The Genius Story of Kanye West's Album Covers: A Visual Journey

[@qrain__]

is this the official final boss of kanye glazing?

[@N517]

That’s a legal requirement for any Ye fan

[@stsddsod]

Pin of Shame

[@fyeul]

Not really glazing. Its just the story behind every album cover. College Dropout is him being at the bottom, Late Registration is him being new to fame, Graduation is him really making it. 808s and Heartbreaks is obvious, there’s literally a broken heart with hands ripping it apart, symbolizing someone at fault breaking his heart. MBDTF is something I don’t really know how to explain. Yeezus I also don’t really know how to explain either. Watch The Throne is gold because this symbolizes prosperity and richness, which is exactly how his life was. The Life of Pablo is the choice between family and God and the night life and sex. Ye album cover is pretty simple. Kids See Ghosts doesnt have any meaning it just looks pretty cool. JESUS IS KING also is pretty obvious. Donda represents mourning and the idea that God doesn’t have an appearance, it doesn’t matter as long as God is there for you. Vultures is just him being horny lol

[@Burkery373]

how dare you blaspheme

[@w4976.]

@@fyeulyeezus is a sort of rebellion against modern music at the end of the CD era, which is why the cover is literally just the CD

[@Koblac]

Ty was on the vultures cover (just facing the wall)

[@wedmoke8856]

🤤

[@Idk22344]

​@@wedmoke8856🤨📸

[@bophouseroblox]

@@wedmoke8856BRO 😂

[@mmmisterslsl]

It's nice seeing the hiden side to ty

[@aropasa1732]

@@wedmoke8856Whaaaat

[@siddddD21]

why KSG is not mentioned? probably the best ye cover

[@patriciovallarino]

Genuine mistake while writing the script, but thanks for the comment, I’ll will make sure to get it perfect next time

[@siddddD21]

@@patriciovallarino overall it felt like a great looking and well researched video, loved the quality

[@supremkai1298]

Meaning wise it's not the best, design.....maybe, but I'd say THE best, is either TLOP or MBDTF....

[@Ozdestro]

not his best kids see ghost isn’t even a year album it’s self titled by kids see ghosts, the hip hop duo

[@siddddD21]

@@Ozdestro his best is a subjective answer and seems like a lot of people have that same opinion, by your logic YeNDolla album VULTURES 1 or Watch The Throne self titled album shouldn't be here as well

[@franca3068]

actually, the cover of DONDA is all black to symbolize mourning, wasn't just Kanye being lazy

[@bwaah0_0]

@Dor_atarit was to symbolize grief and the concept of god having no image

[@Edman9]

​@@bwaah0_0 Since it's also known that you don't need a image for God since you already know he's there

[@puppppppppppuuuuu6205]

It fit the sound of the album too, very stripped back. I genuinely don’t think he has a single bad cover on his main albums.

[@AinnRubiix]

Yeah this content creator really lazy fr he didn’t even explained or tried to explain vultures album cover

[@hollow_dbd]

@Dor_atar you act like he didn’t have 2 different album covers planned to be used at some point, why would he just do a black cover to be lazy when he had those options

[@zman1064]

I think the Donda album cover isn't entirely lazy. The album was obviously dedicated to his mother, like a funeral. What color is usually associated with or worn at funerals? Black.

[@SuperDuperSeb]

Go back to unturned lil bro

[@TyGuy943]

The black album cover represents the emptiness in his life

[@Whos-Epic]

I think it shows what you see in death; nothing

[@kinglucc6303]

Hey! It's you! Love your minecraft videos dude

[@maybelogan]

Crazy how different bros covers are from the beginning

[@shortvidworld]

Easily one of the best quality youtube videos ive seen in a minute

[@litteralytylerdurden]

watch video essays, some of them dont belong on yt because how good they are

[@trunestor]

​@@litteralytylerdurdenliteral slop content

[@morganvikings_]

Nah Ty was in the vultures cover, ye just tried to cover it up saying it was Bianca

[@patriciovallarino]

💀💀

[@Prospect-Edits]

Oh Damm didn’t notice that

[@Jaxolp45]

😍

[@cat86653]

What

[@bointerson]

this lowkey deserve more views, the editing and overall quality of the video is something i would expect from a 100k+ sub channel.

