When talking about album art in hip hop, most people will point to older album covers ... was an innovation in both sound and cover design. The dark cover features a woman with vibrant red and green ...

It’s one of the most iconic album covers in hip-hop history - a young Nas faded into the Queensbridge skyline. But how did ...

Jerry Barrow Art direction and design by Mike ... have been welcomed by Hip-Hop diehards, the chosen cover option was for the best.—Alvin aqua Blanco “That album cover was completely his ...

Hip-hop artists in particular have used album art to make a statement and ... Cole hired artist Kamau Haroon to design the cover, who described it as a “marriage of art and music.” ...

Drake's album art for Nothing Was ... the Nothing Was The Same cover also tapped into a tradition that's been an essential part of hip-hop since its beginning: graphic art. Visual art ...

Visuals have always played a prominent role in hip hop culture. In the early days, it was graffiti (as decreed by DJ Afrika Bambaataa); Since then, the music video and the album cover have ...

Dating back to its earliest ties to graffiti culture, the visual component has always played a large part in hip-hop culture. Today's album art mostly serves as thumbtacks for NahRight posts or ...

Here's a look at 7 hip-hop album covers that were never used ... He shared all the unique covers on Instagram. Varying in design and originality, there was a more stylized version of the original ...

So, why doesn’t hip-hop have many cover albums? Part of the answer may stem from rap music’s status as a young genre. Just 30 years ago, the culture as a whole was still fighting for its ...

No doubt, we love classic hip-hop album covers. Some of the best come from Cold Chillin' Records, Delicious Vinyl, B-Boy Records, and Fresh Records. All labels with deep history and a back catalog ...

However, no one can deny the richness of the genre’s albums. Join BLACK ENTERPRISE as we take you down memory lane with these eight historic hip-hop album covers.