

“I’m kinda dece(nt)” with the software, he said.Ģ. One Instagram user suggested it was just bad Photoshop and that he could help fix it. Maybe that was the point: to confer his kingly status. Amid the barbs, a good point: compared with images of actual people out on the CN Tower’s freaky EdgeWalk, where you can pay to dangle off the tower on a tether, Drake is a 15-foot-tall giant (he’s actually about 6 feet). But here’s our point-by-point look at the album cover that launched a thousand tweets.ġ. Is the photo doctored? It seems certain, although Cronenberg, through her agent, turned down the Star’s request for comment, so we could not confirm.


Anonymous Reddit users dissected the image, decrying it as “bad Photoshop” and suggesting everything from the lighting to the angle of the tower itself were incorrect to the point of laughable. Soon after the cover appeared, so did the critics and the memes. The new record, called Views From the 6, is, like Drake himself, devoted to his hometown: “To the city I love and the people in it,” he said on Instagram. It shows Drake perched on the roof above the CN Tower’s observation deck, surveying the city like the master of an expansive domain. The rapper caused a stir Sunday when the album cover, shot by Toronto photographer Caitlin Cronenberg, appeared online. How huge? Well, if you believe the cover of his new album - set to be released on Friday - about 15 feet tall. We all know that Drake, hip-hop superstar and Toronto’s favourite son, is huge.
