Instead, his distressed new album, “Certified Lover Boy,” sidesteps these options entirely, opting to reassert the status quo-where Drake is not only free from reproach but invulnerable. He could finally move forward in his music, using it as a space to bring more to his story. He could embrace the challenges of raising a child and co-parenting with the mother. “Hopefully by the time you hear this / Me and your mother will have come around / Instead of always cuttin’ each other down.” Drake has spent his career disparaging lovers and ignoring accountability, but this seemed like a new turn. “This champagne toast is short-lived / I got an empty crib in my empty crib,” he rapped on “March 14,” a track that played like an open letter. In the wake of the rapper Pusha T’s accusation that Drake was hiding his kid, Toronto’s streaming giant was forced into a defensive position, grappling publicly with a messy, unresolved paternity situation. Drake’s 2018 album, “Scorpion,” ended with the begrudging acceptance of fatherhood.
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