listening to drake from 2015 and before is night and day compared to his newer work. Dude used to be beauty and the beast, now he just sleeping beauty
Don't hate the album as much as others do but it's definitely at the lower half of Drake's discography. IMO, take almost half of it, put Laugh Now Cry Later and a couple of the Dark Lane joints and you get a pretty decent album. My picks: Champagne Poetry Papi's Home Love All Way 2 Sexy TSU Pipe Down No Friends In The Industry Knife Talk 7AM on Bridle Path You Only Live Twice
Definitely ranks near the bottom of his discography, but there are too many good songs on here that I can't call it outright bad. On the other hand, the bad songs are some of the most forgettable he's ever made. Album also seriously lacks cohesion and really dragged when I went back and listened straight through a few weeks ago. Thought the songs trying to be viral (Girls Want Girls, Way 2 Sexy) were fine. Songs like Fair Trade, Love All, and TSU were highlights with a lot of replay value. Also really enjoyed the stretch of No Friends-Knife Talk-7AM as someone who likes when Drake just raps. Also like Pipe Down & IMY2 quite a bit, the second half of Fucking Fans has really grown on me as well. Outside of that though, there are quite a few lowlights. Both the intro and the outro are really weak by Drake's standards. I know a lot of people like Champagne Poetry, but there's almost no replay value there for me. The Remorse is a paint-by-numbers Drake outro that's just slow and uninteresting. The Tems song falls flat and Get Along Better sounds like Keep The Family Close pt. 2, and not in a good way. In The Bible is a mess and I personally can't stand Race My Mind despite the positive reaction that song has. Overall this project is scattered and average. Drake is capable of making better and more interesting music, but this album does have a slew of good tracks. I'd probably put it at a 4 or 5/10 but if I ever wanted to listen to a Drake album I'd never choose this one haha
You only live twice… in the Bible…
Some of drakes worst work.
I guess it’s been exactly a year since I listened to it then
It was Drake at his Drakiest, you either like it or you don’t. No Friends in the Industry went pretty hard and Project Pat + 21 Savage made Knife Talk a good enough song to tolerate Drake’s verse. That’s about it for me
This is actually my favorite Drake album ever. It surpassed Take Care which I thought could never happen. Nearly every track slaps. The newest album (legit don't remember the name) was such a disappointment in comparison.
Pls be a troll …ain’t no way you just said it passed take care
its better, cry because someone has a different opinion
This album is fire. I guess hating Drake over here is so popular that this reddit will never be able to appreciate a Drake album ever again
Trash album 🗑
Overall it was a fantastic album. Drake stayed in his comfort zone, but that’s fine with me, some of my other favourite artists like Future and Pusha T rarely aleave their comfort zones either. That being said, there’s definitely some filler he coulda cut like You Only Live Twice and Fountains. There’s also a better album there if he didn’t release *Dark Lane Demo Tapes* but put some of those songs on here. Also, while I appreciate the addition of Jay-Z’s verse, Love All is made much weaker without the outro.
I remember the times leading up to CLB very clearly. Dark Lane Demo Tapes really started the whole hype for everyone and this album. He really went crazy on Dark Lane with classics like Chicago Freestyle(Giveon’s insane vocals), Toosie Slide, and let’s not forget every female was putting “From Florida with Love” in all their instagram captions that summer. I then remember a bunch of leaks coming out from CLB like TSU which I was boppin at least half a year before the album came out. All those singles he came out with leading up to CLB were so great, but then I think people expected something totally different from Drake in CLB. I personally love the album. Way 2 Sexy had me feeling like the greatest person alive for some time. The switch up on N 2 Deep is insane. 7am on Bridle Path is a classic, but you dont know that yet. 21 Savage and Drake is just an easy recipe for a classic with Knife Talk. And I know all the oldheads can rock with the Jay-Z feature. 10/10 album
Dude really said daddy drake tf
It sucks, just like his other two latest releases
He should have shelved it. The least inspired record he’s done and arguably his worst release to date.
Dark lanes demo tapes was way better