Kanye's Album Cover Banning was a STUNT!!

Written By SueJo @SJ_ent

Kanye Album Cover Was A Publicity Stunt

For those of you who believed that Kanye being "upset" about the controversy for his My Dark Twisted Fantasy album cover, was crap, you were RIGHT!

According to Vibe, the artist of the cover, George Condo The New Yorker's Calvin Tomkins, revealed in a recent profile that Kanye specifically asked him to paint a cover that would be outlawed.

This is a portion of the article (via Vibe):

A couple of weeks before my first visit to Condo's studio, Kanye West, the rapper, asked him to do a painting for the cover of his new album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. West said that he had seen paintings by Condo, and wanted to collaborate with him. According to Condo, he also said that he was looking for "something that will be banned."

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West came to Condo's studio, where for several hours they listened to tapes of his music, and over the next few days Condo made eight or nine paintings. Two of them were portraits of West, one in extreme closeup, with mismatched eyes and four sets of teeth. Another showed his head, crowned and decapitated, placed sideways on a white slab, impaled by a sword. There was also a painting of a dyspeptic ballerina in a black tutu, a painting of the crown and the sword by themselves in a grassy landscape, and a lurid scene of a naked black man on a bed, straddled by a naked white female creature with fearsome features, wings, no arms, and a long, spotted tail. West chose that one.

It shouldn't come to us by surprise right? I mean celebs do this all of the time to get media attention for their album. In Kanye's case, it worked as his album sold nearly 500,000 copies in its first week and ranked #1 on the sales chart placing Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday at #2.

But still...the fact that he went on a Twitter rampage about his album cover controversy when he KNEW it was his idea all along is just...like betrayal man.