Idolator
So a few weeks ago we entered this cover in our "Worst Album Cover Of The Year" contest for its painful Photoshop filter abuse and general air of last-minute laziness. But then the Clan goes and unveils a whole new sleeve, one they feel is more Wu worthy, especially for a release as anticipated as 8 Diagrams. So how does the "official" cover compare?
Well that's a... little better, even if our inner font fiend is still forced to give that typeface a thumbs down. A thumbs down with a wack drop shadow.
Wu-Tang - 8 Diagrams Cover (Official) [Nah Right]
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A thumbs down for your crash course photoshop class not teaching the difference between wack outer glow and wack drop shadow.
I gotta say, it's not a great cover, but the new one is a vast improvement. Now it's just mediocre, which makes it boring for the purposes of the Idolator contest.
is raekwon wearing wu-branded binoculars?
Is it weird that I'm a tiny bit surprised Ghost is on the cover? What with all the bad blood and all.
Deck is starting to look like Isaac Hayes.
So, apparently, this one was co-financed by the Dharma Initiative.
@BleepBot: sonned in a freshman year photoshop beef.
@SuperUnison: Yep - gotta keep the Losties entertained. Or something.
This doesn't look worse or better than any other hip-hop album cover I've seen, just a LOT less hilarious. They're not trying to look hard enough to push into parody, but the cover design is cheap enough to be aesthetically off-putting. If there were like, bling flashes in inappropriate places, dollar signs floating in the air, a disproportionately stretched gold frame around it... then i would at least be "awesome," to use my inner ironic hipster's language.
is Willie Randolph a Yankee again?
How much you wanna bet that RZA was like, "nah, son, this is my good side."
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