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

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From the debut of the Dropout Bear on "The College Dropout" to the provocative imagery of "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" and the minimalist statement of "Yeezus," each cover is a reflection of Kanye's artistic evolution and cultural impact.
Join us as we delve into the artistic backgrounds, stories, and controversies surrounding Kanye's album covers, featuring insights from photographers, designers, and collaborators. Discover how each cover encapsulates the themes, emotions, and ambitions of Kanye's groundbreaking music.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:34 The college dropout
2:25 Late registration
3:43 Graduation
5:19 808s & heartbreak
7:00 Mbdtf
9:33 Watch the throne
10:24 Yeezus
12:08 Tlop
13:44 Ye
15:15 Jesus is King
16:25 Donda
17:39 Vultures 1
19:38 Outro

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@qrain__ Ай бұрын

is this the official final boss of kanye glazing?

@N517 29 күн бұрын

That’s a legal requirement for any Ye fan

@stsddsod 29 күн бұрын

Pin of Shame

@fyeul 24 күн бұрын

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

@Koblac Ай бұрын

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

@wedmoke8856 Ай бұрын

🤤

@ViNiger420 Ай бұрын

@@wedmoke8856🤨📸

@ndacheerroblox Ай бұрын

@@wedmoke8856BRO 😂

@mmmisterslsl Ай бұрын

It's nice seeing the hiden side to ty

@aropasa1732 Ай бұрын

@@wedmoke8856Whaaaat

@siddddD21 Ай бұрын

why KSG is not mentioned? probably the best ye cover

@patriciovallarino Ай бұрын

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

@siddddD21 Ай бұрын

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

@supremkai1298 Ай бұрын

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

@Ozdestro Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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

@Dor_atar Ай бұрын

they all say that

@bwaah0_0 Ай бұрын

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

@Edman9 Ай бұрын

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

@puppppppppppuuuuu6205 Ай бұрын

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 25 күн бұрын

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

@Dvrk52 Ай бұрын

Crazy how different bros covers are from the beginning

@morganvikings_ Ай бұрын

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

@patriciovallarino Ай бұрын

💀💀

@Prospect-Edits Ай бұрын

Oh Damm didn’t notice that

@Jaxolp45 Ай бұрын

😍

@cat86653 26 күн бұрын

What

@shortvidworld9547 Ай бұрын

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

@litteralytylerdurden Ай бұрын

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

@bointerson Ай бұрын

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

@patriciovallarino Ай бұрын

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

@johnlol8954 Ай бұрын

@@patriciovallarinoyeah this was excellent

@Declan_conlan Ай бұрын

Commenting to boost this up algorithm

@aropasa1732 Ай бұрын

No way Donda took 1 minute to be explained.

@harmoonwoomy1983 25 күн бұрын

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

@KanyeGlazer2009 Ай бұрын

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

@diamond7775 Ай бұрын

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.

@swagdawgyt Ай бұрын

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

@Declan_conlan Ай бұрын

same

@ndacheerroblox Ай бұрын

0:59 i GYATT something in my eye

@kaledogg68 Ай бұрын

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

@JackMaglc Ай бұрын

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

@patriciovallarino Ай бұрын

Working on it

@Kemazir Ай бұрын

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

@DeOneAndOnly778 Ай бұрын

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

@Ozdestro Ай бұрын

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.

@silent_clubstepX Ай бұрын

most underrated channel ever wtf keep it up

@EPMTUNES 12 күн бұрын

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

@willdouglas6554 Ай бұрын

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

@Wooookly Ай бұрын

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

@lorenzodelillo5166 Ай бұрын

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

@ashyshre Ай бұрын

underrated channel fr fr

@Noah73827 Ай бұрын

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

@iissshh 29 күн бұрын

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

@derpydogo365 Ай бұрын

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

@patriciovallarino Ай бұрын

Thanks man hopefully one day

@qtYuppt Ай бұрын

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

@definitelydoctorproctor 2 күн бұрын

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.

