The INCREDIBLE Story of the KIDS SEE GHOSTS Cover Art

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FAQ/BIO: Kids See Ghosts is the eponymous debut studio album by American hip hop duo Kids See Ghosts, composed of rapper/producers Kanye West and Kid Cudi. It was released on June 8, 2018, through Wicked Awesome Records and GOOD Music, and distributed by Def Jam Recordings. Prior to release, West and Cudi became collaborators in 2008, and expressed a desire to record a collaborative album. However, one had not materialized and the duo experienced brief fallings-out in 2013 and 2016. After reuniting a year later, the first studio sessions for the album began.
Guest contributions are included on Kids See Ghosts from Pusha T, Yasiin Bey, and Ty Dolla Sign, as well as a vocal sample of Louis Prima, who is credited posthumously as a featured artist. The duo mostly handled the production, with further contributions by Dot da Genius, Mike Dean, Evan Mast, Plain Pat, BoogzDaBeast, Benny Blanco, and Noah Goldstein, among others. The album was the third of five albums produced by West in Jackson Hole as a part of the "Wyoming Sessions", each being released weekly in the summer of 2018. It succeeded the release of Pusha T's Daytona and West's Ye, while preceded the release of Nas' Nasir and Teyana Taylor's K.T.S.E.
Commentators noted the genre of Kids See Ghosts as a fusion of psychedelic and hip hop. The lyrical content includes references to mental health issues, which West had suffered from previously. The cover art was designed by Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami; he based it on Hokusai's landscape print series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. The album received widespread acclaim from music critics, who pointed out the chemistry of West and Cudi in praise, while some noted an improvement from West's past work. It was named as one of the best albums of 2018 by many publications, while ranked among decade-end lists for the 2010s of a few publications.
Kids See Ghosts debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, standing as West's 10th top-five album and Cudi's 6th top-five album in the United States. It also attained top-five positions in eight other countries, including Canada and Estonia. A number of the tracks charted in various countries, including "Reborn" and "4th Dimension". Kids See Ghosts have performed live for the album since release with performances at the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival and Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
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[@hidden7249]

i think the ksg cover is one of the covers that somehow looks exactly how the music sounds and I think that adds a lot to an album

[@whalenaidan6555]

Ever listen to bladee

[@cheekee8714]

@@whalenaidan6555 🤯

[@tychomayenburg7660]

@@whalenaidan6555 no i listen to good music

[@x33e3]

@@whalenaidan6555 hell no

[@d4niel711]

Flawless album in every aspect to me

[@horubeeevans]

I just really want to see a second kids see ghosts project

[@LikeFourOrFiveOtherNames]

Adolescents View Phantoms

[@gidd]

@@LikeFourOrFiveOtherNames lol

[@julianmax156]

Nah, it's a complete artwork that's embedding in history. A second part could ruin it or break the wholeness of the first album, i think

[@houstonm7635]

@@julianmax156 I feel like since they gave themself a title it’s bound to go on. Most collab tapes are just the 2 artists credited rather than giving themselves a name. Idk

[@ToastedHam10585]

pretty sure Cudi even said that Kanye really wanted to make a 2nd KSG right after they released it, but other then that nothing came of it

[@Volksgeist]

It's my first video in a month, run it up!

[@Spongebob12485]

Yay!

[@flameFM_]

yessirrr!!

[@superevilvillain]

Nice moustache my guy

[@relativeobserver5742]

Shave your moustache

[@milankroes2998]

Hey is your sub reddit down or something? cant join it for some reason

[@MOTM1234]

This album (like all of Cudi’s albums) holds a special place in my 💜

[@louijienapone5494]

Even speeding bullet?

[@shhs1227]

@@louijienapone5494 can't appreciate the highs fully without the lows

[@bohnemormone3057]

Same

[@MOTM1234]

@@louijienapone5494 I take them all into my heart

[@Volksgeist]

What should I cover next?

[@garrettfrick3830]

any beatles album tbh, for me it’d be sgt. peppers or abbey road

[@jerryjellybean9298]

king gizzard

[@Spongebob12485]

Plz cover Kanye's lie about a Lauryn Hill feature on his 2004 of 2005 album, thanks

[@elijahbryant1402]

omg plsss homogenic by björk

[@alexgrail5246]

Any kanye albums or good kid maad city

[@joshuavolpe282]

I gave my friend a KSG vinyl and he almost cried, it was a beautiful moment

[@x33e3]

I wanna be ur friend

[@JRMH-X]

This is easily one of my favorites album covers of all time, thank you for this video. I'm a big fan of learning the back story and history behind things I like

[@Schnapperlol_]

I saw the painting at 3:42 and thought that it resembled the style of graduation a lot, both Takashi Murakami and Kanye are geniuses in their field.

