KanYe West – ‘Monster’
Leading up to the release of his fifth studio album KanYe West aka ‘Ye Tudda is tweaking the fine points of the production. This includes the album’s cover art. In all the previous projects ‘Ye Tudda has shown a steadfast and meticulous mind for every detail.
For this album, titled ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ KanYe settled in on the painting displayed above. The Tall Israelis however nipped this idea in the butt [ll]. It’s still too close to the Taylor Swift fiasco for the T.I.’s to let KanYe ride off with all of this provocative imagery.
The last thing Universal/DefJam/Rocafella needs is for some retired soccer moms to stage a protest at Wal-Mart or BestBuy and keep this album from selling out. It’s not like people are buying CD’s anyhoo so there’s prA’li no reason to further tempt fate.
Too bad for ‘Ye Tudda tho’ since this wasn’t the first rejected piece of cover art for this album. Here’s a brief retrospective of all the deleted cover art designs for ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ dropping in stores on November 22nd.
Peace to Frank Frazetta
More Frank
Vaughn Bode was the GOAT
I’ve been ignoring all the pre-release hype because I fucking hate inane posse cuts (life is waaaaaaay too short) but that cover is dope. Do ya’ll think it was a really the cover Kanye submitted or just a publicity stunt?
If it is real, thumbs down to ‘Ye and whoever squashed it– but yeah, why should a rapper put out a cd– and vinyl?– that we might actually desire to physically OWN because it’s a compelling, thoughtful object. (A la, say, Pedro Bell’s album covers for Funkadelic.)
People cut on Kanye’s style but
1) I don’t care how he dresses
2) At least he’s not a goddamn chump or sheep his ‘Yankees fitted,’ ooh, that’s “style”
p/s– who the fuck is really gonna ‘boycott’ a Yeezy album?
I don’t buy that, and if it really did happen, it would only boost sales as the folks who buy music took an extra step to check it out.
This is a review of a documentary about the painter, George Condo:
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/condo_painting/
Why Kanye’s fantasies so twisted, though? As a happy Chicagoan I would have hoped they’d be more in the wheelhouse of a Tom Wessleman by now:
http://www.google.com/images?q=Tom+Wesselmann&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=iJS8TJTZDIKVnAffl5WzAQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQsAQwAA&biw=1280&bih=685
I get it though, he’s into making satire on the human condition of endless lust for life: word to George Grosz…
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=george+grosz&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=lZW8TIH3Jc-Tnwevicy4Bw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CDYQsAQwAA&biw=1280&bih=685
There is no such thing as bad publicity.. Kanye wins automatically with this album cover.
Where the eff is there a location that folks buy music all the time in physical format that are gonna be pissed at Ye?
If your shit is mostly sold on the internets, regulations state there must be some kinda tittays on display.
Vaughn Bode was the GOAT
the one with the cheetah is a win. the latest one umm no that shit is just fucking strange. kanye is just trying to be hard to be different just make the album minus the fucking drama.
The album cover. Hmmm . . . ok, yeah. Next.
The thing with this move is that its begging for attention and publicity.
“Superstar rapper Kanye West has become a master of all media in creating anticipation for his upcoming release” – L.A. Times
Really. If you’re a superstar rocker, emcee, singer or whatever and you decide to use a provocative image for your new album it will generate some kind of controversy and publicity. He’s been performing new cuts, releasing new cuts, cutting up Twitter, etc. and then he declares the album is banned from the U.S.A probably before the artwork was sent to the printers.
A PR move, that’s about it. Next. I’m sure the news cycle will be ready for another KanYe tidbit. Oh wait, I spoke too soon. He has a cut with 11 artists. Wow, how novel.
That BODE piece is a killer.
THE HOMIE ‘YE IS THE EXACT EPITOMY OF WHAT THE “ENTERTAINMENT” BIZ IS REALLY ALL ABOUT…AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED, RIGHT PEOPLE?!? EVERY ONE OF OUR ROCK STAR-STATUS ENTERTAINERS ALWAYS CATCHES SCRUTINY FOR BEING TOO LITTLE OF WHAT IT IS WE EXPECT FROM THEM, OR EITHER TOO MUCH OF WHAT WE REALLY ANTICIPATED THEM TO BE. AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE BOY PUTS TOOTH PASTE ON HIS TOOTH BRUSH AND BRUSHES HIS TEETH THE SAME WAY WE DO. PUT YOURSELF IN THE SHOES OF SOMEONE WHO HAS SOLD 25-30 MILLION RECORDS IN SUCH A SHORT TIME SPAN AND SEE IF YOU DON’T STEP OUTSIDE YOUR OWN BODY ON SOME OTHER SHIT FOR A MINUTE…
TO PUT IT SHORT, HE’S AN ENTERTAINER AND HE’S JUST FINDING MORE CREATIVE WAYS TO KEEP US ALL ENTERTAINED AND IT’S OBVIOUSLY WORKING. SO WHAT HE LIKES TO WEAR TIGHT RED SUITS AND THE OCCASIONAL V-NECK DOWN TO HIS BELLY BUTTON, EXPOSING HIS BOCA MEAT ON HIS CHEST…SOME OF OUR GREATEST ENTERTAINERS HAVE DONNED THE SAME IF NOT WORST (i.e. EDDIE MURPHY, PRINCE ROGER NELSON, MIKE JACKSON..) AND THEY SAY HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. AT LEAST THE BOY AIN’T LOSING HIS MIND OFF DRUGS AND GETTING INTO ALL SORTS OF TROUBLE WITH THE LAW LIKE TIP’S DUMB ASS….HE JUST A MAMA’S BOY FROM THE CITY OF CHICAGO (AND THERE’S A LOT OF THOSE IN MY CITY, BELIEVE ME!) WHO HAPPENS TO MAKE G.O.O.D. MUSIC….