Love All
Featuring Jay-Z
"Love All" is among Certified Lover Boy's most pedigreed cuts, featuring Jay-Z and built on a sample of The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Life After Death Intro," anchoring the track in classic New York rap lineage. Production is credited to OZ, Dez Wright and Leon Thomas III. The title carries a double sense: a call to extend love widely and a tennis-scoreboard nod to starting from zero. The song is widely read as Drake examining the risk of giving affection freely while bracing for the betrayal he repeatedly anticipates, with Jay-Z's verse lending veteran weight to the meditation on loyalty. Rather than resolving the tension between generosity and caution, the track lives in it, presenting open-hearted devotion as both aspirational and dangerous given Drake's distrust of his surroundings, and standing as one of the album's more emotionally legible cuts without the provocations of some neighboring tracks.
Sources & verification
Citations below were matched specifically to "Love All" and Certified Lover Boy. Drake Universe catalogs songs by album placement, verified collaborators, producers, samples, and themes, and avoids unsupported lyric-level claims.
- 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.
