Kanye West’s seventh album is set to drop on Thursday, and if you thought it was called “Swish,” “Waves,” or “So Help Me God,” you’re way behind the times.
As of Monday night, Yeezy changed the title name again to “T.L.O.P.” and opened the Twitter floodgates by inviting fans to guess what it stood for. The rapper also offered a free pair of Yeezys (his shoe line for Adidas) and tickets to the Season 3 event at Madison Square Garden on Thursday to anyone who guessed correctly.
So what could it be? Here’s our list of five possibilities.
“The Last Omniscient Playa”
Not only does that sound pretty good, it’s exactly the sort of thing Kanye would say about himself in real life. And lest we forget, a highlight of his 2013 album “Yeezus” was called “I Am a God.” Odds-on favorite.
“The Love of Pussies”
A simultaneous salute to the cats of the internet, and a defense of Ted Cruz following Monday’s verbal attack by Donald Trump. But definitely not a reference to anything else. Definitely.
“The Lost, Outcast Pony”
Yeezy is now the proud parent of two children, Saint and North. So it’s inevitable that he’ll get into the usual celebrity activity of children’s book writing at some point. Maybe the new album is based on the story of a brave young pony, struggling for creative acceptance in the small-minded world of musically limited hoofed mammals. And who also designs clothes.
“The Life of Pies”
“The Life of Pi” is a popular guess doing the rounds on social media. But rather than being a slightly dry tribute to Yann Martel’s celebrated book about an Indian boy’s epic, death-defying adventure across the oceans of the world, a far less obvious move would be a concept album based on a day in the life of the now-defunct Sara Lee factory in Downers Grove, Ill. Think of it as Kanye’s homage to the working men and women of the Midwest.
“There’s Lots of Possibilities”
Maybe it’s a meta-acronym that’s part of a larger art project . . . OH JUST RELEASE IT ALREADY, KANYE!