Billie Joe Armstrong Loves Rapper Vince Staples' Dookie-Inspired Album Artwork

Last week, North Long Beach rapper and actor Vince Staples unveiled his third record, FM!, and the artwork looked strangely familiar to a certain legendary 1994 album…

Paying tribute to Green Day's 20-million-selling breakthrough Dookie in a pretty badass way, FM! clearly takes a whole load of visual ideas from the pop-punks' third record while switching it up (most notably the colour change, of course). And Billie Joe Armstrong himself has seen the artwork, writing on Instagram: "I love this."

The artist behind Dookie, East Bay artist and musician Richie Bucher, is also apparently a fan of the homage, telling KQED Arts: "I think it's really cool! I just looked at it a little more closely, and I gotta say, I love stuff like this. It seems really clever and respectful. I have absolutely nothing bad to say about it – I think it's really cool."

Here's the original artwork:

And here's Vince Staples' take:

Aaaaaaand here's BJA's thoughts:

Cool.

Seems like as good an excuse as any, then, to blast this at full volume:

Dookie forever.