Kanye West Encouraged Fans To Make These Funny Fake Album Covers For ‘Ye’

Last Friday, Kanye West released his eighth studio album, Ye, after a listening party at a Wyoming ranch that has since banned rappers. You can stream the album here or read our reviews here and here. The 23 minute-long album seemed to be a last-minute affair, with Kanye still working on it during the day of release and the album cover itself being snapped on Kanye’s iPhone on the way to the listening party:

Since the album’s release, that cover has spawned a meme, which only grew in popularity after Kanye tweeted a link to “Yenerator”, a widget for generating joke titles for the album. Between Yenerator and photoshop users on Twitter and Reddit, a bounty of new album covers have come online.

Some people theorized the album art was so slapdash because they already blew their budget on Daytona:

But some people wondered what would happen if they had gone with a Life of Pablo style cover:

And others made slight adjustments:

https://twitter.com/conyac420/status/1003400869109477382

https://twitter.com/SDLedge/status/1003056868355428354

Some of the replacement covers repurposed old Kanye quotes:

https://twitter.com/JewjewBeen/status/1003147999348850688

While some covers were unusually on point with a BoJack Horseman quote:

Well, that escalated quickly. Let’s go back to the fun ones:

https://twitter.com/emilyiliwys/status/1003197063180488705

https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1003707252677730305

https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/1003686907736481793

Some of the suggested replacement covers referenced other memes, like Jimmy Barnes the singing Australian/Scottish cowboy from the music video for “Big Enough” or updated privacy policies.

And finally, some people noticed this album cover was prophesied by South Park:

(Via r/Kanye and #Yenerator)