Now that we have CLB,

It begs the question. . . What would the January 2021 version have looked like?

Certainly the Kanye related material would have been omitted, 7am would have been non-existent

Would the material that we got on SHII appeared on the tracklist?

What do you guys think January 2021 CLB would have looked like? Would it have been a stronger album if it saw its original January deadline?

tbh it was probably more concise like he said in the rap radar interview.

7 am wasn't on there, way to sexy, fountains, no friends in the industry, you only live twice and papi's home most likely.

which would make it 15 tracklist

Wants and Needs
Lemon Pepper
LNCL
F*cking Fans
Race my mind
Papi's Home
Champagne Poetry
Pipe Down
Get Along Better
TSU
Love All
N 2 deep (Maybe)

I think it would look something like this

This is pretty spot on. I also think What's Next might've ended up being a single and Way 2 Sexy probably doesn't exist

Forgot about What's Next. Yeah definitely for sure.

I think the Jan 2021 CLB def had some features he gave away like The Neptunes joint, Solid, Having Our Way, etc.

Also there was a Fall 2020 version of CLB. Noel mentioned "mulitple versions" of the album exist and the Swedish twins have a screenshot from July 2020 where Drake is talking about dropping Aug/Sept 2020 (which lines up with the (90% post from Drake). That's probably the album Drake was referencing in his IG live in April 2020.

It's really been a long journey to release date lol

Nobody knows, don't guess

Why not? It's a forum my boy lol speculation, guessing is all a part of it wtf lol

We can revisit if Drake tells us but it's just a guessing game atp that we can't even use sources or inferences to help make better lol

And?

People guess on forums all the time lol I fail to see what's the downside of healthy speculation lol

It's "dream January tracklist", we can call that healthy

7AM and I think NFITI the latest tracks to be added imo

way too sexy was made in late feb fwiw

I don’t think it begs that question at all

Those 3 songs definitely weren't on the album

how do u know?

friend was in the studio when thug and future recorded, it either was originally their song or they did their parts first bc drake wasn’t on it yet

solid was intended for CLB so that would’ve been on there & get along better and in the bible was recorded in late 2020 so chances are they both was on there

This album kinda got spoilt in my opinion. it went through few phases, DLDT leap frogged this one, went through few waves of covid, boy caught covid, acl injury etc. Not to mention handful of good songs from the album were already out there on the internet too (not around, intoxicated, lotta 42)

I'm waiting for the next one.

edit: I'm hoping and praying this album to grow on me

Love the current CLB but I’d love if we could get a Drake album that wasn’t revolving around a beef with Kanye or Push

And an album I’d fw wayyyy less tbh

SH2, LNCL would be there. No 7AM, No Friends, Way 2 Sexy. Hard to say about the rest.

Wonder what the original album cover idea was back then.