Here's a look at 7 hip-hop album covers that were never used below ... red woman with her hair flowing in the wind. The latter was painted by late artist Louise Bourgeois. Kanye ended up using ...

The woman in body paint was eye-catching, sexy and Afrocentric, capturing the essence not only of A Tribe Called Quest, but of hip hop as a genre. Today she is a timeless logo for hip hop. A good ...

And in Hip-Hop in particular, crate diggers have elevated cover art to ... goes that Q-Tip wanted a painted woman, akin to something you would find on an Ohio Players album cover [https ...

“Historically, artists painted the court and the aristocracy ... So ahead of BUA's book launch, we got him to run down his five favorite illustrated hip-hop album covers. “I think this album cover was ...

That’s because rather than eating paint, like you did as a first and second grader, he draws classic hip hop (and occasionally punk) album covers, including Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, Enter the ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this feature. When it comes to the essence of an album, oftentimes the cover art is just as captivating as the music. Since the popularization of hip-hop ...