Kanye West’s controversial selection for Pusha T’s DAYTONA cover art — a photo of Whitney Houston’s drug-laden bathroom — has received criticism from the late singer’s estate. Now, her ex-husband Bobby Brown is also bothered by Yeezy’s handiwork.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Brown lashed out at West after being told what the cover depicted. The former New Edition member hadn’t seen the DAYTONA artwork at the time of the conversation but that didn’t stop him from expressing his desire to slap Yeezy over it.
“That’s really disgusting that he would do that,” Brown said. “That’s in really bad taste. Something should happen to Kanye. He’s already crazy. I knew that when I first met him. Now he’s pushing the bar a little bit. He needs somebody to slap him up or something. And I’m just the person to do it.”
Last week, Houston’s cousin Damon Elliott also referred to the cover as being “disgusting” while speaking to PEOPLE. The chart-topping singer’s nephew Gary Michael Houston was more forgiving, blaming the person who “violated the trust” of his aunt by selling the photo to tabloids for any wrongdoing instead of West and Pusha.
According to Pusha, West spent $85,000 to license the photo. The G.O.O.D. Music president said Yeezy decided to change the cover art to the controversial image just a few days before DAYTONA was released on May 25.
Bobby – What’s truly disgusting is what you did to Whitney
LOL bobby you did this!!!
Sit down with me Bobby and lets have a chat about disgusting things people do.
weird… an addict blaming someone else… loser
No what she did to him. She was a crackhead before she got with him.
Says a lot about him that he didnt realize the obvious irony of him saying he’d slap someone over disrespecting Ms.Houston…who he used to slap…and disrespect.
Terrible choice of words. What a clown.
Kanye needs his head chopped off point blank all clowns who drinking the devils kool aid deserves this treatment .Big Ups to B’Brown !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Crackheads sure do make me laugh!
Needs to slap himself for introducing her to cocaine.
She already knew about it, she used to cop coke in Irvington
Slap him up Bobby. He paid 85k for the shit? A New Low
If BB took care of Whitney instead of feeding of her fame and treating her like shit, that bathroom might have never looked like that. A husband is supposed to take care of his wife and help her. Also, if he hates that picture so much how come he hasn’t done anything to get the rights to it before now? FOH.
Sidenote, that cover is great because it shows the bad sides of doing drugs while Pushas rap shows the good sides of selling. It’s like ying and yang. Cant have one without the other.
I think the decision to use the disrespectful, dissed tasteful Whitney Houston bathroom pic was to take the focus of how honestly mediocre Pusha T’s effort & BARS overall where. If not Bobby Brown then I hope somebody else pull up on these disrespectful hoes & slap em!! & DAMN!! Y’all shitting on Bobby Brown but U gotta remember Bobby & Whitney did Exactly what two crackheads in love are supposed to do
What crackheads in love are supposed to do? Beat each other and bring each other down? Seriously, what crackheads in love are supposed to do is seek some damn help. Also, DAYTONA is a great project. If you found his bars mediocre I’d like to know what you think is hot.
He should be the last person to comment on anything, heck he’s the one who introduced her to coke and shit!
This sound unbelievable. But it was her who introduced him.
Her brother introduced her, no one trashes him. We all make unwise decisions, she paid the price with her life.
Shows how much you don’t know! Where did you get or come up with that Bobby B introduced her to coke?
The cover was dope. Bobby wasn’t around slapping her pipe out of her hand, he was helping to fill it. He also beat her down several times… a shame. All of these relatives weren’t there when she was in that state, they sure are around to bitch now though. It’s not nearly as bad as that Drake Blackface shit.
Whether it’s Houston or someone not famous, using a pic of that sort to capitalize and grow your pockets is selfish. Why not use the plastic surgeon’s office or hospital bed where his mom died?
West wanted to use a picture of the surgeon but the surgeon said no.
People saying that the cover is “dope”……. get real
Why is it “disgusting”? It’s truthful. That’s the view of the late singer’s home. So displaying the truthful situation is now disgusting? Just like speaking the truth is now hate speech.
Bitch shut your mouth before I slap you as well . And don’t you dare mention my boy Orwell
I think the photo was taken in the bathroom of the hotel room where W. H was found dead. Not in her “home.”.
Look up the Joe Rogan experience episode with Joey Coco Diaz and Doug Stanhope as guests. Joey is telling mad stories how he used to sell blow to Bobby and Whitney, they would come pick it up in a limo every fuckin day lol it was hilarious
Somebody should of slapped Bobby Brown long ago for what he did to Whitney.. That’s MY prerogative
Coming from the guy who pushed whitney down that road. He needs the smack. Anyone who wants it removed is ashamed as they either stood by and watched the destruction or caused it.
Uh, you should do some research. Whitney was on drugs since her second album and her whole family has a history of serious drug problems. A lot of whitney fans always wanna place blame on bobby yet she is totally guilt free for HER choices.
Give him bobby brown jaw
LOL
Like he used to slap his wife?
I listen to music for the music and most of y’all losers only care about pictures. Why does anyone care nowadays about cover art when you downloaded the album for free?
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Bobby fucking Brown wants stabbing for getting her addicted in the first place the piece of shit.