Cult Members Mad At Lil Uzi Vert’s Heaven’s Gate-Inspired Album Art

Some surviving members of Heaven’s Gate members are miffed by Lil Uzi Vert’s new album art.

Earlier this week, the rapper, 24, revealed the artwork for his upcoming album, “Eternal Atake,” which looks heavily inspired by the GeoCities-era visual aesthetic of the infamous cult.

While Uzi’s fans seemed delighted by the album cover, surviving members of Heaven’s Gate told Page Six they thought the rapper’s visual nod to Heaven’s Gate was “Not cool.”

Reached by email on Thursday, The Telah Foundation, the group’s de facto communication wing, let their annoyance be known.

“Lil Uzi Vert has to abide by common trademark and copyright laws. Especially in a matter as sensitive as this,” they wrote in a statement. “You can rage against social inequities but be cognizant of someone else’s intellectual property.”

“How [would] he feel if his songs were altered a bit by someone else and they made money off of it,” they continued, before concluding, “Not cool.”

A previous statement by the Telah Foundation, given to Genius earlier this week, threatened legal action.

Originally formed in San Diego in the mid-1970s, Heaven’s Gate gained worldwide notoriety in 1997, after several of the group’s members — 20 women and 19 men, ranging between the ages of 26 and 72 — participated in a mass suicide after the Comet Halle Bop passed the earth, in hopes of catching a ride on a spacecraft they believed was trailing the celestial object. Among the dead was the cult’s founder, Marshall Applewhite, whose face is currently Uzi’s Instagram avatar.

The Telah Foundation is made up of Heaven’s Gate members who were left behind to operate the cult’s website and answer any queries from interested parties.

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