Drake credits The Beatles on Certified Lover Boy – BBC News

That template, first established on 2009’s So Far Gone mixtape, remains largely intact for Certified Lover Boy. Drake swerves between sentimentality and braggadocio, clinging to his usual themes: He’s been misrepresented and misunderstood; he’s better than the rappers who diss him, but also hurt by their disses; and he’s perennially, fatally unlucky in love.