As his star rose, he helped others along. That's all to say that this final design certainly wasn't the only design that Drake considered, although some might take the side that it does have the potential to have been the first draft.ĭrake recently took to Instagram to showcase the other designs considered, with a wide range of aesthetics, mediums, subjects, and color palettes, and it's fair to say that there's always more going on behind the scenes than we often give credit for. Thanks to his introspective rap style, his sensitive R&B crooning, and his gold-touch songwriting, each one of his albums - from 2011s Take Care to 2018s trap-influenced Scorpion - topped charts worldwide, and singles like the Grammy-winning 'Hotline Bling' and many of his mixtapes did too. Also, in case theres any confusion, the original album cover was a Photoshop job too. While Drake's Certified Lover Boy album cover took the world by storm, inducing spinoff memes and endless chatter of the art's deeper meanings and purpose, what we didn't realize was that this final version was just that: one version. Get creative and showcase your own view of the 6. We usually don't ever even have the opportunity to see the first draft, let alone the thoughts between the first and the last version. Nevertheless, when we observe someone else's art, we see iterations far from the first draft.
We've all been taught, excessively so, that our first idea is probably not our best. At the time of its release many speculated that the cover art was a reference to Drakes own virility though many of the songs explore the 35-year-olds relationship with his son, Adonis, and.