Love Me Now?

Love Me Now? (stylized as LoVE me NOw) is the third studio album by Canadian rapper Tory Lanez, released on October 26, 2018, by Mad Love Records and Interscope Records. It follows the release of his second album Memories Don't Die by seven months.[1] [2][3] The album features guest appearances from Chris Brown, 2 Chainz, Meek Mill, Trippie Redd, Lil Baby and Bryson Tiller, among others.[4]The album was supposed to have a feature from the late Floridian rapper, XXXTENTACION but was left off due to sampling issues.

Love Me Now?
Studio album by Tory Lanez
Released	October 26, 2018 (2018-10-26)
Recorded	2018
Studio	Umbrella House (Miami, FL) Camp David Studios (Miami, FL) Black Pyramid Studios (Los Angeles, CA) Street Exec Studios (Atlanta, GA) Loud House Studios (Atlanta, GA) Record Plant (Los Angeles, CA) Republic Studios (Los Angeles, CA) Tory's Apartment (Miami, FL) Kame House (Miami, FL) Hit Maka (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre	Hip hop R&B
Length	48:52
Label	Mad Love Interscope
Producer	CashMoneyAP Cassius Jay C-Sick Dave Sava6e Dez Wright Foreign Teck Hagler Javar Rockamore Jordan Lewis NES Nik Dean Nils OG Parker OZ PLVYHAUS Smash David The Loopholes Uno Vou
Tory Lanez chronology
Memories Don't Die (2018) Love Me Now? (2018) Chixtape 5 (2019)
Singles from Love Me Now?
"Talk to Me" Released: June 21, 2018 "Keep in Touch" Released: August 16, 2018 "Ferris Wheel" Released: January 16, 2019

Prior to the album's release, Love Me Now? was supported by the three official singles: "Talk To Me" with Rich The Kid, "Keep in Touch" featuring Bryson Tiller, and "Ferris Wheel" featuring Trippie Redd.[5] The former peaked at number 55 on the Canadian Hot 100 and number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100. A reissue of the album titled Love Me Now: Reloaded was released on May 31, 2019. It includes two more singles: "Freaky" and "Broke Leg" with Quavo and Tyga.

Background

Tory Lanez announced that he is working on two new albums, "Love Me Now" and "El Agua", set to be released on summer. He also announced on September 3 that XXXTentacion will be featured on his new album "Love Me Now".[6] Lanez later unveiled on 17 October, the release date of his new album, the cover album, the tracklist and featured artists, also revealing that XXXTentacion will not appear in the album. He also explained the reason why XXXTentacion doesn’t appear in the album:[7]

"When I tweeted it, I was very excited about the record, The record's a very dope record. But the clearance and the business side didn't let me clear it in time. Hopefully, we get to get it out soon so everybody can hear it. It just didn't make the deadline for Love Me Now?"

The album was released on October 26, 2018.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Album of the Year	63/100[8]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Now	4/5[9]
Pitchfork	5.0[10]
XXL	L[11]
HNHH	8.2[12]

Love Me Now? received polarized reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website, Album of the Year, the album has an average score of 63 out of 100 based on three critic reviews.[8]

In a review for Pitchfork, Alphonse Pierre wrote, "There isn’t anything new LoVE me NOw will teach you about Tory Lanez. He still craves respect and wants to be recognized by his peers and fans alike as the hip-hop and R&B savant that he thinks he is."[10]

At the Juno Awards of 2019, the album won the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year.[13]

Commercial performance

Love Me Now? debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200, earning 54,000 album-equivalent units (with 5,000 in pure album sales) in its first week. This became Lanez' third US top-five album. The 15-track project also accumulated a total of 62.5 million on-demand audio streams that week.[14]

