Kanya West paid $85,000 to license a photo of Whitney Houston‘s drug-filled bathroom for the cover of Pusha-T’s new album “Daytona,” which was released today.
The image, which was taken in Houston’s Atlanta home in 2006 after an alleged drug binge, shows drugs and paraphernalia.
Pusha said that West, who produced the entire album, changed the artwork at the very last minute.
“He changed my artwork last night at 1 a.m. He wasn’t feeling it,” Pusha told Martinez. “The original artwork — it was pictures that we all agreed on. He picked the photographer, I took these pictures, I was like, ‘Yo, these are fresh.’ I picked all of these pictures out, he had a little edit to it, how he wanted the actual grading of the picture to look. Picked the picture, great, we look, boom, boom, boom, it’s good.”