That template, very first set up on 2009’s So Far Absent mixtape, stays mainly intact for Certified Lover Boy. Drake swerves in between sentimentality and braggadocio, clinging to his regular themes: He’s been misrepresented and misunderstood he’s far better than the rappers who diss him, but also hurt by their disses and he’s perennially, fatally unlucky in really like.
