We looked at the case study of alternative hip hop rapper Lupe Fiasco and his album Food and Liquor, which features the song 'Superstar'
The album cover for Food and Liquor was designed by Chuck Anderson and Righteous Kung Fu, the items surrounding Lupe Fiasco were chosen as he said he carried them around every day and also he parodied drive by shootings by replacing guns with books and liquor with milk and cookies.
The album cover
The album artwork in relation to song and genre
-Food and Liquors album cover suggests an upbeat tempo through the bright colours and lights shown behind and around the artist relating to his superstar status, this also suggests a futuristic element and superiority to others. The songs beat and style is shown through the cover as his clothing and suggests stereotypical artist of this genre and, the use of the background suggests something is different to what would normally be expected of the hip hop genre.
Album in relation to lyrics of the song
-The lyrics featured in the song mainly focus around the idea of being famous and materialistic objects this is represented in the cover as he is surrounded by different objects such as Nintendo DS.
-'And the lights are on and the want a show'- bright lights and holding ghetto blaster album cover start of the show
-'Did you improve on the design, did you do something new?'-different design in comparison to previous album cover
Typography
- The typography for this album cover does not represent Lupe Fiasco very well as it mainly connotates a Bollywood style
-Hip hop is not represented through this typography
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