Tyga is getting ready to release a new sung-not-rapped album called Kyoto next month.
As its cover art, he has chosen a painting from the Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama: An image of a Japanese flag, except with a naked tiger lady in front of it. Here is that cover, in all its NSFW glory:
#KYOTO FEB 16 Pre order link in bio now.—- https://t.co/xtsPlfZZpE pic.twitter.com/Mu9b74O7k3
— T-Raww (@Tyga) January 22, 2018
Recently, a TMZ cameraman caught up with Tyga and asked about the cover. Tyga’s response: “It’s art, man. It’s art.” Also, on the charge that the cover constitutes “furry porn,” Tyga said, “I don’t know what that is.”
Here’s the video:
The best part of that video is when Tyler, The Creator drives by. Perhaps Tyga and Tyler were on their way to a meeting of some sort of secret bad-album-cover society.
This article was originally published by Stereogum.