It’s been a rough few months for Young Thug . His latest album, Uy Scuti , was met with a fairly lukewarm reception from fans, despite being his first project since his release from jail last year after spending over 900 days behind bars. You can see it in his demeanor in interviews, where the toll of incarceration and public scrutiny reads clearly on his face. Before the album dropped, a deluge of leaked prison phone calls exposing his feelings about everything from Gunna to Drake spread like wildfire on social media.

Even so, Uy Scuti does feature glimmers of Thug’s brilliance, most notably in its album art, which is as peak Thug as you can get. The cover features a close-up portrait of Thug transformed into a white person. On Instagram, he shared the image with the caption

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