The original cover art was revealed as well.
While working for Kanye's creative content company, Donda, as its art director, Joe Perez was involved with creative conceptualization of the cover art on Kanye West 's album "Yeezus".and which was released in 2013. On Sunday, Perez, who also drew for artists such as Nick Minaj, Lil Wayne and Pusha-T in the past, revealed the very different name Kanye originally chose for his sixth studio album. As pointed out by Genius, an extended version of this title was floating on a Kanye West fan forum called “Kanye To The” in 2013, before the album came out under its final name choice, Yeezus. “Your album can always change its title, but at the moment, THANK YOU TO GOD FOR DRUGS or BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO,” wrote one anonymous user, and shockingly, they were right. Although Ye, of course, eventually changed his title, Perez's latest Instagram posts confirm that Ye almost agreed with Thank God For Drugs.
On Sunday, Perez posted the album's original artwork for Ye's project, which features the infamous CD cover concept that appears on Yeezus's cover, but with some changes. The red ribbon had not yet been added and the original title, written in blue crayon font with a white outline, is scattered at the top. “Before naming the album Yeezus, the title was 'Thank God for Drugs,'” says Perez. He credits former Kanye contributor George Condo, responsible for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy covers, for his artwork, as well as designer Virgil Abloh for his creative direction in creating the cover.
Kanye finally named the album Yeezus for several reasons, which he explained at the album listening party. “Simply put, West was my slave name and Yeezus is my god name,” he explains at 3:05. CyHi the Prynce, a GOOD Music artist, drafted the title for MTV. “A lot of people don't know Yeezus, if you share it, 'Yes, it's us,'” he explained. “I'll share with you because I don't care. Ye wouldn't talk about it, he'll be like, 'Yes, it's Yeezus and that's what's called and you have to deal with it.'
Kanye is probably very happy that he didn't choose his first choice, since today he is thanking God for taking him away from drugs. On the one-year anniversary of his Sunday service choir, Kanye revealed that the gospel collective "saved my life" and "was the alternative to opioids."
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