[@patriciovallarino]

Thank you man I really appreciate your comment, I’ll try to post more videos with this type of quality

[@johnlol8954]

@@patriciovallarinoyeah this was excellent

[@Declan_conlan]

Commenting to boost this up algorithm

[@diamond7775]

Great Video! I'm pretty sure Kanye said the Donda album cover was just black to symbolize his mourning and to also not distract the listener as a kind of tribute to his mom.

[@BoiZee]

I wish he used the dropout bear as a mascot for all his albums. It’s just be cool and iconic imo

[@mrq.1236]

I like the dropout bear being a symbol of Kanye’s early years. It’s like a childhood imaginary friend who slowly disappears as you get older. I think it’d lose all it’s magic if it was used for every cover

[@swagdawgyt]

Man, I genuinely thought this was like a fully produced video by a large youtuber. You deserve may more subscribers, awesome stuff!

[@Declan_conlan]

same

[@mateo6116]

Jesus is King was the first Kanye album I listened to in its entirety, mostly due to it being the most recent release at the time that I started listening to him. I was immediately struck with how similar its cover was to yeezus. Almost as if it was an epilogue, an evolution of his train of thought. It feels like JIK is the evolution of the latter, and I can't help but feel that it is a purposeful attempt from Kanye to demonstrate how he has changed and grown as a Christian, while remaining consistent in his diction, art, and musical talent.

[@Kemazir]

How do you only have 60 subs bro I thought this was a high production video made by a big channel due to the insane quality of this vid bro. Absolutely amazing

[@ninosantos1037]

15:00 Take a few steps back, close your eyes veeeery slowly and see the name of the album apears ye

[@definitelydoctorproctor]

I didn’t even look at the channel at first because I thought this was a multi-million view video by a channel with millions of subscribers. This production is wild.

[@TheKanyeGlazer]

Graduation is the most important ye cover to me as i really love the illustration of the bear

[@Ozdestro]

holy crap i fid not notice the subs until i read comments, this quality of content is actually insane dude, you’re gonna hit big for sure.

[@aropasa1732]

No way Donda took 1 minute to be explained.

[@harmoonwoomy1983]

yeah, its a good video but giving no explanation on the black donda cover sucks

[@braeden563]

old comment but i agree, op saying “it’s lazy” is like wack

[@HumanoidThing-xy6hf]

i thought i was tweaking when i saw 500 subscribers this channel deserves 100k+

[@XbHxnziUdhNHd7N_87y1NmL]

most underrated channel ever wtf keep it up

[@CharlieGeorge-ww6no]

Only 313 subscribers is crazy you deserve way more

[@jakandjoe3415]

I’ve always wondered how the donda cover was made. Was it just some black screen from Google or did someone just take a picture of the ground like idk

[@no-one-1]

You can go into any paint/image editing app and just set the image to black

[@DeOneAndOnly778]

Amazing Video! I was so shocked when I found out how small your channel is. This is potential!!!

[@qtYuppt]

amazing video. only critique I have is that ksg wasn't mentioned but still glad to have found this in my recommended. good job!

[@ashyshre]

underrated channel fr fr

[@shaunaksawant9040]

the biggest problem with kanye is that he knows hes a genius

[@EPMTUNES]

Great video! I would love to hear you talk about more classic album covers, your editing style really works with this style of video.

[@doistracos]

The colors used on the left side of the 808s cover resemble the "Saville code", a pallette created by cover designer Peter Saville and used on the records of the british band New Order. Since Kanye was inspired by New Order while making 808s and also inspired by Saville's artwork, I guess Ye was trying to pay homage to those artists.

[@JuniorRDZ04]

Vallario: explains the reasoning behind every album cover and how it came to be *sees the Donda album* Vallario: it was literally just a black square

[@MissAndDav]

Thank you for producing this video. I really enjoyed watching it. It was fascinating to know some of the background to Kanye's albums.

