Drake’s Certified Lover Boy finally arrived on Friday (September 3) and the hot takes from both sides of the coin were flying across social media within minutes of its release.
Rappers and a bunch of Drizzy’s Hip Hop compatriots were interested in hearing what Drake had to say with his latest offering, as Freddie Gibbs, Lil Durk, Timbaland, Lupe Fiasco, Sonny Digital, Stalley, Reason, HipHopDX Rising Star DDG and more offered up opinions on The Boy’s sixth studio effort.
“Drake shit go hard. Duh,” Gangsta Gibbs commented like it was another day at the office for Drake.
Even Tom Brady got in on the fun by joking he wasn’t on CLB with one of the many billboards Drizzy put up in various cities nationwide to reveal features on the project.
“Feel kind of left out to be honest Congrats bro! @Drake,” the Super Bowl-winning quarterback wrote.
On the heels of calling himself Chicago’s JAY-Z, Lil Durk compared his current feature run to that of “prime Lil Wayne,” which we take to be around Tha Carter III era in 2007 to 2008.
Durk also has the numbers to back up his claims, since he’s notched the most Billboard Hot 100 entries of any artist this year so far with 35.
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Certified Lover Boy boasts 20 tracks and is littered with star-studded features from the likes of JAY-Z, Future, Young Thug, 21 Savage, Travis Scott, Lil Baby, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and more.
Find more of the reactions to Drake’s CLB from around the rap-sphere below.
No wonder why all the artists praisin CLB release trash music: because they have bad taste in the first place! CLB sounds like a silent fart after eating a burrito.
I thought y’all “real hip-hop heads” worshipped Gibbs and Lupe…???
I cant believe Gibbs and Lupe likes CLB. Only 2 songs above average on the whole project.
Never liked conscious rappers backpack wearin motherfuckers writing their rhymes at the library with their political bs. FOH!
Umm, Freddie Gibbs isn’t a conscious political rapper, lol.
???? if this shit is fire than wtf is king’s disease 2 Js CLB and donda sounds horribly wrong
Banks got album of the year still
What a horrible album. This shut is worse than that scorpion bullshit. I see he has his click farms hard at work. They must have dropped 100 mil on generating that many bullshit clicks. LOL. Dude will have to do 100+ shows to recoup this garbage. I mean, he supposedly sold more albums than the Beatles, but is worth only double what TI is. Strange right? LOL
Terrible album what the hell. He is so wack
Shit is worse than donda nas and westside gunn new shit shits all over both these albums.again this shit is worse than donda!!
Westside Gunn? LOL!
Oh look, “real hip hop” artists Freddie Gibbs and Lupe Fiasco like Drake’s music. See? It’s okay to enjoy Drake songs, guys. Still waiting in that Benny the Butcher collab to drop.
Herbo you on fire bro