(RTTNews) - Walmart has countered charges by Kanye West that the megastore was planning on banning his new album from their stores due to its album cover. The cover for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy depicts two naked monsters having sex.

In a statement to Contactmusic, Walmart explains that it has not banned the album. Officials for the company say: "We're excited about Kanye West's new album and we look forward to carrying it in our stores on November 22."

"As always, it's our standard practice to carry the edited parental advisory version," the statement adds. "We did not reject the cover artwork and it was never presented to us to view."

According to a Twitter rant by West, however, the album was pulled from American shelves: "Yoooo they banned my album cover!!!!! Banned in the USA!!! They don't want me chilling on the couch with my Phoenix!"

He went on to say: "So Nirvana can have a naked human being on their cover, but I can't have a PAINTING of a monster with no arms and a polka dot tail and wings."

The artwork features a painting of West's character Griffin from his short film Runaway. Griffin is naked and in a coital position with the other character, Phoenix, who in the film has fallen to Earth.

Mobinga:

Kanye is Gay

eldee:

As usual, Kanye prolly just did it to get everyone talking bout his new album . . . genius.