Most hip hop album covers have the artist standing alone, looking with some kind of attitude. This expression is usually one of anger or arrogance, and they stare directly into the camera. This means that it would normally be a medium, long shot of the artist, depending on their body position.
We found a few examples of this type of thing:
Most hip hop albums have the artist standing alone, looking with some kind of attitude. This expression is usually one of anger or cockiness, and they stare directly into the camera. This means that it would normally be a medium, long shot of the artist, depending on their body position.
Another technique is to have a front on close up, representing the artists’ feelings in a particular song or album. For example, this 50 cent album obviously conveys him as angry or confused, which would more than likely come across in his songs. As well as this, the saturation is in black and white, again maybe to convey his feelings.
In both of these CD covers, the font is pretty much the same, being a bold but fancy style of writing.
Another quite popular CD design is for the main image to be a cartoon. Kanye west in particular uses a teddybear to represent himself.
As a child he claimed he loved teddy, and with the album being called graduation, he decided to represent his graduation with something from his childhood.
In some instances, artists have actually made themselves into cartoon-style images. Here, chamillionaire is still pulling an arrogant facial-expression however, he is in cartoon rather than the real image being used.
