Kanye West 'Yeezus' Cover Art & All Album Guest Appearances Including Chief Keef Confirmation [Video]

Kanye West revealed the cover art for his new album 'Yeezus,' and the controversial Chicago emcee, Chief Keef, reveals he'll be included in the new album, but the perpetually stoned rapper can't remember which song he's on.

Kanye West's new album, "Yeezus," is set to be released on June 18th. After initially quitting Twitter, West abruptly deleted all his previous tweets, and simply had the June 18th date as his only tweet. Which, as of this writing, he'd also deleted.

Initial speculation had the date as beau Kim Kardashian's due date for their child together. But now it's the confirmed date for Kanye's much-hyped seventh studio album.

Kanye has been in the news a lot over the last month--both for his new album dropping this summer--and for the celebrity orbit he now inhabits as the father Kim Kardashian's still-unborn child; although, it's pretty clear from his behavior that the media glare is not, currently, to his liking.

Kanye premiered one of the new songs from the album, "Black Slaves," via simultaneous projections covering 66 different buildings on May 17.

He then debuted two new songs from the album, "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves" during his performance on Saturday Night Live a couple weeks ago:

Only a week ago, Kim Kardashian tweeted out what looked like a pic of Kanye's cover art, but that was dispelled on Friday.

Before the weekend kicked off, Kanye, posted a pic to his website, KanyeWest.com, of the new album cover art.

It's genius in its simplicity, but the cover art is the absence of cover art, with just a blank CD case, and the piece of red tape with the shorthand written "Yeezus" covering it.

It's similar to Kim's tweet, since the red piece of tape was featured in her Instagram pic, but there is no actual cover aside from the red tape addendum.

It's surprising Kanye's minimalist art hasn't been tried before, but leave it to the Watch the Throne emcee to try something cutting edge.

There was also a leak of the track listing for the new album, which has yet to be confirmed or denied.

One of those tracks was called 'Boxed Out' featuring Ma$e, RZA and Chief Keef.

But we do know who will be appearing on the album, at least according to the Twitter research done by XXL Mag:

There are the rappers: Travi$ Scott, Young Chop, King L, Pusha T, RZA, Ma$e, and Tyler the Creator; dub-step hero, Skrillex; Grammy winner Frank Ocean; electronica's Jay Electronica, Hudson Mohawke an English singer-songwriter, James Blake; also, the contemporary darlings of new music so far in 2013, French tastemakers, Daft Punk.

On musician who has already confirmed he's featured, is Chicago emceee, Chief Keef. Keef has been in the news recently for getting busted smoking cannabis in Atlanta, and his short-lived beef with Katy Perry over Twitter.

But he confirmed to Fake Shore Drive, he's on a "Yeezus" track. The only problem? He can't remember which one. The perpetually stoned Chicago emceee forgot the name saying "I am on the song called...I forgot. I forgot what the song is called, but it is a hot song."

So are you as excited for "Yeezus" as eveyone else seems to be?

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