Girls Want Girls
Featuring Lil Baby
"Girls Want Girls" pairs Drake with Lil Baby on one of Certified Lover Boy's most-discussed tracks, largely because of a hook premise many listeners and critics found tone-deaf — Drake aligning himself with women's attraction to other women — which generated significant online debate during the album's release. Produced by OZ and Ambezza (the album credits also note an interpolation of Drake's own "Time Flies"), it operates beneath the discourse as a standard flex-and-romance record, with Drake and Lil Baby trading boasts over a sparse trap backdrop. The collaboration itself was a commercial draw, pairing two of the era's biggest forces, and the song was issued to rhythmic radio as the album's second single on September 28, 2021, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Its cultural footprint rests less on craft than on the discourse it generated, making it a frequent reference point in discussions of the album's reception and the limits of Drake's romantic posturing.
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.
