Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor
Chicago-based Lupe Fiasco is being touted as the next big thing in hip hop. Chuck Anderson of nopattern designs this spaced out cover in his eclectic colourful style featuring a boombox, toys, a Nintendo DS and assorted goodies.
Some insight into the collaboration between artist, designer, and record label from The Brilliance:
The great thing about the cover in my opinion is where Chuck and Lupe took ‘it’ in the realm of hip-hop. They connected the dots from Pink Floyd, Head Porter, the Quran to Cartier glasses in one fell swoop. You don’t need to meet Lupe because everything you need to know about him is on that cover somewhere. Pay close attention to him in general because he’s putting on a lesson in creative control. Imagine having a one-way conversation with your record label and saying here’s my cover, lets use it to sell millions, and them be like O.K. Rarely happens.
mo-MAN:
This cover is awful.
It could have been saved if it not had small photoshopped objects floating around Lupe, and had a good choice of font with less glow placed in a better position. There are better ways to reflect all your interests than have them as material items floating around you.
# 20 Mar 08 at 9:47 am
cenzi:
I agree. its absolutely revolting. the commercialness of the product placement make me think that tis is a vile product for American greedy “want want want”’s
# 15 May 08 at 11:21 am
Matt Z:
album cover sucks but the album itself is amazing, cmon theres tons of good albums with bad covers. and cenzi learn english before u start dissin America
# 20 May 08 at 6:15 am
J Sheehy:
Punctuation too.
# 26 Jun 08 at 7:40 am
LarsEfx:
So now you can’t have an oppinion on america, if you can’t write english perfectly? That’s lame.
# 30 Jun 08 at 9:03 pm