Westreferenced the chain in a snarky tweet last night,writing, In all honesty …
I really dont be thinking about Wal-Mart when I make my music or album covers #Kanyeshrug!
But Walmart is doing its best to stay out of this story.

As always, its our standard practice to carry the edited parental advisory version.
We did not reject the cover artwork and it was never presented to us to view.
Note especially that last part: Walmart never even saw the cover artwork, let alone banning it.
So any internal Def Jam debate involving the store must have been a strictly hypothetical one.
sentenced to 11 more months in prison