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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.