White Pony - Album Name and Cover

Album Name and Cover

White Pony is street slang for cocaine. However, there are more likely meanings for the album name, including an obvious sexual reference:

"There's a lot of different references for White Pony. One of them is a cocaine reference and there's a lot of stuff... have you ever heard stuff like in dream books that if you dream about a white pony then you're having a sexual dream? There's a lot of stuff that kinda goes around it. And there's an old song (that goes) 'ride the white horse.' That's obviously a drug reference song." Crystal methamphetamine use is commonly referred to as "riding the white pony."

The original gray cover for White Pony is rumored to have been inspired by the album cover for the Hum album, You'd Prefer an Astronaut, of which Chino stated in an interview "...it's where Deftones get a big part of our influence from, tone-wise." and "Deftones were definitely influenced by it." The art mimics the mostly empty one color cover, with Hum's zebra in the lower left corner being replaced by a pony in the lower right of the Deftones album.