Damien Hirst designs image for Drake's new album

Image of Drake's Instagram confirming the authorship of the album cover.

On Friday, September 3, after a nine-month delay, Canadian rapper Drake will release his sixth studio album,

Little is known about the album, but Drake has already advanced his image, a dozen emojis of pregnant women of different ethnicities with a completely white background.

And on social networks he also announced the name of the author of the cover, the British artist Damien Hirst, one of the most sought-after contemporary authors.

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Hirst had already worked on pregnant women as a symbol in his sculpture

(2005), and with a similar play of colors in

(2012). The game with colors was also used last summer, when he raised funds for charities linked to public health, and used the idea popularized by British children in thousands of windows, the drawing of a rainbow as a symbol of support for the National Service of Health (NHS), in two types of plates: a rainbow formed by butterflies and a multicolored heart. Controversial, the Briton is the author of phrases such as "Art talks about life, the art market talks about money." At 56 years old, he is the richest artist in the United Kingdom (his fortune is close to 400 million euros), and during confinement he returned to work alone in his studio in London, when years ago he admitted that he paid other creators to to carry out their works.

As for Drake, the rapper and actor has sold 170 million records throughout his career and in March he placed three songs at the top of the United States singles chart, something that no one had achieved up to that point.

The musician is a Canadian Jew with a black father raised in an affluent suburb of Toronto, as far removed from the rapper stereotype as possible.

But he was mentored by Lil Wayne, and the hip-hop world embraced him.

Among its other records, it stands out that it has been the first to exceed 50,000 million views

On Spotify, he has taken home 275 awards, including four Grammys, and his net worth is around $ 180 million.

Did Drake just announce Certified Lover Boy's release date of next Friday on SportsCenter?

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- XXL Magazine (@XXL) August 27, 2021

Certified Lover Boy

was going to be published nine months ago, but its release has been delayed twice: on his 34th birthday, the musician uploaded a trailer for a record that he expected for the summer of 2020, although the pandemic halted the edition; In October 2020, it confirmed the release date of January 2021 ... until the anterior cruciate ligament in one knee was torn. The first single,

appeared in August 2020. The September 3 date was revealed on August 27 by Drake with an announcement on

sports program

.