You never know where you’ll find your Inspiration.
Morgan Wallen’s I’m The Problem dropped earlier this month and comes just a year after Morgan was arrested in Nashville for throwing a chair off the rooftop of Eric Church’s downtown bar, Chief’s.
During a recent interview with Zane Lowe, Morgan revealed that the album cover was inspired by a courtroom sketch that he saw while meeting with his attorney during his legal saga:
“I saw old school court drawings in there, and at the same time me and my team were talking about, What’s this artwork going to be?’ I’m like, ‘Ah, I’m not really sure.’ And I saw those old school court drawings and something just clicked in my head. I was like, ‘That might be cool.’”
Morgan said he looked into the idea and when he discovered no other artist had used their courtroom sketch, he decided to go for it.
“I just wanted to just pay a little bit of homage to that and make people say, ‘Hey, is that what that is?’ I feel like we toed the line of it pretty well, and I think it looks cool.”
This week, I’m The Problem is spending a second week at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 286K units (28K pure sales).