Kanye West Lied About Walmart Banning ‘Fantasy’ Cover

At the beginning of the week, a fuming Kanye West took to his Twitter to rant about how Walmart didn’t know or appreciate real art, banning the cover art for his upcoming album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.”

Shortly after, he said he would be coming out with several covers for the same album, implying the Walmart ban had forced him to think of other options to get his music to his fans.

As MTV News points out, if anyone’s forcing Kanye to change the cover for his album, it’s not Walmart, for a very simple reason: the bosses there haven’t even seen the artwork, therefore they couldn’t possibly have banned it.

“We’re excited about Kanye West’s new album and we look forward to carrying it in our stores on November 22,” reads a Walmart statement on the so-called controversy.

A controversy that, it would seem, should not even exist in the first place.

“As always, it’s our standard practice to carry the edited parental advisory version. We did not reject the cover artwork and it was never presented to us to view,” the same statement mentions.

As we also informed you earlier this week, the artwork for the album represents a painting by painting by New York artist George Condo, depicting a grinning Kanye reclining on a sofa.

On top of him is a woman with no clothes, with a polka-dot tail and angel’s wings. Her head is not pictured. Kanye is holding a green bottle in his hand while staring straight into the eyes of whoever is looking at the photo.

“Yoooo they banned my album cover!!!!! Ima tweet it in a few...” Kanye started his Twitter rant by saying. He then went to argue that people didn’t know real art anymore, while promising he wouldn’t let that limit him as an artist.

“Banned in the USA!!! They don’t want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix! I know that cover just blew yall minds... I wish yall could see how hard I’m smiling right now!!!” the rapper said.

“In all honesty... I really don’t be thinking about Wal-Mart when I make my music or album covers #Kanyeshrug! I wanna sell albums but not at the expense of my true creativity,” he added.