XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this feature. When it comes to the essence of an album, oftentimes the cover art is just as captivating as the music. Since the popularization of hip-hop ...

However, no one can deny the richness of the genre’s albums. Join BLACK ENTERPRISE as we take you down memory lane with these eight historic hip-hop album covers.

However, a cover can be an important part of an album’s legacy, and artists should treat it as such. It’s the first thing a listener sees and can be an important part of framing the experience. Hip ...

It’s one of the most iconic album covers in hip-hop history - a young Nas faded into the Queensbridge skyline. But how did ...

The most memorable album covers tell a story in itself or, at the very least, illustrate what the album may sound like. The Beastie Boys’ debut, Licensed to Ill (1986), and its busted down jet ...

With 83 songs spanning seven albums, most recorded in the Nineties, this staggeringly abundant archival collection reframes a ...

Visuals have always played a prominent role in hip hop culture. In the early days, it was graffiti (as decreed by DJ Afrika Bambaataa); Since then, the music video and the album cover have ...

Hip-hop artists in particular have used album art to make a statement and contextualize their legacy, from Method Man channeling Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain” for the cover of his 1994 ...

For “his” first act Emceez has reimagined some of Hip-Hop’s most memorable and iconic album covers. And if you didn’t think they were memorable before, they sure are now. Check out Aziz ...

Marvel just announced a new project, where they’ll be creating even more epic versions of some of hip-hop’s most classic album covers. See the first batch below, with more to come this fall.

Marvel Comics artwork from 2015-2017 will be used on reissues of classic albums from Universal ... artwork created for the company’s Hip-Hop Variant cover program repurposed as actual album ...

What made OutKast’s ATLiens cover so important is that it was their sophomore effort and the first time they were able to share with the world their “King” mentality, a mindset that some ...