By: Natasha Archary
While Drake fans around the world binge on his new album South Africans took the opportunity to turn DJ Zinhle into a Certified Lover Boy meme.
The 6th album by Drake was postponed twice but due to his ongoing feud with Kanye West who just dropped his DONDA album, the Toronto rapper decided it was now or never.
Drake shared the album art cover on 30 August which sent social media into a frenzy and included 12 emoji’s of pregnant women with varying skin tones, hair colour and T-shirts.
There have been a number of parodies to the Certified Lover Boy art cover since then, including Lil Nas X jumping on the Drake ‘fanboy bandwagon’ by teasing his album Montero will release on 17 September and shared an image of 12 pregnant men as his album artwork.
South Africans who didn’t want to miss out on the fun decided to capitalize on DJ Zinhle’s recent pregnancy announcement and turned the serial entrepreneur into Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ meme.
The meme was created by South African talent manager, Garrick Williams who DJ Zinhle tagged in the post she shared on her social media.
“When will you guys start respecting me?” the Era By DJ Zinhle mogul captioned the post, accompanied by the hysterically laughing emoji.
Many of her followers found the meme to be on point with a few suggesting that the creator got lazy and should have given each DJ Zinhle emoji a different wig.
Drake’s Certified Lover Boy album artwork was created by British artist Damien Hirst.