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The Life Of Pablo (T.L.O.P) Album Cover Parodies are a series of parody artworks based on the cover art of American hip hop artist Kanye West's seventh studio album The Life Of Pablo. Upon its unveiling via Twitter on February 11th, 2016, the album cover art instantly went viral and became a popular subject of photoshopped parodies among his fans.

Origin

On February 11th, 2016, Kanye West tweeted an image of a minimalist-style illustration by Peter De Potter that was being considered to be featured as the cover art for his highly anticipated seventh studio album The Life of Pablo, which was officially released online via Tidal on the next day (shown below, left). Later that same day, West released a revised version of the previous cover art^[2] (shown below, right) and asked his followers which one they thought was better. Within the first week of West's tweets, his first album cover post garnered over 55,100 retweets and 75,100 likes, while the second version received 20,100 retweets and 37,400 likes.

Spread

Shortly after West unveiled the original version of the cover art for his upcoming album, many Internet users began creating their own versions and sharing them on Twitter^[4] and Tumblr.^[14] By the day of the album's release, several web-based TLOP cover art generators had been launched for people to easily create and share their own versions, including TLOPCover.com^[5], ThePablo.life^[6] and TheLifeofPablol.com.^[7] During the hours leading up to the release of The Life Of Pablo on February 12th, numerous music review blogs^{[3][8][11][12]} and entertainment news sites^[9][13] began reporting on the viral parody phenomenon that had been inspired by the TLOP cover art as part of their general coverage of West's long-delayed album release.

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