

On March 5, 2021, Drake dropped Scary Hours 2, a sequel EP to 2018’s Scary Hours. However, he still confirmed that the album would still be released later down the year. On January 20, 2021, after fans waited nearly a whole month with no album in sight, Drake said the album “won’t be dropping in January” via Instagram as he noted he was focusing on recovering from a knee injury he suffered back in October 2020. The trailer saw Drake recreating the covers of his past LPs, which includes February 2009’s So Far Gone, November 2011’s Take Care, September 2013’s Nothing Was the Same and May 2020’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes. On October 24, 2020, his 34th birthday, Drake announced that the album would be released in January 2021 via the album’s trailer, therefore voiding his claims that the album would be released in summer 2020. The day before, he announced that the album would be released during the summer of 2020.Īlongside the release of the song “Laugh Now Cry Later,” which features Lil Durk, Drake announced the title of the album via Instagram. On May 1, 2020, Drake dropped his fifth solo mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes. I’ma go back to the crib and try to finish this album up so we can turn up in 2020. On December 10, 2019, Drake made a guest appearance at DaBaby’s concert in Toronto, where he revealed that he was working on the album: These rumors were later proved to be inaccurate. In September 2019, multiple publications reported that Drake had finished his album, claiming that the album was set to release in November 2019. In June 2019, Drake once again teased his progress on the album via Instagram, where the caption read: On April 9, 2019, Drake first announced that he was working on a new album during the London stop on his Assassination Vacation Tour.

One of his most highly anticipated releases in his career, Certified Lover Boy is Drake’s sixth studio album and the follow-up to his fifth studio album, Scorpion, which was released on June 29, 2018.
