On Wednesday (May 23), Pusha T fired a flurry of tweets regarding his hotly anticipated album Daytona -- formerly known as King Push -- and how this project was strictly for his "family." The seven-track album, which features Kanye West and Rick Ross, has once again encountered another alteration: a new album cover. In an interview with Angie Martinez earlier this week, Pusha explained how Kanye called him late Tuesday night and requested that he change the album cover. "[Kanye West] changed my artwork last night at 1 a.m. because he wasn't feelin' it," he says. Later, Pusha goes on to explain how Kanye originally enlisted a photographer to handle the cover art but later had a change of heart. "The [original] artwork was pictures that we all agreed on," explains Pusha. "He picked this photographer, we took these pictures [...] We picked the pictures. Great. We love it. Everything is good."<doc-sep>“Why would he [put] that on his album cover?” the Roxbury native and former New Edition singer told Rolling Stone . “That’s really disgusting that he would do that. That’s in really bad taste.” Maybe you’ve read that the cover of Pusha-T ’s new album “Daytona” is a picture of Whitney Houston ’s bathroom counter littered with the residue of her hard-partying lifestyle. Houston’s ex-husband Bobby Brown (inset) did, and he’s upset about it. Pusha-T posted the image on Instagram — caption: “I finally got my album art” — and many people protested. Word is Kanye West, who produced the LP, paid $85,000 to license the photo, which was taken in the bathroom of Houston’s house in Atlanta in 2006. (Houston was found dead, submerged in a bathtub, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in 2012.) Advertisement “Something should happen to Kanye,” Brown said. “He’s already crazy. I knew that when I first met him. Now he’s pushing the bar a little bit. He needs somebody to slap him up or something. And I’m just the person to do it.” Whitney Houston’s estate issued a statement saying it is “extremely disappointed in Kanye’s choice” for the album cover. “Even in Whitney’s death, we see that no one is exempt from the harsh realities of the world,” Houston’s estate said. But Houston’s nephew defended Pusha-T. “Not to be divisive, but I’m of a different mindset when it comes to situations like this,” Gary Michael Houston, the son of Houston’s older brother Michael, said in a statement. “Bottom line — they are artists and in this day and age, if they can afford to pay someone for usage of that photograph in order to convey a visual message to accompany their musicianship . . . then so be it.” Whitney Houston is the subject of a new documentary, titled simply “Whitney,” coming out July 6. And Brown is the subject of a two-part biopic, titled “The Bobby Brown Story,” due out this fall on BET.<doc-sep>The estate of the late Whitney Houston has said it is "extremely disappointed" in Kanye West's decision to use a photo of the singer's drug-filled bathroom as the cover for Pusha T's new album Daytona. West, who produced the new album from the Virginia rapper, paid a reported $85,000 to obtain the rights to the controversial picture, according to ET, in a last minute decision made right before the album was released. The photo was allegedly taken by a family member in 2006, when Houston was reportedly in the midst of a serious drug addiction - a few years before she died on 11 February 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. Her death was attributed to an accidental drowning in a bathtub, combined with drug use. "This is what people need to see to go along with this music, I'mma pay for dat," Kanye apparently told Pusha. However, Houston's estate has responded after considerable backlash from critics at the decision to use the photo as album artwork. "Even in Whitney's death, we see that no one is exempt from the harsh realities of the world," they added. Richest musicians in UK and Ireland Show all 9 1 /9 Richest musicians in UK and Ireland Richest musicians in UK and Ireland Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell Estimated wealth: £820m. Annual change: £40m PA Richest musicians in UK and Ireland Lord Lloyd-Webber Estimated wealth: £740m. Annual change: No change Getty Images Richest musicians in UK and Ireland Sir Elton John Estimated wealth: £300m. Annual change: Up £10m Getty Richest musicians in UK and Ireland Sir Mick Jagger Estimated wealth: £260m. Annual change: Up £10m Getty Richest musicians in UK and Ireland Keith Richards Estimated wealth: £245m. Annual change: Up £10m AP Richest musicians in UK and Ireland Olivia and Dhani Harrison Estimated wealth: £230m. 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Bobby Brown has hit out at Kanye West for using a photograph of Whitney Houston’s bathroom for Pusha-T’s album artwork for ‘Daytona’. The singer was married to Houston from 1992 to 2007. It was originally published by the National Enquirer – six years before Whitney’s death from accidental drowning aged 48. West apparently paid $85,000 for the image – which was taken by Whitney’s sister-in-law Tina Brown in 2006 – which shows the room featuring a number of drugs. You can view the album cover below. ”Why would he post that on his album cover? That’s really disgusting that he would do that,” Brown told Rolling Stone. ”That’s in really bad taste. Something should happen to Kanye. He’s already crazy. I knew that when I first met him. Now he’s pushing the bar a little bit. He needs somebody to slap him up or something. And I’m just the person to do it.” https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/999771408258318338 Pusha-T previously said that the Daytona cover was originally going to be a different image. But West, who executive produced the album, made a late decision to change the artwork to the picture of Houston’s bathroom and shared the cover image on Twitter. Houston’s estate also recently issued a statement saying it was “extremely disappointed in Kanye’s choice” for the album artwork. “Even in Whitney’s death, we see that no one is exempt from the harsh realities of the world,” Houston’s estate added. Yesterday (May 30), West revealed that he’s hosting a listening party for his new album today (May 31) in Wyoming.