[@Whodnl]

0:02 It's already a Classic

[@czyh]

i got that one

[@melancholy4284]

i got that references

[@Whodnl]

@@czyh So happy you did

[@Whodnl]

@@czyh Happy you did

[@dibyajyotitarai518]

Mah maen Zed

[@SoundFieldPBS]

easily my fav volksgesit video! keep it up

[@MichaelTurner856]

Love your stuff whoever left this comment

[@treywindsor9873]

This is my favorite album cover of all time! Thanks for making a video on it !

[@AverageGamer_r]

Kids see ghosts is perfect in every aspect.

[@cbfire9987]

This is a really good concept for a series. Keep it up man!

[@oyugioyugi6018]

This a video I didn't even know I needed. Bless you Volksgeist. Bless you

[@SXINT]

• keep moving forward, keep moving forward, keep moving forward •

[@mychal_james_]

so much detail and research in this! You are appreciated

[@edwardgermakovski5438]

I love this series keeping doing more album cover stories

[@ILuvAxel]

I just want to tell you that you are a genius for the aspect ratio of your videos, it wasn’t until I showed this video to someone on my phone that I saw how beautiful the video looks on a phone screen.

[@Volksgeist]

Thank you!

[@KennyCSalmon]

Thanks for blessing us, King 🙌🏾

[@beardedbozo]

love this series so much!

[@saeedhatem27]

I couldn’t possibly imagine what might inspire someone to make those sculptures

[@JusAnsh]

Quality content as usual!

[@delriowav]

Im just glad we got one KSG project and that Cudi and Ye are on good terms💙

[@cultinwoods3993]

WYOMING SESSIONS is the most underrated Ye ERA! KSG best to come out of that though!

[@shayshayshayshayshayshayshay]

Daytona????

[@cultinwoods3993]

@@shayshayshayshayshayshayshay SECOND BEST! YE THIRD NAS NEXT AND TEYANA .. ALL OF EM SOLID CLASSICS IMO

[@shayshayshayshayshayshayshay]

@@cultinwoods3993 ye overrated as hell it’s got so much filler. Also you tryna say Nasir is a classic?

[@shayshayshayshayshayshayshay]

@@Nobody15534 i take it back, i did another couple listen throughs. I would say All Mine and Wouldn’t Leave are filler, the rest is good-great. Best song is Ghost Town, which doesn’t crack my top 10 Kanye songs.

[@roa.reyescortes298]

This album cover art its just amazing

[@Timefraction]

Phenomenal video, loved it

[@fadeadxo1328]

This project was a godsend

[@bigwilly1964]

This album (like all of Kanye’s albums) holds a special place in my 💜

[@BMDubsKid]

Really one of the greatest albums oat

[@galibthenomad]

Dope vid bro

[@kavetta]

Fun fact: this is volksgeists 100th video

[@seb.j]

ayeee those titles are so much better man

[@superq9941]

Sheesh I want another one

[@LuciTv_]

Question what happen to the everywhere at the end of time video?

[@Ciscoisvibing]

is anybody else’s video playing in portrait instead of landscape or was that how he made it ?

[@bigwilly1964]

Ur mom is how it’s made cuh

[@LILProductions]

it's a 1:1 aspect ratio like album covers are in

[@CerdurTV]

amazing video, i'll have to check out the rest of his art!

[@AndrewCarmy]

This album saved my life

[@Spongebob12485]

Let's Go! I missed u bro :)

[@im_Polyhedrons]

That square aspect ratio, was a great choice!

[@mr.nuclearnick5887]

This might sound weird but I love the aspect ratio of the video

[@p1nskii]

That’s a great essay!

[@moviewizard2034]

We really need a KSG 2😭

[@connor5053]

I love how the video is in the aspect ratio of an album cover, nice touch

[@youngjihadi]

The moment I saw the cover, it gave me flashbacks to that one episode of Sonic X that had the ghosts, same eyes and everything.

[@topang4304]

Upload more often ♨️♨️

[@JoshucaVA]

Woah, this is neat neat!

[@Tootruetootrue]

If my great grand dad came back to life he'd be proud Kanye,homie lives life to the max

[@relaxbro5605]

May I ask what mic you use? Sounds really crisp and clean!

