What is clb drake?
Certified Lover Boy is finally released after quite a long wait, indeed. One year after last hit “Laugh Now, Cry Nater”, Drake eventually unveiled his anticipated album, with a particular taste for melancholia and introspection.
Many of his fans have been expecting a fiery 15-track, the memorable type of album, worthy of his accolade of Artist of the Decade. However, some of them confess their disappointment, describing a lukewarm body of work.
Harsh judgement, probably not quite careful enough to his true intention for this album. Drake’s actual message behind “Certified Lover Boy“, sounds more like an intimate letter (Poetic Justice), written with weepy eyes and hidden in a dirty pocket of a cold and empty heart.
The industry and the success of his career let him jaded and grey. The only times when he regroups are with his family, mostly his son, whom he never spoke about before the beef with Pusha T.
Nothing more to hide not to prove, his failures are certified, as well as his joys:
The last time Drake presented an album as a letter, it was for If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late : kind of a break-up message. Sentimental break, a split with fake friends in the industry, a breakup with himself and his own image(Know Yourself).
Perhaps he’ll come back with an piping-hoy new album, but now is the time for Drizzy to Pipe Down, and express one last time his feelings. Far from behing emotionless, our Boy is in his feels again, as Snoh Aalegra would sing.
With Certified Lover Boy, Drake actually caricatures his self-image of notorious Play Boy. The narrative goes indeed way deeper, searching for a new side of himself to explore.
Throughout the 15 tunes, half of them indicate that our play boy sounds like a Batman than a Bruce Wayne.
Champagne Poetry sums up the whole energy of the album writing, and echoes with A$AP Rocky’s song “Rich Nigga Problems“ de ASAP Rocky, the actual Rihanna’s certified lover boy:
“Rich Nigga Problem” recalls the hurt of being generous around people who project you only Fake Love.
But such generosity not appreciated as it should be, faces the the bad things, hypocrisis, and waste of energy. Which explains the messages in the following songs: “Energy”, “God’s Plan”, “Fake Love”, and today “No Friends in The Industry“.
These situations touch a man’s mental and sensitiveness. With elegance and the class of an urban poet, Drake retreats so he can find himself again. Such resolution give birth to songs like Do Not Disturb, Emotionless, and lastily Champagne Poetry and The Remorse.
At last, let’s admit how good it feels to hear a male rapper confess his weaknesses, remorses, shortcomings, pains… and just let it flow. Let them tears drop. No matter the hostility of toxic masculinity in Hip-Hop. A message conveyed with irony and self-depreciation in the Laugh Now Cry Later clip.
