According to, M/M’s Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag were commissioned to create an “illustrative letterset for the album’s liner notes as a complement to its cover art series of five bawdy paintings by American artist George Condo. Inspired by the artwork on the album, acclaimed graphic design and art direction duo M/M (Paris) have designed a new range of scarves. For that very reason I have not included pictures of that particular album cover artwork. I can see why, one in particular is rather explicit. A month prior to it’s release, Kanye announced on social networks that the album had been rejected by some stores due to its cover. Condo and West spent a few hours listening to the album after which Condo made between eight and nine paintings for the album. According to some sources, the artwork of the five album covers follows theme of the music, as well as West’s music film Runaway. George Condo, the artist commissioned to create the album artwork, revealed that Kanye desired an album cover image that would be banned. You would think the name says it all, however the album covers say even more: dark, twisted fantasies are not beautiful. What he thought was just another way to give his album more publicity, turned out to be a sadly unfunny joke about the music industry.In late November 2010, the ever-controversial hip-hop artist, Kanye West, released his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Forget about the fact that Wal-Mart hasn’t even confirmed the report and consider the effort Kanye put into making this album cover intending to shock the world as the cherry on his comeback sundae. The sad ironic truth behind the story is not that Kanye’s artwork may or may not be offensive, but rather that this story shouldn’t even matter because so few people buy CDs anymore - and that everyone saw the “banned” artwork before the album was even out. When Kanye broke the news Sunday that Wal-Mart would allegedly ban the album from its stores, Kanye once again made it seem like a huge deal and painted himself as a romantic warrior sticking it to the man. 22, the cover art is making more headlines than the leaked tracks. Now with only a month left till the album drops on Nov. Even when we’d like a little less Kanye, everything is always about … Kanye. There are enough story lines behind Kanye West‘s latest album, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,’ to fill a three-pound autobiography with Kanye’s big grin on the cover.
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