[@RYSyoutube]

@@ravenitz ok

[@relaxbro5605]

@@ravenitz which one of the good ones?

[@geor349]

Great vid

[@twentytwenty8653]

love the writing on this one, encapsulated what i loved about the work

[@usablemusic]

Great video

[@oceansarchived]

KSG genuinely has the best album cover of all time

[@vintagelifts]

Kids see ghost cover is my favorite part of the album

[@jared6171]

I really like this aspect ratio

[@jvresol]

interestin screen ratio for this video

[@top_floor_boss]

it’s a classic

[@Its_musty]

Saw a parody of essay videos and damn it was accurate. Still loved this tho.

[@wanno7203]

Nice video but you could’ve mentioned the background was from the mount fiji series👍🏼

[@jeffreytrabanino8685]

The fact that your channel is putting out arguably the best most detailed content on this app and only has 300K subscribers is straight up disrespectful

[@khalon4993]

Probably would have more if his videos were formatted right

[@ZolaraticRBLX]

Cover story on the life of Pierre 4 please

[@tobycoombs5310]

Very good

[@wasii777]

what's the background instrumental

[@AD-pi9yq]

Where's the episode 1?

[@ye4us]

Kanye put hip-hop onto Murakami.

[@graceosullivan1367]

I was not expecting you to look like that

[@newpvnkpoet1778]

I'm not mad but I was building a business like exactly like Nebula w the spacey name and everything... Thank god I pushed back the launch date got damn...

[@freddyphoenix2872]

Let’s gooooooo

[@Burning_Brimstone]

what happend on the first episode?

[@SanguineThor]

Mmmm. MMMM! That aspect ratio

[@crazycalbro8271]

guys, hes philip!!!!

[@PoxneliusHubert]

I know not many people will agree with me but KSG is the greatest Hip Hop album of all time

[@stylezsmokinghotbbqs]

I posted a pic of this vinyl on my Instagram and my nan commented ‘you are in the wrong business joe’ she thinks I painted this album cover

[@jessetaconelli4456]

Why the square video?

[@froderickalabaster]

watch nebula blow up in like 3 years

[@JL-uq6qe]

7:45 this music!!! What is it?

[@WhaleManMan]

This dude looks like Narduwar's hipster son.

[@chay42069]

nice

[@sipntea]

GUYS DONT LOOK UP TAKASHI MURAKAMI STATUE

[@galibthenomad]

Wow,i searched it and wow

[@mikeegrund]

Why did you put the video in this aspect ratio?

[@BrokeniPadAir]

Isn’t it 1:1 like the album cover?

[@yuh170]

yessir

[@eichen97]

And Volky came late to the 4:3 joke, as expected.

[@egg1556]

one thousand

[@adrianbeltran4322]

Necesito esto en español

[@godofthecorn3011]

dude what is this aspect ratio

[@xcvxcvcxvxvcq]

Commenting for algo

[@hatehoes]

why da video square

[@SimplyWaffle]

Comment to please the algorithm

[@freddie2119]

Did Volksgeist delete half of his videos? Where’s the ‘Atheism is Dead’ video???? I saw it advertised on a Nine Inch Nails video he narrated...

[@kabindrapradhan840]

Would love to see one of these for Phoebe Bridgers punisher

[@kaurerik3944]

I realy liked the video, but I feel like you were maybe talking a littel bit to fast at some points ((imo)) or like trying to read the telepromter really quickly soooooo maybe try talking a bit slower next time.? Otherwise realy cool visuals and a interesting script.

[@suprisyt4192]

donda next please

[@mkat2325]

He seems pretty peeved about losing ww2 tbh

[@spuhgeddy2971]

Why does he look like Adam Friedland

[@Volksgeist]

I do not look like that greasy weirdo

[@spuhgeddy2971]

@@Volksgeist made my day, props to you

[@Volksgeist]

@@spuhgeddy2971 lol

[@helveticacalibri4036]

Aspect ratio is wack.

[@lilE712]

Can you do the flower boy cover🥺

[@fossekalleen]

Creeps me out how he looks "above me" in the camera. Should look more directly. Else, great video!!

[@featherycoffee1401]

Using your face as something to show while you talk but have no images to show without being slow or clunky or jarring? Great work. I don't really know a lot of terms but I hope you understand

[@Musiiq10]

That mustache is not it

[@neverm0tion]

why is this video square

[@stefanoraffo5096]

discord gang