Hurry Tomorrow follows in line with The Weeknd’s past portrait style cover art (2015’s Beauty Behind The Madness, 2016’s Starboy, 2020’s After Hours, and 2022’s Dawn FM).

In 1984, Basquiat designed the cover for San Francisco punk band The Offs’s First Record (it was also their only record). He was paid $500 for his effort, which bears his abstract, minimalist hand.

Hurry Up Tomorrow follows The Weeknd’s critically acclaimed Dawn FM, which dropped in January 2022. That album was a bold departure from his earlier, darker R&B albums like Trilogy and Kiss Land ...