@barlrowo Ай бұрын

keep dropping more videos please

@LukeL.77 Ай бұрын

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

@HumanoidThing-xy6hf 18 күн бұрын

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

@ksw9584 Ай бұрын

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

@bloxivinious Ай бұрын

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

@patriciovallarino Ай бұрын

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

@CharlieGeorge-ww6no Ай бұрын

Only 313 subscribers is crazy you deserve way more

@jimmyalpert5233 Ай бұрын

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

@S7EAK_ Ай бұрын

This is great. You deserve more subscribers 💯

@tednever Ай бұрын

Thank you for this amazing video

@bbbbraxton 18 күн бұрын

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

@canager Ай бұрын

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

@YoupYoutube Ай бұрын

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

@un_mexican0783 Ай бұрын

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

@MissAndDav Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Thanks bro I’ll make more of these 🤞

@kesiyeogoun Ай бұрын

PLEASE make more videos like this

@joche-cc4zy Ай бұрын

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

@monkeymoritz Ай бұрын

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

@Creaky_Freaky Ай бұрын

That Prod. Genesis music in the background is 🔥

@BoiZee 11 күн бұрын

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

@lucidr6 Ай бұрын

nice video man earned a sub!!

@gregwxst Ай бұрын

fire vid broski

@NoscoperSans 11 күн бұрын

14:40 happy anniversary, ye!

@KanyeLoverBoy Ай бұрын

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

@mateo6116 Ай бұрын

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.

@fmdasani Ай бұрын

Fire vid, should have way more views

@ninosantos1037 22 күн бұрын

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

@user-jw6yo6yr9i 27 күн бұрын

Bro is definitely underated

@fontana8806 Ай бұрын

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

@thesaucepd 29 күн бұрын

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

@Declan_conlan Ай бұрын

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

@LarryStrathman 23 күн бұрын

@jasoncokely1117 Ай бұрын

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

@stevebikojnrdaking3115 28 күн бұрын

We still need the bear

@BrickWorks19 Ай бұрын

How you only got 30 followers? This vid is great

@ItzVSen Ай бұрын

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

@The_Alien_Himself 19 күн бұрын

3:49 where you get this live clip from

@demoniclemon9897 Ай бұрын

No ksg is outrageous but the vid still tuff

@nextideathink Ай бұрын

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

@patriciovallarino Ай бұрын

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

@Sebas-zd8fy Ай бұрын

@@patriciovallarinodo ittt

@nextideathink Ай бұрын

@@patriciovallarino no problem

@everythingye Ай бұрын

amazing vid bro, imma use some facts for my upcomming video 😘😘

@p.milani Ай бұрын

The 3° Pablo also is interpreted as Saint Paul

@doistracos Ай бұрын

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.

@FireflameGames 23 күн бұрын

what was the song playing during late registration?

@lucaswalter2966 Ай бұрын

bro the quality of this video 👍

@wxtxf 15 күн бұрын

The first donda album cover was so cool

@LukeL.77 Ай бұрын

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

@medi7269 Ай бұрын

Good video bro 👍 Kanye da 🐐 no 🧢

@echonomy. Ай бұрын

How do you not have more subs bro

@joelthebigman5160 Ай бұрын

good video kind of felt like an abrupt end maybe a recap pargraph or something to sum up his career

@JeDxZZZ Ай бұрын

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

@jakandjoe3415 14 күн бұрын

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

@vjr 16 күн бұрын

From where is this remix/ live version at 3:49?

@pedrofigueiredo1914 Ай бұрын

Goated

@y7yk 25 күн бұрын

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

@IIIofHearts Ай бұрын

what song was playing during graduation?

@prokoploronz Ай бұрын

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

@oldbenkenobi3280 Ай бұрын

I thought it was Saint Paul, for the third Pablo

@luiscarlosrico2304 Ай бұрын

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

@luiscarlosrico2304 Ай бұрын

Also it was not pope juan pablo it was saint pablo

@jasancona Ай бұрын

Great video

@coolguy27sewy Ай бұрын

How did this not get age restricted.

@r97neal 14 күн бұрын

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

@inakideizaurieta7336 Ай бұрын

The goat 💪🔥

@LifeLinnee Ай бұрын

Good vid

@dane9398 Ай бұрын

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

@justinarzola4584 Ай бұрын

It's on the vinyl cover.

@khonsu_YT Ай бұрын

19 subscribers, only? goddamn

@MatthieuBesdeBerc 12 күн бұрын

What's the song at 2:57 please ?

@Dontmethwithamerica Ай бұрын

nice video

@TheMcSoup 10 күн бұрын

surprised yandhi or any unreleased cover was mentioned

@noahpearson2190 15 күн бұрын

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

@Dolphins5648 18 күн бұрын

17:46 what is this song called

@thequickeking6763 Ай бұрын

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

@thequickeking6763 Ай бұрын

thought*

@patriciovallarino Ай бұрын

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

@shaunaksawant9040 Ай бұрын

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

@Adudoky Ай бұрын

Guest one genius that aint crazy