When is drakes new album

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McVey, K. Barua, L. Williams Jr, N. Cadastre, N. Shebib, N. Wilburn, S. Moamer Hafez, D. Kastal, L. He raps half-truths. Everything on the album is constructed to strengthen his position as a one-man major label. Drake is certainly the chart front-runner, but it feels as if maintaining that lead is weighing on him, lyrically and sonically. Rarely has standing atop the podium sounded so undesirable.

Everyone outside his echo chamber is painted as treacherous, disloyal, a potential threat, or a potential leech, and the music, in turn, is paranoid, disengaged, and unfriendly. His numbed, singsong formula remains the same, but the hooks and stanzas are encumbered by an increasingly isolated and obstinate perspective.

His songs avoided lethargy through the pull of his rapping and the sheer force of his pettiness. This delay provided the perfect environment to fan the flames of the rumored beef between Drake and Kanye West, whose long-anticipated and polarizing album Donda dropped on Aug. Where Certified Lover Boy falls short, however, is in showing any evolution, thematic or emotional, since Drake released his first mixtape nearly 15 years ago.

Drake has always been a mastermind of controlling the narrative, using everything from social media to personal drama in his life to curate his image. From his savvy, Twitter-aided deployment of a beef with Meek Mill to promote new music to his repeated self-deprecation about his vulnerabilities, reinforced by his unrequited love for Rihanna, he might come off as corny or sentimental, but he does so on his terms.

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Drake, a longtime fan of using emojis to promote his music , turned to a high art interpretation of the pregnant lady emoji for his latest cover art.

The cover, ripe for Internet clowning, quickly became a meme and a point of derision for many fans.