Rap CDs feature some of the most notoriously bad cover art of all time. Exhibit A, from a poor misguided soul who decided to hang his entire career on the name Mr. Stinky.
I’m trying to imagine the conversation about this cover. “Well, my name is MISTER STINKY, and there’s a, you know, stinky dead body over here to the right. And behind me is a stinky van, which is, like, stinky because it’s broken down and looks like something a soccer mom would drive, not an O.G. like myself.”
And then there’s poor Stinky, staring at the camera with that “What do I do now?” look on his face. Oh, the agony–if this CD had been packaged correctly, the entire WORLD would now be sharing in the joys of Mr. Stinky’s GENIUS. But alas, it was not meant to be.
Fame, fortune, and all the summer sausage you can eat have all passed Mr. Stinky by…he can’t even hope to share a bill with Mr. Mister, who could sympathize with Mr. Stinky for having a dubious (OK, idiotic) name and a severe lack of willpower to do anything about it.
Poor Mr. Stinky, where are you now? Are you repaneling the house with all those CDs you got stuck with? Perhaps you’re DJing at the local skating rink wondering where it all went south? Or maybe…just MAYBE this is another one of those early Beck CDs cleverly disguised to look like something else. It could happen.
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Who ever wasted there time and life…. let me know where you are so I can put a bullet in your face!
Hi Stinky, thanks for responding. If you want to put a bullet in someone’s face, you can come right on down, we’ll be happy to see you. Please drop by with a cup of tea and your favorite handgun. We at Turntabling don’t own firearms, but we’d be happy to admire yours, as we do appreciate fine metalwork–though usually we prefer sculpture. We are located at:
NYC PD
120 West 82nd Street, New York
Oh yeah, you can also feel free to call and voice your opinion direct: (212) 580-6411. Tell the nice man in uniform everything you told us here 🙂
P.S. “vigalanty” is spelled V-I-G-I-L-A-N-T-E.
PPS. Seriously, your comment made us laugh. More please. Thanks for reading!
Mr. Stinky may be an excellent marksman but he apparently failed third grade English. Get a sense of humor gangsta….Good luck at the 7-11 you will soon be workin at….
Oh and what you wrote on this blog? It might actually be criminal. You know, threatening to kill someone. Good job genius…
Vigalanty is spelled wrong on purpose… it’s a hip hop thing that you obviously know nothing about. That was not the final album cover that was the lp and the album is called everyting dead (and yes it is everyting not everything… a Jamaican thing which you also know nothing about) so a dead body fits right with the cover. Yes everyone is entitled to their own opinion but yours is clearly uneducated. But it’s ok, that’s what happens when you live such a sheltered life and have no knowledge to other cultures or diversities.
Your comment implies that hip hop deliberately caters to the lowest common denominator, but I know for a fact there are plenty of hip hop artists who don’t hold up ignorance as some kind of standard to aspire to–too bad they have to compete with the musical equivalent of professional wrestling to be heard, though.