"Yoooo they banned my album cover!!!!!" he tweeted. "Banned in the USA!!!"
George Condo, the American artist behind Kanye's 'Power' music video/painting, created the new album cover. The banned art features a thick red border with a small painting in the center, depicting West as a nude, fanged being on a couch, holding a green bottle while a Caucasian humanoid with wings and a polka-dotted tail straddles him.
"They don't want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix!" Kanye wrote, adding, "So Nirvana can have a naked human being on they cover but I can't have a PAINTING of a monster with no arms and a polka dot tail and wings." See the banned cover [warning: graphic artwork] after the jump.
A heavy point in the artwork discussions was whether massive outlets like Wal-Mart and Best Buy would showcase Kanye's album with the nude content. "In all honesty ... I really don't be thinking about Wal-Mart when I make my music or album covers. #kanyeshrug," West wrote on Twitter.
The album is scheduled to drop Nov. 22.
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