![]() ![]() But it’s the little touches, such as the presence of Gary “What choo talkin’ ’bout Willis?” Coleman as a gallant knight, that truly elevate the cover to wack status. It’s basically a straight rip off of the movie poster for The Chronicles of Narnia. The cover to Willis’ Narnia is terrible in a different way than the rest of the entrants in this list. It’s also clear that the Dead Head who created the artwork was paid in shrooms. The marijuana leaves used to frame your name drive that point home on their own. We get it, Dolla Bill: You like to get lifted. The only problem is that as soon as I gazed upon it, my eyeballs melted. There’s nothing inheritly offensive about the cover of Peace Pot Microdot. The cover of The Black Bar Mitzvah veers dangerously close to Donald Trump-esque visions of grandeur. But conflating riches with the trappings of religion is just too much. Rick Ross’ dedication to excess fits well with his image. ![]() This was the cover that inspired this collection, this monument to bad taste. Rick Ross – The Black Bar Mitzvah Mixtape So let’s celebrate the campiest, the corniest, and the most trifling examples of bad mixtape covers after the jump. Whatever the reason, there’s just so many terrible mixtape covers. And bear in mind that every one of those artists with a mixtape with a wack cover thought the artwork was COOL AS HELL. Many on the mixtape circuit don’t have a professional design team to do their art direction. Now there’s a ton of examples of bad release artwork floating out in the ether, but today we turn our focus on bad mixtape cover art. Maybe it’s because mixtapes are typically low budget releases. If someone has never heard you, an attractive or eyecatching cover may pique their interest. Which makes terrible album artwork all the more worthy of scorn. IT STILL MATTERS, PEOPLE. The album cover is the forward facing marketing element for your music. Even in this day and age, when an artist can just take a picture with a smart phone, slap on an Instragram filter, and call it an album cover. In the middle of the song, you hear the poem that Willy Wonka sings in the psychedelic boat trip.Artwork is one of the more under appreciated aspects of music as product. ![]() Indulgence, some know and some go much too far
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