Certified Lover Boy Trivia | 55 facts about the new Drake album

“Certified Lover Boy” is the sixth studio album by Canadian rapper Drake. It was released on September 3.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the new album.

1. Certified Lover Boy is the sixth studio album by Canadian rapper Drake
2. It was released on September 3, 2021, through OVO Sound and Republic Records
3. The album was initially set to be released in January 2021
4. It was delayed
5. It features guest appearances by Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Giveon, Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Future, Young Thug, Yebba, 21 Savage, Project Pat, Tems, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and Kid Cudi
6. Thematically, Drake explained that Certified Lover Boy is “a combination of toxic masculinity and acceptance of truth which is inevitably heartbreaking”
7. In April 2019, Drake announced at a concert that he had started to work on a new album
8. In June 2019, he teased the album via Instagram, where he captioned a post with “Album mode”
9. On December 10, Drake made a guest appearance at DaBaby’s concert in Toronto, where he revealed that he was working on the album
10. In March, on Instagram Live, Drake confirmed a finalized version of “Not Around”, a leaked song later retitled to “TSU”, would feature on Certified Lover Boy
11. That same month, frequent collaborator Boi-1da previewed two snippets of songs with Drake during a Verzuz with Hit-Boy
12. The two snippets were dubbed “I Did” and another snippet with Roddy Ricch was dubbed “In the Cut”
13. Drake officially announced his sixth studio album just hours before the release of Dark Lane Demo Tapes, and scheduled for release in late 2020
14. Drake later previewed two new songs, one an unreleased track titled “Lie to Me” and the other a demo version of his 2020 DJ Khaled collaboration “Greece”, on Instagram Live
15. On July 29, 2020, Drake’s recording engineer Noel Cadastre revealed the album was “90% done”
16. On August 14, 2020, Drake announced the title of the album
17. In October, Drake announced that the album would be released in January 2021
18. It was postponed once again due to Drake suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury
19. Certified Lover Boy was dedicated to the late models Nadia Ntuli and Miss Mercedes Morr
20. Ntuli, who was a close friend of Drake’s, was killed in a motor vehicle accident in Dubai in early 2021
21. Morr, born Janae Gagnier, was found dead in her Texas apartment on August 29, 2021
22. She was believed to be the victim of a murder-suicide
23. On May 1, 2020, Drake surprise-released his mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes, which was announced mere hours before its release
24. In the mixtape announcement shared on Instagram, Drake revealed that his sixth studio album, then untitled, would be released sometime in the third quarter of 2020
25. Although the album was not released that summer, the non-album single “Laugh Now Cry Later” featuring Lil Durk was released in August
26. On October 24, a teaser trailer for the album was released, revealing that the album was to be released in January 2021
27. American football player Odell Beckham Jr. later said it would be released on January 1, 2021, which later went unreleased
28. The teaser referenced covers of Drake’s previous albums and mixtapes: So Far Gone (2009), Take Care (2011), Nothing Was the Same (2013) and Dark Lane Demo Tapes (2020)
29. Drake announced in January 2021 that the album would no longer be released that month, due to a leg injury he sustained which required surgery
30. On March 5, 2021, Drake released an extended play titled Scary Hours 2, a sequel to the 2018 EP, to generate further anticipation for the upcoming album
31. The EP included three songs, and includes guest appearances from Lil Baby and Rick Ross
32. The music video for the EP’s lead single, “What’s Next”, premiered on the same day
33. All three songs from the EP respectively debuted at number one, two and three on the Billboard Hot 100
34. In April, Drake appeared on the YSL Records song “Solid” with Gunna and Young Thug
35. The song was originally intended for Certified Lover Boy, but because the album was postponed, Drake gave the song to Gunna
36. On August 27, the album’s release date of September 3 was revealed during a teaser aired on ESPN’s SportsCenter
37. Drake later confirmed the date and revealing the album artwork on August 30
38. That same day, billboards featuring lyrics from the album were plastered around Drake’s hometown of Toronto
39. On September 1, two days before the album’s release, billboards were placed throughout the United States, Canada, and Nigeria revealing the album’s featured artists according to their hometown
40. An Atlanta billboard announced 21 Savage, Future, Lil Baby, and Young Thug, a Chicago billboard announced Lil Durk
41. A New York City billboard announced “the GOAT”, which was assumed, and later confirmed, to be Jay-Z
42. A Memphis billboard announced Yebba and Project Pat, while Tems was announced on a Lagos billboard
43. Both Giveon and Ty Dolla Sign were announced on a California billboard
44. As the reveal continued, a Cleveland billboard announced Kid Cudi
45. A Miami billboard announced Rick Ross, cited as “the biggest boss”
46. A Houston billboard announced Travis Scott, referred to as “the hometown hero”
47. And another Toronto billboard announced Lil Wayne, who Drake coined as the “best rapper alive”
48. The album’s artwork features twelve emojis of pregnant women in varying clothing colours, hair colors and skin tones
49. It was designed by English artist Damien Hirst
50. The artwork was met with a negative reception from fans and critics alike, who called the image “ugly”, “lazy”, and “ridiculous”
51. Certified Lover Boy was met with mixed reviews from critics
52. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 55
53. Based on seven reviews
54. Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 4.8 out of 10
55. Based on their assessment of the critical consensus