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Can't believe there's no thread about these guys (let alone that the ILM search comes up with just measly four threads).

So... what's your opinion? Do you, like Mos Def, think their No Limit et al covers are warholian works of art, or just plain tacky rubbish? If you were a rapper, would you hire them to do your sleeve art?

Mind Taker, Sunday, 15 June 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Plain tacky rubbish" is the understatement of the week. Photoshop can be a wonderful tool when used correctly, but, in the employ of the untrained, can become a creative lethal weapon and an insult to visual design at all levels.

Paul Cox (paul cox), Sunday, 15 June 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd hire them to do my sleeve art regardless, that shit is classic

Millar (Millar), Sunday, 15 June 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

http://ffm713.skyrock.com/

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 17:08 (seventeen years ago)

U NOT MY LADY

eman, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

awes

stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:44 (seventeen years ago)

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1874384013_small_1.jpg

joe 40oz (deej), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:47 (seventeen years ago)

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1727428710_small.jpg

joe 40oz (deej), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:49 (seventeen years ago)

oh holy shit thx for that link

M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

this one is pretty awesome imo
http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1683046134_small.jpg

joe 40oz (deej), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1496387484_small.jpg

joe 40oz (deej), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1483686358.jpg

2001 release!

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 22:34 (seventeen years ago)

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1888977687_1.jpg

eman, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

"Wetblack" is my new favourite name for a group, btw.

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 23:00 (seventeen years ago)

has anyone of note outside rap circles (other than andre williams) ever had a cover done by these guys?

Suggest Bang Permalink (haitch), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 23:23 (seventeen years ago)

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1490763720_small.jpg

some of these are... a bit odd.

stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1490458230_small.jpg

wtf/lol

stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:52 (seventeen years ago)

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1490455170_small.jpg

stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:55 (seventeen years ago)

hmmmm...

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1490264980_small.jpg

stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:56 (seventeen years ago)

i have that album. its v good

joe 40oz (deej), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

hahaha

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1485438396_small.jpg

stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

joe 40oz (deej), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 01:00 (seventeen years ago)

stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 01:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1603000100_small.jpg

joe 40oz (deej), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 01:20 (seventeen years ago)

nice yellow pants

joe 40oz (deej), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 01:20 (seventeen years ago)

It says a lot for that cover that the yellow jeans aren't as off-putting as the fucking granny knickers on those models.

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 01:21 (seventeen years ago)

fuck that british smart ass --- I've seen that shit before and it made me want to smack him

reacher, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 01:32 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

v dope interview with one of the pen & pixel founders http://www.abcdrduson.com/interviews/print-vo.php?id=197

re this http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/1485438396_small.jpg

S: [laughs] The interesting thing about that cover is, ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses. That's actually his body and for his hands, we ordered a bear hand from a movie shop down in Hollywood. So the hand is actually a real bear hand. So he's got the glove on and he's got his Versace robe and we put some hair on his chest, but he has no bear hand. We did that in the computer later on. We sat him at this table that we had, basically a plastic table. We shot him separately, there were like six shots. The main shot was his hand holding a glass cup. The glass and his hand are separate shots. All the props – the fishs, the nuts, the berries on the plates – they were all separate. Those are real live items we had purchased. All of that stuffs. And of course, we had a background of a cave from a photograph, put that in and it took the text to make it look like it's made out of honey. Expensive cover [laughs].

nog right (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.
ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.
ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.
ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.
ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.
ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.
ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.
ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.
ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.
ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.
ever single one of the bears on the cover is actually the artist. He body-modelled all of the poses.

nog right (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

Years ago Spin (I think) did a thing where they had the Pen & Pixel guys come up with album covers for NIN, Jewel and some other non-hip hop performers. It was pretty hilarious.

neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

link??

luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:27 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.abcdrduson.com/interviews/print-vo.php?id=197

nog right (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

no i mean unperson

luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

"I just finished a cover for Disney last year. It's a book cover, very banky, called "Damn, it feels good to be a banker". That was Pen & Pixel look, bling-bling look all the way"

luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:41 (sixteen years ago)

"I just finished a cover for Disney last year. It's a book cover, very canky, called "Damn, it feels good to be a racist".

nog right (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:43 (sixteen years ago)

The rap industry is very very money motivated. People don't really rap because they have a passion for rapping, it's a very unique music experience. They rap because there's a monetary reward at the end of it, unlike any other type of music. You are a guitar player, you play the guitar because you love to. If you're a rapper, you rap because you want fame and fortune, period.

nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:56 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

love this one:

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/2856162154_1.jpg

original bgm, Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:37 (fourteen years ago)

v. disorienting:

http://a1.img.v4.skyrock.net/a10/ffm713/pics/2822203480_1.jpg

original bgm, Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:39 (fourteen years ago)

Apparently it was just Jewel and Trent.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:42 (fourteen years ago)

yes!!!

original bgm, Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:46 (fourteen years ago)


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