Days after Whitney Houston's second cousin Damon Elliot blasted Pusha T's Daytona album cover art for being 'disgusting' and 'tacky,' the late pop diva's nephew has voiced his overwhelming approval.
Producer Kanye West paid $85K for the National Enquirer photograph of the seven-time Grammy winner's drug-filled Atlanta bathroom circa 2006 and Gary Michael Houston said he 'got the correlation.'
'I get it. I get the correlation (sans my aunt but the photo itself), and I actually love the album,' the 31-year-old son of Michael Houston told in a statement Saturday.
'The bigger issue is deeper and one that most people (including folks who claim to be so heartbroken and traumatized by the usage of the photo) choose to conveniently ignore and bypass.'
Gary - who Bobbi Kristina's husband Nick Gordon in 2014 - noted the real outrage was the mystery family member 'who violated the trust of my aunt by taking the photo and selling it to tabloids.'
'[That's] more of a travesty to me. People should research that, because whoever exposed it are the people who violated her trust, mistreated her, and who should ultimately be held accountable for contributing to circumstances surrounding her demise,' Houston continued.
'[Kanye] nor Push are the reasons this is a topic. The conniving people who leaked it are...I think I speak for rest of my immediate family when I say that we are focused on way more important things than an old photo.'
As for the Bronx-born 41-year-old rapper, he told on Thursday that his controversial Daytona cover 'definitely does match the energy of my album.'
'I feel like the cover represents an organized chaos,' Pusha (born Terrence Thornton) explained.
'The energy of the album is a bit chaotic, but it’s all in place. Looking at that cover, I'm sure whoever frequents that bathroom or area knew whatever they wanted to find and knew where it was.'
that same day, the three-time Grammy nominee gave 'co-executive producer Kim Kardashian West' a shout out on for letting him 'steal' her 40-year-old third husband to 'make this masterpiece.'
Whitney accidentally drowned, aged 48, in the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton Hotel suite in 2012 after consuming drugs including cocaine, Xanax, Benadryl, cannabis, and Flexeril.
Fans can catch more of the four-octave mezzo-soprano in Kevin Macdonald's fully-authorized documentary Whitney, which hits UK/US theaters on July 8.