Kanye West‘s upcoming My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album art is too spicy for retail stores, reports Kanye himself via Twitter:

“Yoooo they banned my album cover!!!!!” he Tweeted. “Banned in the USA!!!”

The artwork is very small, but features West as a nude, fanged-being with a green bottle in hand while a Caucasian winged-humanoid with wings and a polka-dotted tail straddles him.

Kanye’s Twitter rant continued, “They don’t want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix! So Nirvana can have a naked human being on they [sic] cover but I can’t have a PAINTING of a monster with no arms and a polka dot tail and wings.”

George Condo, the artist behind Kanye’s Power music video, created the new album cover.

Truth be told, the album cover is not really banned despite Kanye’s Twitter rants.

Popeater.com reports that Kanye’s record label (Universal Music Group’s Island Def Jam) instead “strongly urged” Kanye not to use the artwork, but was ultimately told that “if he wanted to do it, the label would stand behind him.”

But after discussions about his album possibly not being showcased at places like Walmart, Best Buy and Target due to the graphic artwork, it was Kanye who reconsidered.

“In all honesty … I really don’t be thinking about Wal-Mart when I make my music or album covers.” Kanye wrote. He continued, “I wanna sell albums but not at the expense of my true creativity.”

The album is scheduled to drop November 22.