For those of you who are still questioning how popular New York based artist, KAWS, has gotten in the last months just take a look at the new cover of the Kanye West album, 808’s and Heartbreak. If you go and pre-order the album now on iTunes you will notice that instead of the original cover that we saw a few weeks ago it is now a cover that features artwork by KAWS, which should not come as a surprise considering he is one of Kanye’s favorite artsits. 

One more photo after the jump…