[@patriciovallarino]

Thanks bro I’ll make more of these 🤞

[@Yoxivinious]

this video explains the covers so well yet its so underrated thank you bro🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@patriciovallarino]

Thank you for watching I’m glad you liked the video :)

[@derpydogo365]

Dude what a well put together video I honestly looked down at the subscriber amount and expect like 100K+ great job man

[@patriciovallarino]

Thanks man hopefully one day

[@y7yk]

i don remember that part of the bound 2 music video at 11:34

[@willdouglas6554]

Fantastic video! Watched this while I drank my coffee this morning

[@JackMaglc]

Love this video. Could you do this but with Kendrick's covers?

[@patriciovallarino]

Working on it

[@natorlen]

jack

[@joche-cc4zy]

Amazing vid, if u want to know about Ye this is the perfect vid

[@Wooookly]

I was watching this video assuming it had at least 100k views, this is so well edited and made

[@no-one-1]

now it does

[@alejandroschejola258]

why tf is kanye so ripped at the beginning of the vid when he’s holding a cross in his hand 💀

[@PrettyboyAshtun]

808s and heartbreak is my favorite cause the cartoon like hands breaking the heart is fire

[@Declan_conlan]

Commenting to boost this up algorithm. Reply to this or comment something to help, this guy deserves more

[@LarryStrathman]

[@Declan_conlan]

@@LarryStrathman yooo

[@regah]

Why do people always skip Kids See Ghosts in their lists? Either way, great video

[@jamieagnad1918]

To be honest I kinda like "the lazy black cover" because I interpreted this as Donda's sudden death, and it felt surreal while listening to Jail while looking at the black screen, it kinda reminds me of you staring at your computer while listening to mp3 files that you're tampering with.

[@bbbbraxton]

Dude I thought this was a big channel. Only 520 subscribers?! Ur super talented dude.

[@monkeymoritz]

i'm from germany and i didn't know the german word "zeitgeist" is used in the english language too. btw great video!

[@Traay0]

19:35 thats not Ty on the right?

[@luiscarlosrico2304]

Missing ksg and mentioning that the full lenght film of mbdtf also featured a phoenix woman

[@luiscarlosrico2304]

Also it was not pope juan pablo it was saint pablo

[@YoupYoutube]

thought you had ATLEAST 175k subs with this editing and research and voice over hope you make it big bro

[@dane9398]

I've read several places that the bear (MBDTF) was a fanmade cover

[@justinarzola4584]

It's on the vinyl cover.

[@LukeL.77]

as your first video like this this is really good. hope you do more ye content like this

[@jimmyalpert5233]

Pretty great video. Thought you were a bigger channel. Keep it going with content like this and you will be

[@jayslump900]

bru i didnt it was a mustache and now i cant unsee it

[@pablovillegas425]

Keep them coming

[@igorfritz2973]

Amazing video ima share it to all my friends

[@Xtechyboi]

Bro I thought he wasn’t gonna cover Jesus is King because I thought it was just a picture of the vinyl, but bro bestowed some knowledge upon me

[@TemiloluwaKassim]

It might go over lots of people's heads, but an album cover is a very major allure to listening to an album. Consciously or otherwise, you tend to want to listen to albums with good or alluring covers

[@prokoploronz]

HOW DID YOU MISS THE BEST ALBUM COVER 😭😭😭😭

[@mccminers8050]

its worth noting the signifigance of "red tape" on the yeezus album cover, red tape as a metaphor means regulations or conformity to formal rules or standards and on the cover its litteraly red tape holding his music shut which is probobly the meaning

[@thesaucepd]

I think the choice of the hockey mask on vultures is to represent the new coming of the Kanye we love that was drowned in the controversy

[@noahpearson2190]

its intersting that if you just listened to his music, you would have no idea what kanye looks like.

