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Friday, May 2, 2008

Top 10 Worst Rap Album Covers


Congratulations are in order to my man Big Bear for creating an utter masterpiece (click image above to enlarge). Not surprisingly, it made it to the top spot of a hip-hop top 10 list, although admittedly it faced some stiff competition from nine other special works of art. Here's the accompanying description for Doin Thangs:
"This cover manages to combine the overdone bling factor present in many rap album covers with the "What the fuck?" aspect present in so many of the top ten. This is how this album managed to make it to number one. There are so many things that are absurd on this cover that I cannot quite comprehend all of it. He has four bears smoking blunts and wearing jewelry while drinking cristal in front of a table filled with cigars, strawberries, assorted nuts, and fresh fish. Oh, and his name is in HONEY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Just in case you thought he was going light on the bear theme. The name of the album is baffling. "Doin Thangs" is such a broad description. What is he doing? THANGS. No time for apostrophes, Big Bear is on the move. I'm just relieved that he didn't forget to put a high number of lens flares onto the cover. Without it he might have lost the hook necessary to alert people that he is, in fact, doin thangs."
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