When did certified lover boy come out

After multiple delays, Drake confirmed on Monday (August 30) that he will finally be dropping his new studio album, Certified Lover Boy, this Friday. Get ready.

On Instagram, Drake posted an image of multiple pregnant-mother emojis in various skin tones and shirt colors. The image is set to be the official album cover, and he captioned the post, in all caps, “Certified Lover Boy September 3.”

Last week, a cryptic video clip that teased the release date for the highly anticipated album was aired by SportsCenter on ESPN. The clip showed some sports highlights and then was interrupted by glitching footage and warped audio of someone holding a sign that read, “CLB September 3.”

In a response to the so-called interruption, SportsCenter tweeted: “We want to apologize for any interruptions viewers might have experienced during SportsCenter this morning. We had some technical difficulties that have since been resolved.”

The release of Certified Lover Boy went through some bumps and difficulties. Drake first announced in May 2020 that he was working on a new studio album following the surprise-release of his Dark Lane Demo Tapes. He stated the album would be released in the summer of that year. This did not happen, but Drake dropped a lead single “Laugh Now Cry Later,” featuring Lil Durk, in August. The track charted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Then on October 24, he posted a teaser trailer with a new January 2021 date for Certified Lover Boy’s release. Come January, Drake then revealed on his Instagram story that the album’s release would be delayed while he recovered from a knee surgery that he underwent last year.

In March, Drake released a new EP Scary Hours 2, a sequel to the 2018 EP, bringing more excitement for the album. All three songs from the EP debuted in the top 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, with lead single “What’s Next” hitting No. 1 on the chart.

Recently this past summer, Drake has been involved in a couple of collaborations. In July, he was featured in Brent Faiyaz’s “Wasting Time” and Canadian rapper Smiley’s “Over the Top.”

Certified Lover Boy will be Drake’s sixth studio album and is set to be released on September 3. It will follow Drake’s 2018 album Scorpion, which debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200. All seven singles of the album charted in the top 20 on the Hot 100 chart, and three peaked at No. 1: "God's Plan,” "Nice for What,” and "In My Feelings.” As a result of its major success, Scorpion became Drake’s second Top Billboard 200 album of his career at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards.

Drake’s new album Certified Lover Boy is out Friday, September 3, he confirmed in an Instagram post Monday morning (August 30). The post features the official album cover, too, according to Tidal’s chief content officer Elliott Wilson. Announced last August with the Lil Durk collaboration “Laugh Now Cry Later,” Certified Lover Boy was first set for a January release before repeated delays. Today’s confirmation follows a cryptic ESPN promo last week pointing to the September 3 release date.

On August 21, before releasing the SportsCenter teaser, Drake apparently reignited a feud with Kanye West that began in 2008, using his guest verse on Trippie Redd’s “Betrayal” to rap, “Ye ain’t changin’ shit for me, it’s set in stone.” West responded by posting an Instagram Story of an antagonistic text message, and another revealing Drake’s home address (which he quickly deleted).

Though Certified Lover Boy is the full-length successor to 2018’s Scorpion, Drake has released some new material in between, including last year’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes. The project—Drake’s first in a decade not to make a No. 1 Billboard debut—included his attempted dance challenge “Toosie Slide.”

Drake issued the three-song Scary Hours 2 EP in March, and has also joined Smiley and Brent Faiyaz on songs this year. In May, he and Lil Wayne joined Nicki Minaj on “Seeing Green,” a new bonus track that accompanied the belated streaming debut of her 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty. Before that, Drake had teamed up on new tracks with Lil Yachty, DJ Khaled, Future, Lil Wayne, and Popcaan. Outside of the studio, he launched his own cannabis brand and was honored at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards as the Artist of the Decade.

Drake has officially announced that his sixth studio album, “Certified Lover Boy,” will be released this Friday, September 3. And if the album’s cover art is any indication it will be, shall we say, quite fertile ground for his creativity, featuring as it does 12 multi-ethnic pregnant-woman emojis. Scroll down for Drake’s official Instagram announcement with the cover art below.

“Lover Boy” was originally expected to be released months ago, but Drake sustained an injury that prompted him to push back the date. Now that it’s coming out you should update your Billboard 200 predictions for the tracking week starting on September 3 because “Lover Boy” stands a good chance of claiming the top spot.

