Kanye’s music scrapes sentimentality and aggressiveness together like sandpaper, and he uses his grooves to unleash this tornado that spins with the zeitgeist of the times.
It’s also occasionally a place where you experience the rigid dogma of the human race. It’s a place of dreams, of righteousness, a place to have fun. In a later interview with Entertainment Weekly, Murakami explained the concept for the album cover: “The cover is based on Kanye’s theme of student life.