Certified Lover Boy

On Certified Lover Boy, Drake delivers a comfortable, almost easy-listening experience that’s pretty much exactly what fans expected. Never one to switch up his blueprint for success, he sticks mainly to rapping about women, his own greatness and the discontent shadowing his success. “My heart feel vacant and lonely,” he confesses on “Champagne Poetry.” On “Fair Trade,” he considers “losin’ friends and findin’ peace” to be a reasonable exchange. As an aside on “IMY2,” he says, “all these people that love you don’t know you.” Here’s a 34-year-old MC who sounds like he could use some meditation (or therapy, which he mentions elsewhere on CLB).