Desiigner’s “Tiimmy Turner” was initially teased as his 2016 XXL Freshman freestyle but has since evolved into one of the most talked-about singles of the year. And the single art, by former DONDA lead art director Joe Perez, is as intricate as Mike Dean’s production.

Perez designed the artwork for Desiigner’s debut mixtape, New English, too. Both works feature details one might not pick up on first sight.

The “Tiimmy Turner” artwork continues the rococo imagery and religious themes found in the artwork for his mixtape—but this piece juxtaposes those themes with a more secular concept of evolution.

“We have all these figurines kneeling in front of a weird wooden sculpture of a cavewoman and her baby that oddly resembles scenes from Mary and Jesus and kind of a Madonna pose, out of Christianity and the Bible,” he says. “I found it very funny and odd that I could find these figurines that were kneeling in a nativity scene and kneeling to this Darwinian sculpture. That was very much an evolutionary-based model that was posed like Mary and Jesus.”

Perez came up with the original idea after a drive down California’s Pacific Coast Highway. “It stems from an emotional response to listening to the song—not so much the lyrics, but how the piece overall sits with me on an emotional level,” Perez told Genius. “I found a shop off the PCH up near San Francisco that had rows and rows of everything you can imagine—far-out stuff from different time periods like the Victorian era that had a lot of history. Some of it wouldn’t be politically correct today.”

Once he collected the figurines, Perez and his brother photographed the pieces “run and gun” style, then Perez used Photoshop to piece everything together in collage form. “All of the chicken scratch and the handwriting—that’s all original,” he says. “I wrote it down on a pad and scanned it in and positioned it. Even though it only took 24 hours—16 hours was just straight computer work.”

But the “Tiimmy Turner” artwork has a dual meaning. “When you flip it over you have a few more hints,“ Perez says. "There’s a piece in front of the men that are kneeling—that’s the ‘see no evil.’ It’s a play off of religion and Darwinism; a lot of people just choose to not face the facts and look away, especially with things that are provocative in their mind and forces them to think.”

Perez attempted to shine light on more current events in the artwork’s message too. There’s a kitschy sculpture of a man in uniform holding a rifle upon closer inspection. “There’s a lot of that in the news right now and it’s a really heated topic all over the world,“ he says. "I played off of certain events that have happened here in the U.S. that rocked all of us and made us question society and how we view gun laws, police, and how they operate. I wanted to cement that and freeze it in time so when people look back at the artwork, they can pick out these little pieces and put it to the history of the time.”

But Perez stopped short of explaining the significance behind the number 79. “That’s the one thing where I’m like, ‘Nah I’m not gonna tell anybody,’” he says. “If you explain everything, all your tricks are out on the table.” While Perez declined to unveil its meaning, there’s been some speculation on Genius that it’s in reference to the 79 people killed by police in 2015 after allegedly “reaching for their waistband.”

“When you’re branding a new artist, the more that you can bring to the table as far as history and art knowledge and any kind of deeper message, it always helps them,“ Perez says. "It makes them more aware of what’s possible and what they could be doing. I like it when people are engaged with not just the music, but the art itself.”

You can read all of the lyrics to Desiigner’s “Tiimmy Turner” on Genius.