Drake’s previous five studio albums all reached number-one. His last album, 2018’s “Scorpion,” launched in the top spot with an astounding 732,000 equivalent album units, which are calculated by combining album sales, individual track sales, and online streams; the singles from that album had performed so well that the album was certified platinum before it was even released. And even his various compilations, EPs, and mixtapes tend to do well, with his last mixtape (2020’s “Dark Lane Demo Tapes”) debuting at number-one with 223,000 units.

But how will it do at the Grammys? We’ll have to wait and see if it’s any good, of course, but even when he’s not universally lauded by critics, he often has the ear of the recording academy. He has won four Grammys to date, and he has been nominated five times for Album of the Year: twice for his own albums (“Views” and “Scorpion”) and three more times as a featured artist on other albums (Rihanna‘s “Loud,” Kendrick Lamar‘s “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City,” and Beyonce‘s “Beyonce”).

That said, Drake has had a mixed relationship with the recording academy. He thought he was mis-categorized when he won two prizes for “Hotline Bling” in 2017, so he declined to submit his album “More Life” the following year. He did, however, submit “Scorpion” for the 2019 awards and ended up with seven nominations, winning Best Rap Song for “God’s Plan.” We’ll see what he chooses to do with “Lover Boy,” especially after The Weeknd decided to sit out the Grammys going forward.

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After cryptically teasing it last week on ESPN’s SportsCenter, Drake confirmed on Monday morning (August 30) that his long-awaited new album, Certified Lover Boy, is just over the horizon. The rapper posted an image of 12 expectant mom emojis on Instagram along with the all-caps message “CERTIFIED LOVER BOY SEPTEMBER 3.”

According to hip-hop journalist Elliott Wilson, who has previously interviewed Drake, the emojis art will be the album’s cover. Billboard has reached out to Drake’s reps.

And though that street date seemed to release the air from the hype balloon that was building over a possible first-week chart battle between Drizzy and Kanye West — who surprise released his long-delayed Donda album over the weekend — it was still welcome news for the Drake nation. Last week, Drake seemed to hint that CLB was imminent on ESPN’s flagship program SportsCenter, sneaking in an image of a fan holding up a sign reading “CLB September 3” in-between baseball highlights.

In July, Drake announced during his appearance on Fri Yiy Friday — a Sirius XM radio show spearheaded by his OVO Team — that he’d finished work on his follow-up to 2018’s Scorpion. “Album’s ready … Album’s cooked, looking forward to delivering it to you. Certified Lover Boy on the way, and that’s for anyone in the way,” he said at the time.

While Drake, 34, and Kanye, 44, won’t really go head-to-head, the two superstars appeared to be setting up an epic chart clash withs some salty verses, with Drake firing first on Trippie Redd’s new song, “Betrayal.” “All these fools I’m beefin’ that I barely know/ Forty-five, forty-four (Burned out), let it go/ Ye ain’t changin’ s— for me, it’s set in stone,” he rapped. Ye followed up by posting Drake’s home address on Instagram before quickly deleting it.

Kanye seemingly responded to Drake’s latest on-record diss in a group text with other rappers, including Drizzy’s other hip-hop rival Pusha T. Last week, Ye reportedly posted and quickly deleted a screenshot of his group chat on Instagram, which featured a photo of actor Joaquin Phoenix in his full Joker movie makeup.“I live for this. I’ve been f—ed with by nerd a– jock n—-s like you my whole life. You will never recover. I promise you,” Kanye wrote in the group text, which was screengrabbed by NME.

Drake first began hyping CLB in August 2020 in the midst of the first pandemic summer, with “Laugh Now Cry Later,” then teasing a potential Jan. 2021 drop. That date came and went and then Drizzy filled the gap with the three-song Scary Hours 2 EP featuring “What’s Next,” Wants and Needs” and “Lemon Pepper Freestyle.”

While recuperating from a surgery for a knee injury, Drake dropped features with Nicki Minaj (“Seeing Green”), Brent Brent Faiyaz (“Wasting Time”) and Smiley (“Over the Top”).

Check out Drake’s post below.