#COMIN OUT HARD ALBUM COVER HOW TO#
Canibus - Can-I-Bus Yo gawd, shit is ultra-violet cause the shit is mad scientific nah mean? And… the letter is gold and platinum cause the style is mad royal, dig? In translatable terms, it basically means that Universal’s marketing department didn’t have the slightest clue of how to market a rapper that made Rich Boy look like he ain’t just run a 110m sprint in a 100m gym. Shockingly enough, AZ’s label (Noo Trybe) was behind this mess too. Is it any wonder that the both of them look a little confused? Rather than getting an artistic representation of one of the west coasts finest pimped-out, gangsta rap and quintessential summer albums, they instead end up looking like 2 extras from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Unfortunately, this means scaling the walls of a MS Paint-drawn skyscraper to get it. Luniz - Operation Stackola Stackola means cash, and the Luniz are robbing a bank to get some. Dre + collabo with Nas = sophomore slump, mediocre sales and being dropped from your record label? Yup, gotta be the album cover.
Likeable rapper + popular cameos with Monifah and D’Angelo + beats by Trackmasters, RZA and Dr. There is absolutely no point to this artwork, which is a shame because the album is dope. AZ – Pieces of a Man There are at least 3 “hmm, I wonder” facial expressions here, surely that’s worth something? Not to mention that they all seem to be randomly dispersed throughout the cover. Where’s Joe Cooley and Rodney-O when you need them? 7. Kurupt’s smooth “hmm, I wonder” pose makes the cover that much more intimidating.
Delores Tucker has managed to whip almost every soccer mom, conservative do-gooder and attention-starved female R&B washout into a frenzy and… this is what you come up with? Leather jackets and neon yellow writing? DANGEROUS. Dogg Pound - Dogg Food The East Coast-West Coast media-fueled conflict is boiling over thanks to the “New York, New York” video-shoot, C. The album being ill more than makes up for it though. They’ve just discovered Rick Moranis’ device from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and have decided to raid Suave House Records CEO Tony Draper’s Micro Machines collection and race them across his pool table while he’s playing. Eightball and MJG are on top of the world. Eightball and MJG – On Top of the World It’s arguably not as good as their debut effort, Comin’ Out Hard, but dammit, this album cover is genius. Somehow, this is Arrested Development’s fault. If 1987 was born-gawd Gucci prints and thick gold ropes, then ’92 was all about jazzy crayola styles, disjointed sentences and gnarly cut, paste and flip poses. Eric B and Rakim - Dont Sweat the Technique As Eric B and Rakim’s musical relationship began to fizzle out, so did the creativity of MCA’s Art Department. However, regardless of the great music on some of the following recordings, the covers still need to get put in check. It should go without saying that anything art-based is completely open to interpretation and perception. There wasn’t exactly an abundance of dope albums to come out of it, save for a few indie gems that only people who live in a 10 mile radius of the artist’s local swapmeet and trendy ‘omg-look-what-I-found’ revitalist types still really care for. Can the 2 co-exist? For starters, I’m gonna forego the whole pen and pixel movement. It’s fairly easy to compile a list of wack albums with wack covers to match, mainly because the list starts and finishes with this… … As an alternative, I wondered if it was possible to throw a list together of dope albums with shitty covers.
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