A$AP Rocky’s Testing is undoubtedly one of his most polarizing bodies of work to date. The rapper’s third studio album wasn’t necessarily received with open arms due to its experimental nature. 

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In a recent interview with Kerwin Frost, Rocky spoke on his project in hindsight but explained that he was expecting it to either be loved or hated without a middle ground in between. He did dish out on his feelings towards the project and compared it to Kanye West‘s Yeezus. On top of that, he revealed that Kanye West actually had a heavy hand in creating the album.

“It’s like you either love it or hate it. That’s one of those experiments where — that was like my Yeezus,” he said. “Ironically, Kanye helped me with that album… He came out to Berlin… Kanye, Virgil, Dave Chappelle, Mos Def,” he continued. “I was just working on my album and MGMT came in and they helped produce. They was just helping me curate the album.” Rocky then explained that Kanye had a hand on making “A$AP Forever” what it was. He also said that Kanye flew in the adidas team to Berlin during the process.

“My cult following, I think they get it, they love it. I don’t wanna put out nothing that’s fucking contemporary,” he said. “I feel like if I listen to what everybody tell me to do I’m gonna be fucking confused bro. I’ma do what I want and what feel right.”

Peep the clip at the 1:09:00 mark. 

While working for Kanye’s creative content company, Donda, as his art director, Joe Perez was involved with the creative conceptualization of the cover art for Kanye‘s album in 2013, which was not always named Yeezus. On Sunday, Perez, who has also designed for artists like Nick Minaj, Lil Wayne, and Pusha-T in the past, revealed the very different name Kanye originally chose for his sixth studio album. As pointed out by Genius, an extended version of this title was floating around on a Kanye West fan forum called “Kanye To The” back in 2013 before the album dropped under its ultimate name choice, Yeezus. “Ye album could always change titles but right now its either THANK GOD FOR DRUGS or BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO,” wrote an anonymous user, and shockingly, they ended up being right. Though Ye of course did end up changing titles, Perez’s latest Instagram posts confirm that Ye almost went with Thank God For Drugs.

On Sunday, Perez posted the original album artwork for Ye’s project, which features the infamous clear CD case concept that eventually made the cut on the Yeezus cover, but with some changes. The red tape had not yet been added, and the original title, written in blue crayon-imitation font with a white outline, is sprawled across the top. “Before naming the album Yeezus, the title was ‘Thank God For Drugs,'” Perez points out. He credits Kanye’s former collaborator, George Condo, who is responsible for the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy covers, for his artwork, as well as designer Virgil Abloh for his creative direction on the creation of the cover.

Kanye ultimately named the album Yeezus for many reasons, which he explained at the album’s listening party. “Simply put, West was my slave name and Yeezus is my god name,” he explains at the 3:05 mark. CyHi the Prynce, a G.O.O.D. Music artist, elaborated on the title to MTV. “A lot of people don’t know Yeezus if you break it down is: ‘Ye-Is-us,” he explained. “I’ll break it down to you because I don’t care. Ye will let you sit there and beat yourself up about it. He ain’t gonna do no interviews. He gonna be like, ‘Yeah it’s Yeezus and that’s what it’s called and y’all gotta deal with it.'” Kanye is likely quite glad he didn’t go with his first choice, since, these days, he is thanking God for getting him away from drugs. At the one year anniversary of his Sunday Service Choir, Kanye revealed that the gospel collective, “saved my life,” and “was the alternative to opioids.”