Kanye West’s Five Album Covers
November 5, 2010 @ 10:59 AM EDT
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My favorite Kanye album cover is Graduation. The art by Kaws for 808’s and heartbreak was dope too
pretentious attempts to be ‘artistic’ on kanye’s part…
Best in tha game…gucci tell em!
I still think that Power cover artwork is the toughest.
everything else besides the power cover is cornville
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THATS ART? SHIT IS GARBAGE… THE 2ND IS THE BEST
Yea graduation cover is by farrr the best looking
Cover for Graduation was the best. To the dude that said 808s cover was dope, how is a picture of a heart dope? That shit was lame.
George Condo is a genius
Anybody who thinks this artwork is anything less than dope doesn’t have taste. Like someone saying “This Cristal sucks! Bring me some Colt 45!”
ARTWORK:
1. GRADUATION (DOPE COVER!)
2. LATE REGISTRATION (DOPE COVER!)
3. THE COLLEGE DROPOUT (DOPE COVER!)
4. 808S & HEARTBREAK (OK COVER!)
5. MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY (WACK ALBUM COVER(S)!)
MUSIC:
1. THE COLLEGE DROPOUT (MASTERPIECE!)
2. MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY (MASTERPIECE!)
3. LATE REGISTRATION (MASTERPIECE!)
4. GRADUATION (MASTERPIECE!)
5. 808S & HEARTBREAK (WACK ALBUM!)
YOU CAN HATE ME NOW!
u punk ass niggas think that just becasue swizz or kanye co signs it its bonafied art.
my daughter makes better shit than this…
these covers are straight ass…
MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY > 2010 IN HIP HOP MUSIC!
WAIT…
MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY > 2010 IN MUSIC!
YOU CAN HATE ME NOW!
I don’t really care for those covers either. If I had to pick I’d prolly go with the first. He should bring back that bear tho.
Wack Wack Wack
THE BEST ONE IS THE HEADLESS KING WIT THE SWORD GOIN’ THRU IT!!!! HANDS DOWN!!!! IT SUMS UP THE WHOLE THEME OF THE ALBUM AND SOME OF THE SITUATIONS HE’S BEEN IN!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
Too be honest all of Kanye’s album covers haven’t been that great… Out of these though I like the original power cover the most…can’t really tell what the first one looks like.
Jeeeeezer, ZoomZoom are an idiots, hands down. Pay no attention to the jerks behind the dumb ass comments. Cold blood is 1/4 idiot, you had until you said 808s was wack. Your probably think Gucci got mad classics too
Late Registration had theee best cover
@ SirDouglas
I HATE GUCCI! 808S WAS WACK! I CAN’T STAND THAT SOFT MUSIC!
YOU CAN HATE ME NOW!
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First and second are nice
My vote goes to the POWER cover… The ballerina one is trash.. the others are just okay… (semi corny)
Hate it or Love it, half the people on this site know they bought 808’s when it came out, and u know u bumped da shit for atleast a month straight…infact y’all can’t deny that ya fucked wit autotune. Yall fucked wit autotune until Jay-Z dropped D.O.A….why? cuz yall followers…yall the fans, your not “thee artist”.
U can b an EMCEE, or u can b an EMCEE who’s an artist. What’s the difference?
The difference is the EMCEE is just spitting lines…showing off skills, talking bigger then he really is. It might b sick, with wicked punch lines…no doubt, and not hating…it still takes talent.
But EMCEE ARTIST he will brainstorm his album. Yes he’ll have one or two radio songs, maybe one or two “show off ur skills on da mic” songs like the average EMCEE. But the art is the brainstorming. The art is the concept, the message, the thesis and the theme. Sometimes an artist will come out with a sequel or even a trilogy for his album…as a concept.
Jay-Z: The Blueprint Trilogy
BP1- It’s the foundation…the beggining of the second half of his career….Taking Jay-Z away from dat hood NYC tunnel rap to soul samples.
BP2-Experimenting the sounds to become. When I first heard BP2 I thought it was wack…I think it would of been classic but he should of kept it one CD. He experimented the sounds, that’s why the album is all over the place.
BP3-Straight up for da suburbs. Hate it or Love it.
Kanye had his trilogy with his first 3 albums.
Eminem came out wit sequels for all his albums
SSLP & MMLP
TES & ENCORE
RELAPSE & RECOVERY
NAS doesnt really have sequels or Trilogys exept for Illmatic and Stillmatic…but all his covers after “Nastradamos” have a hidden imagery concept to it. And all his albums himself have a concept.
Yall thinking hidden imagery…look @ this…”Stillmatic” there’s the flood and the pigeon. “The pigeon represents the dove that told Noah bout the flood. The river is the flood. “Lost Tapes” is the drought, The river in the album cover is empty. “God’s Son” is meant to represent the purity with the blue and him being topless, the innocence, and the good in Jesus. “Street’s Disciple” is imagery of the last supper…the last supper is the night b4 jesus was cruxified. “HIP-HOP is DEAD” is the grave…Nas=Hip-Hop but Nas is God’s Son, and God’s Son=Jesus. “Nigger” is the ressurection. Jesus was scarred up from the whip lashing…Notice the infamous “N” scarred up…its not bleeding, its scarred. I wonder what Nas will come out wit next.
50 Cent on the other hand he lost his fame, his fans, his music credibility because after Get Rich, he had no more concepts…Dont get me wrong, his album titles are great…U would think there is a concept…”B4 I Self Destruct” is an attractive title, but the album doesnt have shit to do wit the title, exept from “Flight 187” but that didnt even make the album.
EMCEES vs. EMCEE ARTISTS
THE EMCEE has no longevitity while the artist stays around and will b around…EM, Jay, NAS, Kanye…will always have their die hard fans…why cuz they make GOOD music.