Former DONDA art director Joe Perez has revealed the original name for Kanye West’s 2013 album Yeezus was initially Thank God For Drugs. The revelation came as Perez was posting old concept designs from his tenure at the Kanye-led design firm to Instagram.
“3.2.2013 – Pre-Yeezus gif concepts – Round 2,” he captioned the post. “Before naming the album Yeezus, the title was ‘Thank God For Drugs.'”
Perez also included GIFs of the design work. The front cover design was similar to the final Yeezus cover, with the exception of the title written across the top in child-like handwriting. He displayed the back case with an image of a pipe-cleaner figure laying under a pile of prescription pills as well. [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
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Perez noted the art featured in the design was by My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy collaborator George Condo with creative input from DONDA creative director Virgil Abloh.
Along with the casing design, Perez revealed the actual name for the album’s accompanying Yeezus Tour was originally called the Till Death Do Us Part Tour.
While Perez gave Ye fans a trip down memory lane, Ye has been grabbing headlines with Jesus Is King as well as the non-secular rant he went on following Drake’s Rap Radar interview.
Splendid!
he is back on the straight and narrow.
Lmao..SMH
Lol. Kanye should of named it “Drakes the landlord” honestly Kanye achieved negative karma for all the shenanigans he tried to pull with drake. That malicious behaviour Him and pusha T implemented really hurt them both. RIP your careers for real
Drake called. He wants his d!<k back from out your mouf…
karma? Do you believe in astrology too?
What did they do that was so bad to Drake? Have a rap beef that Drake couldn’t win lol? Drake is a fucking industry hack. Pusha T is at least actually talented, although we all know he’s not doing what he raps about.
It’s nice to see Kanye staying off the drugs now. I hope DMX can stay clean too… He was so talented, and a really good man. I doubt he has any more great music in him, but none the less, I’d like to see him out of jail, and clean from drugs.
Please direct me to articles about his drug use…
Look for it yourself. You ever heard of this new tool, called a “search engine”? I don’t have anything to prove to you. So it yourself if you question it.
One day, we’re going to wake up to news reports…”Breaking News: rapper Kanye West has passed away”….
Yeah breaking news everybody dies cuh
And when Deazy89 dies, there will be no headlines.
LOL at this being art and needing “creative” input from two people. Rappers try so hard. Album had one good song and that was New Slaves. The rest had either loud noise/industrial beats or interesting beats with hard drums…or chipmunk soul with horns. That title suit the finished product better
I didn’t really like Yeezus, but don’t ya think Black Skinhead deserves to be called a good song too?
Yeez Yeezy Yeezy, his BULGE is huge and cheesy, not quite as big as Breezy’s, but the smell will make you queezy!