MUSIC.
Favorite Album Covers
By C-Lo and Mustafa
What
makes an album cover?
As
usual, C-lo and I get into our hip-hop daily conversation
usually during one of our commutes to work.
This particular
evening we sparked a conversation (per my conversation with Cedric
and Un) about Hip-Hop album covers and their impact on us, the
audience. We ran down a list of covers from "N.W.A.'s
- Straight out of Comptom"
to Too Live Crew's - As Nasty as I Wanna Be" and what
those album did to society, from "A
Tribe Called Quest's - Low End Theory" to
"Nas' - Illmatic" and
on and on.
For
me, I remember trying to figure out if I knew all the people on Midnight
Marauders album
cover, or how long it took me to realize that the Pharcyde was
taking a ride into a vagina, or how I hated to
see the "Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped" cover
but loved looking at it. These are some of our favorites; feel
free to give us
yours.
| Cedric
Umoja's top
five |
Mustafa's top
five |
Un's top
five |
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