Track listing

Credits were adapted from iTunes and Tidal.[15][16]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Why Don't You Love Me?"	Daystar Peterson Charles Dumazer	C-Sick	3:32
2.	"She Told Me"	Peterson Alex Petit	CashMoneyAP	3:24
3.	"Duck My Ex" (featuring Chris Brown and 2 Chainz)	Peterson Christopher Brown Tauheed Epps Samuel Jimenez	Smash David Rekless^[b]	3:11
4.	"Drip Drip Drip" (featuring Meek Mill)	Peterson Robert Williams David Austin Jimenez	Smash David Dave Sava6e^[b]	3:50
5.	"Talk to Me" (with Rich the Kid)	Peterson Dimitri Roger Jimenez Barrington Wright Tavarez	Smash David Rekless^[b]	3:04
6.	"Flexible" (featuring Chris Brown and Lil Baby)	Peterson Brown Dominique Jones Jimenez Joshua Parker Terrence Williams	Smash David OG Parker Tee Romano^[a]	3:19
7.	"If It Ain't Right" (featuring A Boogie wit da Hoodie)	Peterson Artist Dubose Petit Michael Hernandez Dylan Cleary-Krell	CashMoneyAP Foreign Teck Dez Wright Mira^[b]	2:41
8.	"Ferris Wheel" (featuring Trippie Redd)	Peterson Michael White IV Ozan Yildirim Cleary-Krell	OZ Dez Wright	2:32
9.	"Cut Me Off" (featuring Nav)	Peterson Navraj Goraya Amir Esmailian Javar Rockamore Robert Reese Theodore Thomas Thomas Walker	Javar Rockamore The Loopholes	2:04
10.	"The Run Off"	Peterson Jimenez Austin	Smash David Dave Sava6e^[b]	2:51
11.	"You Thought Wrong"	Peterson Petit Kevin Orellana	CashMoneyAP Alexvnder Wolf	3:35
12.	"Miami" (featuring Gunna)	Peterson Sergio Kitchens Joshua Cross	Cassius Jay	4:04
13.	"Keep in Touch" (with Bryson Tiller)	Peterson Bryson Tiller Phillip Coleman, Jr. Marvin Thomas Jordan Lewis	NES Hagler Jordan Lewis	3:20
14.	"S.W.I.N.G" (featuring PnB Rock and Trey Songz)	Peterson Rakim Allen Tremaine Neverson Petit Hernandez Cleary-Krell	CashMoneyAP Foreign Teck Dez Wright	4:39
15.	"KJM"	Peterson Jimenez Dante Pea Wright	Smash David PLVYHAUS^[a]	2:48
Total length:				48:52

Love Me Now? – Reloaded[15]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Broke Leg" (with Quavo and Tyga)	Peterson Quavious Marshall Michael Stevenson Hernandez Dejan Nikolic Ugur Tik Wright Todd Anthony Shaw Jonathan Smith Terius Gray Dwayne Carter Byron Thomas	Foreign Teck Vou Nik Dean Uno	2:45
2.	"Freaky"	Peterson Yildirim Nils Noehden Roger	OZ Nils	2:53
Total length:				54:30

Notes

• ^{^[a]} signifies an additional producer
• ^{^[b]} signifies an uncredited co-producer
• All tracks are stylized in studly letters. For example, "Flexible" is stylized as "FlEXiBle"
• "KJM" is an abbreviation for "Kendall Jenner Music"[17]
• "Broke Leg" contains uncredited vocals by O.T. Genasis[18]
• "Freaky" contains uncredited vocals by Rich the Kid[19]

Sample credits

• "Broke Leg" contains a sample from "Back That Thang Up", written by Terius Gray, Dwayne Carter, and Byron Thomas, as performed by Juvenile featuring Mannie Fresh and Lil Wayne.[18]

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal.[20]

• Charles Dumazer – associated performer (track 1), programming (track 1)
• Johann Chavez – studio personnel (all tracks), mixer (all tracks), engineer (track 13)
• Play Picasso – studio personnel (1-4, 6-15), mixer (1-4, 6-15)
• Alex Petit – associated performer (track 2, 11), programming (track 2, 11)
• Samuel Jimenez – associated performer (tracks 3, 4, 15), programming (tracks 3, 4, 15)
• Finis "KY" White – studio personnel (track 3, 6), mixer (track 3, 6)
• MikFly – engineer (track 5), studio personnel (track 5)
• Daystar Peterson – engineer (track 5), studio personnel (track 5)
• Alex Petit – associated performer (track 6, 7, 14), programming (track 6, 7, 14)
• Michael Hernandez – associated performer (track 6, 7, 14), programming (track 6, 7, 14)
• Dylan Cleary-Krel – associated performer (track 6, 7, 14), programming (track 6, 7, 14)
• Oz – associated performer (track 8)
• Dez Wright – associated performer (track 8)
• Stonii Tha Melody God – associated performer (track 9), programming (track 9)
• Rockamore – associated performer (track 9), programming (track 9)
• Bobby Keyz – associated performer (track 9), programming (track 9)
• Kevin Orellana – associated performer (track 11), programming (track 11)
• Joshua Cross – associated performer (track 12), programming (track 12)
• Bryson Tiller – engineer (track 13), studio personnel (track 13)
• Chris Gehringer – mastering engineer (track 13), studio personnel (track 13)

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2018) Peak position Australian Digital Albums (ARIA)[21] 41 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[22] 68 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[23] 142 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[24] 4 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[25] 21 French Download Albums (SNEP)[26] 39 Irish Albums (IRMA)[27] 60 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[28] 37 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[29] 26 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[30] 90 UK Albums (OCC)[31] 18 UK R&B Albums (OCC)[32] 10 US Billboard 200[14] 4 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[33] 2

Year-end charts Chart (2019) Position US Billboard 200[34] 93 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[35] 69

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