Blank Face: ScHoolboy Q isn't using the Jordan crying face meme for his new album cover
The record will be released in July
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ScHoolboy Q previously tweeted that the artwork for his latest album Blank Face would feature that widely circulated meme of Michael Jordan crying during his hall of fame speech. On Thursday, Q revealed the actual artwork for his follow up to 2014's Oxymoron.
Following the hype of his recent Kanye West collaboration on “THat Part,” Q excited fans on Tuesday and Wednesday by pump faking the following album covers: one featuring MJ along with a deluxe version featuring the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The South Central rapper predictably set the Internet on fire with the announcement, leaving fans clowning over the black and white image of a faceless Jordan presented as a work of art. However, Q says he was trolling everyone all along.
“The fact that people think that I would actually use that as my album cover is funny,” Q told TMZ Live. “So I just trolled the people because as soon as I put it on my twitter everybody just said, 'ScHoolboy Q album cover,' 'ScHoolboy Q art.' But they defeated the purpose of what I was doing, I have a concept behind it. Late last night I put out the Donald Trump cover, but I had a series of covers I was gonna put out.”
At one point, Q admits he first considered using the meme to dress the album. "I called my managers and said, 'Do you think we can get this cleared?' Then they were like, 'Nah, I doubt we can do it.'”
Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony Tiffith teased the album back in March, promising a new Schoolboy Q record was in the works.
Blank Face will be released on July 8.
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