Drake announces surprise new album ‘Honestly, Nevermind’

Drake has revealed he’s set to drop a new album at midnight EST tonight (June 17), titled ‘Honestly, Nevermind’.

The rapper revealed the news in an Instagram post earlier today, when he released the album’s artwork, which contains chrome lettering with pastel rainbow shadowing and the album’s title in chrome lettering.

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He didn’t reveal much else about the album, which will be his seventh studio album and the follow-up to ‘Certified Lover Boy’ from last year. Drake’s new SiriusXM radio programme, ‘Table For One,’ is due to premiere tonight at 11 p.m. EST, and it’s possible that he’ll announce more details about the upcoming album then.

It’s unclear whether he’ll have any guest appearances on the upcoming album, but Kanye West — now known legally as Ye — liked the Instagram post, raising speculation about a collaboration.

It’ll be the first time the two rappers have collaborated since their long-running dispute ended last November, with West declaring in November that it was “time to put it to rest.” They then performed together at a ‘Free Larry Hoover’ benefit event and were photographed at Drake’s house.

The news of the new album follows the rapper’s appearance in the studio in March of this year. There were rumours that he was working on new music as a result of this, but nothing was confirmed at the time.

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His latest album ‘Certified Lover Boy’ was released in September last year, featuring collaborations with Lil Baby (‘Girls Want Girls’), Travis Scott (‘Fair Trade’), Ty Dolla $ign (‘Get Along Better’), Kid Cudi (‘IMY2’), Future (‘N 2 Deep’), and Lil Wayne and Rick Ross (‘You Only Live Twice’), among others.

Speaking about the album in a two-star review, NME‘s Rhian Daly described it as “a boring, bloated disappointment”.

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“If Drake feels like the weight of the world is upon him, as he suggests on ‘Champagne Poetry’, ‘Certified Lover Boy’ is not going to go any way towards blasting away that burden,” she wrote. “It offers nothing new to the rapper’s canon, merely going through the motions on his old formulas instead.

“If Drake really wants to enter a new golden age, he’s going to have to be a lot more creative – and tough with his editing – to make it happen. Right now, though, his spark is rapidly burning out.”