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Drake’s new album: Inside his lover boy comeback after Kendrick's Not Like Us

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Drake 's new album, $ome $ exy $ongs 4 U , is a return to his lover-boy persona.

Hip-hop's Kendrick Lamar diss track Not Like Us has become a cultural phenomenon.

But Drake is coming out fighting with an "intriguing" strategy after being put in a "cultural chokehold".

New album revisits his early 2010s era , when he "sounded confident in what he was trying to do" But, says music and culture journalist Manu Ekanayake , can he really go back to being the singing party boy? Drake is curating his own legacy and shifting the conversation away from defeat and back to dominance.