20 Classic Hip Hop Album Covers Recreated in LEGO

SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
edited December 2008 in Strut Central
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  • LOVE THIS

  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,471 Posts
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21Holy. Fu[/b]cking. Shit.

  • verb606verb606 2,518 Posts
    Awesome. Question is, who's the first one who's going to take issue with their use of the term "classic?" b, 21b, 21b, 21Classic status aside, the Jedi Mind Tricks one with the Lego tree background was dope.

  • This is awesome. I needed a new avy.

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    b, 21Awesome. Question is, who's the first one who's going to take issue with their use of the term "classic?"
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    b, 21Classic status aside, the Jedi Mind Tricks one with the Lego tree background was dope.
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21b, 21i just did in an e-mail to a friend hahahahaha.b, 21b, 21b, 21and yeah, that JMT one was dope

  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    some of these really don't work that interestingly (see: Common, Jedi Mind Tricks) but some are off the chain:b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
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    b, 21some of these really don't work that interestingly (see: Common, Jedi Mind Tricks) but some are off the chain:
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21That actually looks kinda like GFK. Scary.

  • OkemOkem 4,617 Posts
    Why have they all become 'white' men? (do I need to adjust my web browser) b, 21b, 21Where's the Lego men of colour? img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/emil.gif" alt="" 21

  • erewhonerewhon 1,123 Posts
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21Lego stubble = img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nagl2.gif" alt="" 21

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21b, 21 Install this.

  • I question calling some of these LPs classic, but these are cool as hell.

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    b, 21Why have they all become 'white' men? (do I need to adjust my web browser)
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    b, 21Where's the Lego men of colour?
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21b, 21not sure if there even are Lego men of color.b, 21b, 21apparently the only parts the artists manipulated were the faces of the Lego men, which they painted to approximate the faces of the rapp dudes. the rest of the stuff (hats, clothes, whatever) appear to be out-of-the-box.

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    b, 21not sure if there even are Lego men of color.
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21well, that's kinda weird. i think you are rightb, 21b, 21somewhat related, it's the old testament lego-ized!

  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    You saying that yellow isn't a color?b, 21b, 21Your anti-Asian sentiment is showing img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" 21

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    I'm pretty sure that yellow was chosen for it's semi-ambiguous nature.b, 21b, 21Or Lego people could all be White with jaundice.b, 21b, 21Or the Lego people inventor was creole and wanted to represent yellow bone supremacy.

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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21b, 21are you suggesting they should be black-face legos?b, 21b, 21b, 21b, 21why would he say that?

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    b, 21Your anti-Asian sentiment is showing
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21hahaha...damn. b, 21b, 21img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/walkawaysonfinal.gif" alt="" 21

  • phongonephongone 1,652 Posts
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    b, 21I question calling some of these LPs classic, but these are cool as hell.
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21Right? I object to the inclusion of Mos Def's The New Danger in this project.

  • OkemOkem 4,617 Posts
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    b, 21I'm pretty sure that yellow was chosen for it's semi-ambiguous nature.
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21Yes, that's pretty much it exactly. They're about fantasy/play/learning etc and being ambiguous is a part of that.b, 21b, 21Their sister company, Duplo, who make a larger version aimed at young children, who have a slightly different remit, I guess you could say, have a much more varied character cast.b, 21b, 21 img src="http://isubookstorecatalog.com/images/edu/big/TCP/LG_9222.gif"1

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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21which brings us to these yellow graemlins: img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" 21b, 21b, 21 img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/emil.gif" alt="" 21

  • GropeGrope 2,970 Posts
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21b, 21the original looks like someone is feeling something already. but the lego redo? russian gay pron? ayoooooo!!!

  • How is Midnight Marauders a Classic?

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    b, 21the original looks like someone is feeling something already. but the lego redo? yugoslovian tugjob pron? ayoooooo!!!
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  • catalistcatalist 1,373 Posts
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  • catalistcatalist 1,373 Posts
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21file under: "Unnecessary attempt to create 5-pager"

  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
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    font class="post"1b, 21b, 21SERIOUSLY.b, 21b, 21More to the point, why that album cover for a Lego makeover? It doesn't exactly lend itself to a very interesting Lego interpretation.b, 21b, 21And how is it there's no "Ready to Die"? b, 21b, 21Or heck - do "Illlmatic" using a Lego faced transposed onto a Lego city backdrop. img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/game.gif" alt="" 21

  • I'd love to see Ice-T's Power in Lego

  • yeah it's useless to argue whether these all represent "classics" (hint: they don't). the real question is why these covers, of all rapp covers, came to mind when dude was doing these.

  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,471 Posts
    img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/qrna8j.jpg"1b, 21b, 21This one shoulda gotten the Lego treatment.

  • I'm still waiting for the LEGO version of Big Bear's classique Doin Thangs. And an accompanying video made using one of those LEGO video games
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