Drake’s seemingly random download of 100GB of content via his Finsta account included unreleased music, behind-the-scenes footage, and even an alternate cover for his sixth studio album. Certified loverboy.
While the album’s final cover featured 16 pregnant emojis in various colors, this alternate cover featured an illustration of numerous naked women populating his studio. Some are playing instruments like the piano, saxophone, and violin, while others are scattered naked across the furniture as Drizzy watches from behind the booth. A drawing by the Toronto artist is also visible in the foreground of the image. Check it out below.
Although nudity had been featured on album covers before, the illustration was perhaps deemed too risqué to continue, so Drizzy conveyed his “loverboy” image through pregnant emojis.
Reactions to the cover were mixed, with many even going so far as to quote lyrics from Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Meet The Grahams,” in which the Canadian was accused of hypersexualizing black women and acting like a carefree nymphomaniac.
Drake is not the first OVO member to make waves with a daring album cover, as PartyNextDoor’s Party next door 4 The album cover also featured a naked woman. However, on his cover, the woman is bent over a bed as if waiting for intimate company. While the image was praised by Party’s peers like Tinashe and fellow OVO artist Preme, others had the same issue with it as many did with Drizzy’s, feeling that it oversexualized the cover star.
“Shaking my head. Why we always have to oversexualize our women,” wrote one follower in his comments section, with another adding, “The objectification is running rampant.”
“Why is this generation so horny?” asked another curious follower at the time, with an observer adding in agreement: “Why is it that most artists are ALL about sex? This is getting old. This is over the top. It gives the impression that sex is the only thing I have to offer. So uninteresting and thoughtless.”
In addition to Certified Loverboy The alternate cover of Drake’s “100GB” features never-before-heard collaborations with Latto, Young Thug and 21 Savage, a Twitter repost seemingly poking fun at J. Cole, and Drake’s revelation that his Rihanna collaboration “Too Good” was actually about Serena Williams.