[@kaledogg_68]

**Kanye watching this learning new info of his own album covers**

[@iissshh]

Amazing depictions of all these covers, really makes me think about the visuals. Can’t wait to see your deserved success bro 🙏🏼

[@GoyBenius_0901]

Funnily enough The Preist ended up as an alternate cover for the Vinyl pressing of the album. And Ty$ ended up on the Vultures 2 cover.

[@BrickWorks19]

How you only got 30 followers? This vid is great

[@Noah73827]

This is an amazing video, I hope you make more like it

[@huealexg3068]

Vultures 1 is kanye and bianca Vultures 2 is Ty$ holding a picture of his locked up brother

[@canager]

i really wish he kept the original vultures covers, the cover for volume 3 looked so sick

[@p.milani]

The 3° Pablo also is interpreted as Saint Paul

[@un_mexican0783]

this is just the video i wanted about kanye thanks you got a sub

[@Therealestcracker]

Kanye said that the reason for the cd was because it’s the end of the cd era

[@aintMVTTERR]

where is KSG?

[@tednever]

Thank you for this amazing video

[@S7EAK_]

This is great. You deserve more subscribers 💯

[@thequickeking6763]

though you had way more subs than this the video is such good quality no way you dont blow up

[@thequickeking6763]

thought*

[@patriciovallarino]

Thanks bro I’ll try to make more videos with this sort of quality

[@KanyeLoverBoy]

It took one day for this to be his most popular video💀

[@christofell]

There’s def a time traveler going back in time to get the Dropout Bear and put it in the gym because theres no way that’s just a coincidence

[@ksw9584]

Great video👍 you should make an update when vultures 2 and 3 releases and add kids see ghost for the completed version

[@lorenzodelillo5166]

you shouldve said why kanyes mask on the vultures 1 cover became black after like a day

[@barlrowo]

keep dropping more videos please

[@lucaswalter2966]

bro the quality of this video 👍

[@Alesch_Fonana]

Calling takashi murakami a japanese andy warhol is a crazy thing to say. Never the less nice video

[@thedzonelayer]

fr takashi murakami the japanese takashi murakami

[@r97neal]

The Yeezus Patrick Bateman cover goes hard af, how have I never seen that

[@The1Xking]

The preist one is official, it came with the ultimate edition for MBDTF vinyl, not sure if it’s on the normal edition but I have it as that photo (you can switch out the image in the middle on the cover)

[@will6374]

exactly what i was about to say

[@videosfullofintentions]

Good video you should make a series of this with different musicians like Tyler the creator, Frank ocean and Kid Cudi and Outkast

[@patriciovallarino]

I was thinking about it, thanks for the support :)

[@Sebas-zd8fy]

@@patriciovallarinodo ittt

[@videosfullofintentions]

@@patriciovallarino no problem

[@Furge]

only 127 subscribers?!?! remember me when ur popular

[@patriciovallarino]

I’ll remember you bro

[@NoscoperSans]

14:40 happy anniversary, ye!

[@Noaherms]

i feel like listening to yeezus is like watching tv static

[@JeDxZZZ]

The Jason Voorhees mask in the VULTURES 1 cover was removed 2 days after release, idk why he did that tho

[@CreakFreak]

That Prod. Genesis music in the background is 🔥

[@LukeL.77]

wish kanye would have the bear on just one more album. his final album at least

[@Iheartfootball47]

I personally think the Donda album cover was meant to represent how Ye felt life was meaningless and nothing mattered after his mom's death

[@ItzVSen]

The Priest and Bear come with the Vinly of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The Bear is my second favorite but it kinda gives me bad vibes when I look at it

[@Unitelous]

Can you do unreleased and old album covers?

[@jasoncokely1117]

whats the song during late registration i might just be tired. I got like 60k minutes on kanye im lost.

[@Espo2]

what song is in the background at 3:05

[@cleava959]

There is a cool story behind the 808s cover. It’s actually a balloon. Disappointed you didn’t mention it

[@medi7269]

Good video bro 👍 Kanye da 🐐 no 🧢

[@stevebikojnrdaking3115]

We still need the bear

[@gregwxst]

fire vid broski

[@coolguy27sewy]

How did this not get age restricted.