He revealed the original cover art, as well.
On Sunday, Perez posted the original album artwork for Ye’s project, which features the infamous clear CD case concept that eventually made the cut on the Yeezus cover, but with some changes. The red tape had not yet been added, and the original title, written in blue crayon-imitation font with a white outline, is sprawled across the top. “Before naming the album Yeezus, the title was ‘Thank God For Drugs,’” Perez points out. He credits Kanye’s former collaborator, George Condo, who is responsible for the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy covers, for his artwork, as well as designer Virgil Abloh for his creative direction on the creation of the cover.
Kanye ultimately named the album Yeezus for many reasons, which he explained at the album’s listening party. “Simply put, West was my slave name and Yeezus is my god name,” he explains at the 3:05 mark. CyHi the Prynce, a G.O.O.D. Music artist, elaborated on the title to MTV. “A lot of people don’t know Yeezus if you break it down is: ‘Ye-Is-us,” he explained. “I’ll break it down to you because I don’t care. Ye will let you sit there and beat yourself up about it. He ain’t gonna do no interviews. He gonna be like, ‘Yeah it’s Yeezus and that’s what it’s called and y’all gotta deal with it.’” Kanye is likely quite glad he didn’t go with his first choice, since, these days, he is thanking God for getting him away from drugs. At the one year anniversary of his Sunday Service Choir, Kanye revealed that the gospel collective, “saved my life,” and “was the alternative to opioids.”
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