Music

Of Course Kanye West’s New Album Cover Is Already A Huge Fucking Meme

Yeezus bless the internet.

by Jules LeFevre  4 June 2018
Kanye West 'Ye'

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On Friday, Kanye West released his eighth studio album, Ye. 

As expected, it landed with some serious fanfare: West flew out a planeload of media, celebrities, musicians, industry execs, and “influencers” to a mountain resort in Wyoming for a listening party hosted by Chris Rock — which was live streamed around the world.

Ye hit streaming services early the next day — and while opinions on the record itself remain decidedly mixed, there’s been collective excitement about one particular part of it: the cover.

According to Kim Kardashian, Kanye snapped the cover of Ye on his iPhone on the way to the listening party — and it turned out like this:

Perhaps Kanye knew that the cover was destined to be memed, because a day after Ye dropped he tweeted a link to an artwork generator (dubbed the ‘Yenerator‘) created by developer Tim Bauman and artist Yung Jake — which allows users to easily slap their desired text onto the mountain background.

Naturally the internet went bananas, and thousands of Ye memes are flooding social media as we speak — from light disses (‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’) to hardcore truths (‘Pineapple doesn’t belong on pizza’).

Yeezus bless the internet. Scroll down to see some of the best.

Make your own Kanye West ‘Ye’ album cover here.

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Lead image via Twitter/Seinfeld Current Day