The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Magazine Covers

[Llahsram]

My avi was 27

 

[TRILLip Brooks]

that 50/dre/em shit was always be memorable

 

[dalyricalbandit]

list was bull

 

[real_hh_rep]

I think the list is nice. Quite original ranking, but very interesting.

 

[bigrizz]

Goat thread..........................

 

[riddlerap]

lol the ones that were actually from Complex seemed randomly put in and bullshit. and too much Biggie.

 

[MICHAEL-V.I.]

Jacked from Complex.com. Good read.

http://www.complex.com/music/2011/03/the-50-greatest-hip-hop-magazine-covers/

Try and guess the first place, I failed big time lol..

My two favorites:

At the height of the East Coast/West Coast feud, it seemed like one party or the other was on the cover of VIBE every month. For this Death Row cover they presented the label's four principles—Snoop, Pac, Suge, and Dre—as mafioso kingpins, brothers united, in a perfect visual articulation of cover writer Kevin Powell's threatening description of the the gangster workings of label. Within a matter of eighteen months this empire would crumble, with Dre jumping ship by the summer of '96 and Snoop also distancing himself from Suge's reign in the wake of Pac's murder.

Modeled after Art Kane's legendary "Great Day In Harlem" Esquire shoot from 1958, XXL's "The Greatest Day In Hip-Hop History," was a reminder that the hip-hop world could still come together in the name of unity. The original featured 57 jazz icons chilling on a 126th St. stoop. XXL upped the ante and bumped the number to a whopping 200 hundred hip-hop artists and personalities, across a fold-out cover. It was a relevant and even-handed distribution of acts from across the hip-hop nation—Rakim, the Native Tongues, Hierolyphics, Scarface, E-40, Twista, and Pete Rock are just a random sampling of the crowd. (There is a highly recommended three-part documentary on the making of the cover available on YouTube.)

Good Shit

I can't remember all of em

But Good Shit B

 

[P. Town]

The XXL Freshmen cover ruined the list

 

[tompetrez3]

where the fuck is that masters of the universe wu tang cover from the source in june 97 that fold out and show all the wu members

 

[georgia boi]

A lot of those covers weren't memorable at all. The only thing that I gathered from the list is that Vibe and Rap Pages had the most memorable covers. Even Rollingstone had some good ones. They left off some classic Source covers though. I would've easily repalced Missy's V Magazine cover with her and Timbaland's Matrix inspired '99 Source cover. The '99 Cube, Snoop and Dre Source cover was dope too. The Vibe cover w/ the shot of Nas & Jay at the performance where they officially squashed the beef was another classic cover that wasn't on the list.

 

[usmarin3]

LOL at Complex forcing their shit on the list, nigga please. The Deathrow picture should have been number 1 imo.

 

[#sneakerhead]

these the only 3 that stood out to me........the rest seem forced just for the sake of making the list.

 

[Cutler 26 INT's LOL!]

Yo that Jay-Z, DMX, Ja Rule cover is hard.

 

[Disciplined InSight]

I got most of those magazines..lol.

My favorites: The Source Redman cover, the XXL Murder Inc. cover and the Vibe Death Row cover.

 

[esco soprano]

List was trash IMO. It coulda been much better.

 

[CirocObama]

I got most of those magazines..lol.

My favorites: The Source Redman cover, the XXL Murder Inc. cover and the Vibe Death Row cover.

See this is what i hate about niggas. Whenever i got some rare shit i always post but niggas are so fuckin stingy. Go and scan a few of them magazines and share em with ya niggas NIGGA.

Fuckin right *DMX voice*

 

[stupot0607]

Good Drop...