Get Along Better
Featuring Ty Dolla $ign
"Get Along Better" frames its title as a rueful observation: distance, paradoxically, improves a connection that closeness strains. It features Ty Dolla Sign, whose vocal blending suits the wistful tone, and production is credited to Nineteen85 and Noah "40" Shebib, with Noel Cadastre as co-producer. The song is widely read as Drake reflecting on a relationship sustained more easily from afar than up close — a familiar inversion in his romantic writing where intimacy breeds friction. Rather than resolving whether the relationship should continue, it sits in the bittersweet recognition that the two function best when separated, contributing to the album's accumulation of cautious, ambivalent romance rather than standing as a single-driven moment.
Sources & verification
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- Pitchfork: Kanye West 'Donda' album reviewPitchfork · 2021-09-09 — Dated album review covering Donda's release-week proximity to Certified Lover Boy.
- Pitchfork: Drake 'Certified Lover Boy' album reviewPitchfork · 2021-09-07 — Dated album review covering Certified Lover Boy and the Donda release-week framing.
- The New York Times: Drake's Certified Lover BoyThe New York Times · 2021-09-03 — NYT Joe Coscarelli CLB feature.
- Wikipedia: Certified Lover BoyWikipedia · 2026-05-18 — Primary reference for CLB release, rollout, billboard campaign, Damien Hirst artwork controversy, full track listing, sample/producer credits, critical reception (Metacritic 60), commercial performance (613,000 first-week units; tenth #1; nine top-ten singles), Grammy withdrawal and certifications.
- Pitchfork: Certified Lover Boy Unseats Donda, Debuts at No. 1 With Biggest Week of 2021Pitchfork · 2021-09-12 — Chart-context source for CLB's 613,000-unit debut overtaking Kanye West's Donda (309,000) atop the Billboard 200, the biggest US week of 2021 at the time.
