Pusha-T’s New Album Cover Is a Photo of Whitney Houston’s Bathroom

Push also addresses possible Drake diss on DAYTONA

Tomorrow, May 25, Pusha-T releases his new album DAYTONA (via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam). The album cover has now been revealed, via Push’s new online shop. The DAYTONA art is a photo of Whitney Houston’s bathroom, as Team Kanye Daily points out and a representative for Pusha T confirms. The photo, reportedly taken in 2006, was released to the public after Houston’s death in 2012.

In an interview with Angie Martinez on Power 105.1, Pusha revealed that the album cover was Kanye West’s idea. (Kanye produced the entire album.) He said Kanye changed the artwork at the last minute, and paid $85,000 out of his own pocket to license it.

Pusha-T has also broken down some of his DAYTONA lyrics in a new interview with Rob Markman for Genius’ “For the Record.” Markman reads some of Push’s “Infrared” lyrics, insinuating that they are aimed at Drake for allegedly using a ghostwriter (Quentin Miller). The song, which closes DAYTONA, includes the lines:


Ya hooks did it
The lyrics pennin’ equal to Trump’s winnin’
The bigger question is how the Russians did it
It was written like Nas
But it came from Quentin

After being read his lyrics, Push responds, “I feel like, everybody felt the ‘Two Birds, One Stone,’ you know, that was Pusha-T, Cudi aimed, so on and so forth. And that was fine. I heard it. I felt like, OK, I can’t have an argument about how real I am. Let’s not do that. If it’s rap, let’s let it be that. I mean, I’m just speaking my truth on this. I don’t think it’s anything disputable.” Watch below. (The “Infrared” discussion begins at 20:15.)

Back in October 2016, Drake released the song “Two Birds, One Stone,” which included lyrics that seemed to be aimed at Pusha-T, including, “But really it’s you with all the drug dealer stories/That’s gotta stop, though.”