The PDF that comes with Drake’s much-anticipated album Views is an equally important piece of work. Great art should pose questions to an audience, and this digital photobook leaves us with many. Drake has long positioned himself as a conflicted character – a serious contender for the title of World Rap Kingpin, yet simultaneously haunted by the trappings of wealth and success, feelings that he isn’t afraid to commit to record.

Make no mistake, Aubrey Graham is an introspective, sensitive, self-aware character. These various dimensions to Drizzy make whatever he releases open to scrutiny and analysis – and where better to start than the photos that he’s selected as the visual accompaniment to Views? The album is clearly influenced by the most reflective season – winter, a time of year notorious for discontent and disenchantment.

Hard as it is, we’re going to get inside his head and imagine what he’s thinking as the photos are being taken.

“One bottle of champagne, two glasses. Just me drinking. Again.”

“I should never have said, ‘If you had a twin I would still choose you’. Is that offensive to twins? I hope they haven’t heard ‘Work’. Fuck, everyone’s heard ‘Work’.”

"They say a dog is a man’s best friend, but I know if I didn’t have you on this lead you’d run away forever.”

“Stare straight ahead and he’ll stop looking. Stare straight ahead and he’ll stop looking. Stare straight ahead and he’ll stop looking.”

“I hate being in cars because it’s my drive that’s made me lonely”

“Spider-Man had it good, didn’t he? Just webbing his way between all those buildings. In solitude.”

“I can see the whole of the world from up here, but I’d trade it all for the one truest image of myself.”