Drake’s heavily anticipated next studio album, Certified Lover Boy, will be released this coming January, according to a video posted on his Instagram.
Fittingly, the announcement comes on Drake’s 34th birthday, as October’s very own recreates some of his most iconic album covers like Take Care, Nothing Was The Same, and Dark Lane Demo Tapes in the teaser above. He even pays subtle homage to the covers of his first two mixtapes Comeback Season and So Far Gone at the beginning, with the young boy reaching for fall leaves falling from the sky. The ominous promo video closes with a shot of “CLB” scribed on the top of Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall, with “January 2021” flashing at the end.
Drizzy initially announced that his “sixth studio album” would be dropping in the summer of 2020 after he released his collection of loosies and new tracks, Dark Lane Demo Tapes back in April.
Despite the album not arriving this summer, Drizzy did hold fans down by dropping the lead single from Certified Lover Boy with his Lil Durk assisted track “Laugh Now, Cry Later.”
With the accompanying music video shot at the Nike Headquarters, the earworm track gave fans a solid teaser for what they can expect from the album.
Fast forward to just over two months later and we now have a release date for what might be one of Drake’s most anticipated projects yet.
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