3 album covers in our archive
Drake is featured in Behind the Covers' archive with 3 album covers spanning the 2020s and 2010s. Released across OVO Sound / Republic Records, Cash Money Records / Republic Records / Young Money Entertainment and Young Money Entertainment / Cash Money Records / Republic Records labels, the artwork sits in the hip-hop, r&b, pop tradition. Below you'll find the full story behind each Drake cover — designers, photographers, label history, and the visual choices that defined the release.
Cover evolution
A rhinestone glove throws an 'okay' sign into pure black on Drake's Iceman, a wink at Michael Jackson that landed just as Drake tied Jackson's record for US No. 1 hits. Then the White House got hold of it, swapped in a MAGA pendant, and the internet turned the whole thing into parody.
The cover of Drake's Views looks like straight architectural photography: the CN Tower's observation pod against a bruised gray sky. But the real image hid a joke in plain sight, a composite that shrank a skyscraper and blew up a rapper, then broke the internet in 2016.
A gold candle burns beside a young man staring into a chalice. Jonathan Mannion shot Drake inside his favorite Toronto restaurant, and the picture asks the question the whole album circles: what does it cost to go from a basement to a throne?
