In an Instagram post announcing the drop date for his new album, “Certified Lover Boy,” Drake also unveiled the accompanying cover art designed by none other than British artist Damien Hirst. Featuring a grid of 12 multiracial “Pregnant Women” emojis wearing different colored tops, the design’s meaning is open-ended: perhaps the rapper wants to imply that this is baby-making music, or maybe he is confessing to having fathered a dozen children, one Twitter user hypothesized. Others have more intricate interpretations: “Drake is dropping Certified Lover Boy, an album about love (baby making) 9 months after the expected release date, (9 months is a full term pregnancy), on LABOR day weekend,” speculated one Tweet.
Shortly after, the official account @drakerelated shared a photo of a physical canvas of the cover, adding that it was “1 of 2” and hinting at a potential second cover option.
While saying next to nothing about Drake’s music or his long-anticipated album, the artwork(?) is a deludedly self-referential tribute to Hirst’s career.
As Hirst once cryptically said, “I’ve always had a phenomenal love of color … I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that’s where the Spot paintings came from — to create that structure to do those colors, and do nothing.”Well, Damien, mission accomplished.
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