Rolling Stone trashes Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo” artwork.
Kanye West has made it to a new Rolling Stone list but for wrong reasons. Rolling Stone recently published a new list of 50 worst album cover art of all time, and the Donda rapper is named in the top 10 with his project “The Life Of Pablo.”
“The Kanye Conundrum: Does he mean it?” the publication wrote about Ye’s TLOP cover. “In this case, does 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 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.”
“this one album cover literally inspired so much art and fashion when it dropped lol,” a user wrote. “Not the greatest album cover ever, however it’s iconic. Either way def not one of the worst of all time,” wrote another. “they might have to get defunded for this.”
Rolling Stone ranks Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo’ as the 7th worst album cover of all time
Worse than Cappadonna’s ‘Black Tarrzann’ 🤔 pic.twitter.com/zyfjAEemdk
— Kurrco (@Kurrco) July 20, 2024
While Rolling Stone trashed the artwork in their list, but the cover was a huge influence in music, graphic design, fashion and other things. It was Ye’s seventh studio album and was released in 2016. It featured appearances from Rihanna, Kid Cudi, Young Thug, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, Ty Dolla Sign, Chance the Rapper, Frank Ocean, Post Malone and more.
