Reviewing Drake’s Certified Lover Boy

What's The Headline

The battle between Kanye West and Drake has reached a fever pitch, with the release of Drake's Certified Lover Boy less than a week after Kanye's Donda reached DSPs. On this week's episode of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline, we review Drake's CLB and discuss why he may never have a classic album [Note: this episode was recorded prior to the news of Michael K. Williams' passing.

0:00 Intro
0:20 Several of Hip-Hop’s super powers—Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Drake and Andre 3000—have been active in the past few weeks
0:56 Kendrick Lamar’s first verse of 2021 was packed with revelations 3:44 Baby Keem’s “family ties” with Kendrick Lamar is the best Hip-Hop video of 2021 so far
6:50 Kendrick Lamar is waving the pgLang flag now
9:00 Kendrick Lamar has declared himself the GOAT MC
10:30 Releasing “family ties” the day when Kanye West’s Donda was supposed to drop was a statement
12:50 Our first impressions of Kanye West’s Donda album
17:30 Should Kanye West’s Donda and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy be considered double albums
19:00 Why both Drake and Kanye released such long albums
24:00 The ongoing war between Kanye West and Drake has escalated in the last few weeks
30:28 The history of Drake and Kanye West’s beef
36:00 Reviewing Drake’s Certified Lover Boy
38:50 Drake has been using the same formula for his last few albums
40:10 Why Drake does not have a classic album
45:20 How Drake could make a series of classic albums
47:50 Drake disses Kanye West throughout Certified Lover Boy
59:00 Drake’s music has a recurring theme of distrusting people in the music industry
1:04:20 The complicated relationship between JAY-Z and Drake
1:08:00 Evaluating JAY-Z’s 2021 guest verses
1:14:50 Drake and Rick Ross reunite on You Only Live Twice, but Lil Wayne steals the show
1:19:40 How Kanye West influenced Drake’s style
1:21:00 Drake teams up with Kid Cudi; Is this another dig at Kanye
1:23:10 Melodic Rap is the most prominent genre on Drake’s Certified Lover Boy
1:28:00 Drake uses his albums to showcase relatively unknown artists
1:29:00 Drake often ends his albums with autobiographical records
1:31:45 Does Drake care about critical acclaim and making a classic album
1:36:13 Where Drake’s Certified Lover Boy ranks in his catalog
1:39:10 Which album is better, Certified Lover Boy or Donda
1:41:48 Why Kanye West does not rap as much anymore on his albums
1:43:14 AFH rates Certified Lover Boy and Donda on a scale of 1 to 10
1:44:22 Andre 3000 is unknowingly dragged into the beef between Drake and Kanye West
1:53:10 Does this beef benefit either Drake or Kanye West
1:55:00 New music of the week from Gorilla Nems, J-Tek, Saigon & Benny The Butcher, Kota The Friend, Blackalicious' Gift Of Gab and more.