Damn it, Kanye West can’t keep himself out of trouble.
First, the rapper ruffled feathers after dropping by TMZ‘s offices to tell them that slavery was a choice. As if that wasn’t smooth enough (yup, sarcastic voice has been activated), now the guy’s coming under fire again after using a photo of music legend Whitney Houston’s drug-covered bathroom as a cover for fellow rapper Pusha T’s new album.
Real. Friggin’. Smooth. NOT.
In case y’all didn’t know or don’t remember, let me refresh your memory: Houston was found dead in her bathtub back in 2012. Her autopsy stated she also had marijuana, Xanax, Benadryl and other medication in her system, according to a report by PEOPLE.
Now West, in all his ‘wisdom’, went and paid over R1 million for a photo – published back in 2006 – that depicted Houston’s bathroom covered in drug paraphernalia, for Pusha T’s album DAYTONA.
And guess who’s producing the album? Yup, you guessed it – Kanye “Sensitivity-challenged” West.
This is the album art in question:
Not cool, Kanye. Not cool at all.
Meanwhile, Houston’s cousin Damon Elliott told PEOPLE that his daughter was the one who told him about the cover:
She sent me this picture from the album cover and I immediately got sick to my stomach because it took me right back to six years ago.
I was actually in shock because I’m in the music business. I’ve watched the train wreck happening, but I didn’t think [Kanye] would go this far in invading someone’s family privacy. To do something for a publicity stunt to sell records, it’s absolutely disgusting.
I just want him to tell me why he did it … what were you thinking? Did you think this through? And if you did, why did you do this? Because you’re hurting people.
Social media users are coming out in their droves to share their distaste for the controversial rapper’s dumbass decision:
Amen to all of this.
Meanwhile, Pusha T doesn’t seem bothered by the cover pic at all, uploading it to his Instagram. Apparently, West had called him with last-minute changes to the cover’s artwork before it debuted on Friday:
One a.m. [sic], my phone rings. No caller ID. [He says,] ‘Hey, yeah, I think we should change the artwork. And I like this other artwork …
I said, ‘Hey, I don’t want to pay for that and I wasn’t even going to ask you to pay for that. We picked what we picked, it’s here, it’s ready,’” he continued, adding West told him, “‘No, this is what people need to see to go along with this music. Imma pay for that.’ I say, ‘You my man! You my man!’
Classic Kanye. Looks like he’ll be rowing his boat to Hell on the river of his haters’ tears with plenty of cash to spare.
Houston is probably spinning in her grave over this.
[source:people]
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