Kanye West‘s 2016 release The Life of Pablo has made it into the top 10 of a list by Rolling Stone, but not for a good reason: the magazine voted TLOP the seventh-worst album cover of all time.
The list of “The 50 Worst Album Covers of All Time” was published on Friday (July 19).
“[D]oes he actually believe that this is a compelling album cover, or is he trying to push an eyesore aesthetic so far that it goes around the bend and becomes art, or is he just too distracted by the squirrels inside his head to care?” the magazine wrote of Ye and Pablo‘s cover.
“The answer: It doesn’t matter! Just like Ye said actual antisemitic things, and you don’t have to waste your time parsing whether he was being ‘ironic,’ you can say that whatever his intentions were, this album got hit by the ugly stick and then move on.”
Just a few places above Kanye at number 10 is one of two other Hip Hop albums to make the cut, Cappadonna’s 2021 LP Black Tarzann. RS calls it “the worst Photoshop atrocities of the 21st century.”
The “winner” at number one is Limp Bizkit’s 2000 release Presents Chocolate St★rfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.
In addition to placing in the top ten in a worst-covers-of-all-time list, West has been facing some other recent setbacks. He was recently sued for allegedly using uncleared samples on his 2021 release Donda.
According to a report from Billboard, a case was filed in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday (July 17) accusing Ye of borrowing elements from a song called “MSD PT2” for Donda cuts “Hurricane” and “Moon” – even after he was denied permission.
This, the lawyers write, was less about not paying a fee and more about the fact that “intellectual property owners have a right to decide how their property is exploited and need to be able to prevent shameless infringers from simply stealing.”
The suit notes that in an act of “blatant brazenness,” Ye even credited the song’s four creators as songwriters.
The suit was filed not by the artists, however, but by a company called Artist Revenue Advocates (ARA), which owns the copyrights to “MSD PT2.” The four writers went to ARA after they “unsuccessfully attempted to collect their share of the proceeds from these songs” for nearly three years.
The “ugly stick” smh. More out of touch whites commenting on a culture they played the biggest part in ruining.
Maybe we should bring back segregation, as to seperate “the cultures”! This would obviously be good for unfortunate persons of color. They can have their own water fountains and everything, so they don’t have to share with whites!
Always blaming white people for everything. You poor little victim.
He’s pretty bad at album covers.
Yeezus was the laziest “cover” ever.
Eminem is not the greatest rapper he is a good emcee but sometimes his music is boring. I don’t want to hear about Hailee, or Kim or his mom etc…his lyrics more shock value and his rap beefs were wack, nick cannon, Christia Aguilera, Mariah Carrey, mobey, benzino etc. Has he ever dissed somebody relevant in hip hop ? Way overrated. Lyrically and battle wise he is great which is really the only time I listen to his music. Em stans get super upset trying to convince everyone he the best of all-time he is not top 5 of all time that goes to 2pac, biggie, DMX, Nas, Big Pun or Big L, jay z, ice cube, andre 3000, etc
All the rap covers on that list are wack except 2 Live Crew. That one is dope.
NOT BREAKING NEWS. THIS GARBAGE WEBSlTE WAS UNANIMOUSLY NAMED THE WORST WEBSlTE EVER BY A LANDSLIDE. Go get a REAL J0B Shawn, one that you can actually make a decent living from.