Rapper Drake teases launch date for brand new album ‘Certified Lover Boy’ in cryptic video
By ANI
WASHINGTON: Canadian rapper and songwriter Drake’s upcoming extraordinarily anticipated album ‘Certified Lover Boy’ may lastly be releasing in September, as per a cryptic clip that aired just lately.
According to Variety, the clip which was a promo for the ESPN present ‘SportsCenter’, initially glitched out and in for a couple of seconds, after which a person holding a cardboard signal studying “CLB September 3” briefly appeared with garbled audio.
The regular ‘SportsCenter’ video got here again in, and it was enterprise as common, regardless of the odd message.
The video rapidly made the rounds on social media, and Drake followers instantly understood it as an announcement for his upcoming sixth studio album, following his most up-to-date album ‘Scorpion’ from 2018.
Drake’s launch date tease got here lower than 12 hours after Kanye West carried out on the third live performance hyping up the discharge of his personal extremely anticipated and delayed album ‘Donda’.
West blew up social media on Thursday evening by bringing out controversial artists DaBaby and Marilyn Manson throughout his Chicago live performance, the place he constructed a mannequin of his childhood house in Chicago.
No stranger to controversy and no higher method to get followers buzzing about his subsequent album, West additionally set himself on fireplace and introduced out his ex-wife Kim Kardashian in a marriage costume.
The two rap icons aren’t any stranger to beef. On Trippie Redd’s current album ‘Trip at Knight’, the track ‘Betrayal’, that includes Drake, included a line that followers interpreted as a shot at West and a looming launch date battle between their albums.
“All these fools I’m beefin’ that I barely know. Forty-five, 44 (Burned out), let it go. Ye ain’t changin’ shit for me, it’s set in stone,” Drake rapped on the track.
Music business specialists and followers had just lately theorized an album showdown between Drake and West this fall between ‘Certified Lover Boy’ and ‘Donda’.
However, as per Variety, West nonetheless has not set a launch date for ‘Donda’, and Drake has taken the primary transfer by nailing down September 3 for ‘Certified Lover Boy’.
