it’s cause most of them are teenagers who don’t even have an identity or vision yet and latch onto hip hop for an image

if i gotta see another cover made using a magazine/insta photoshoot my eyes gonna roll into the back of my head

2nd cover in op looks like a my turn knockoff to me with carti on a cliff

and it’s using the same pose from @ meh
with empty space everywhere

cmon

that’d be acceptable for a high school project but expecting him to actually use it is laughable

1. He’s used this before

2. Extremely on the nose and predictable

3. Covers should never be 1:1 literal representations of the titles of the albums they belong to, that’s lazy design

the cover wasnt terrible, but the lack of texture and the pic of carti they chose really made it look like a rushed 5 min Photoshop job.

I kept the soul of the design intact, just gave it a little more edge.

yeah I realize that. I thought since he was a friend of a friend AND I was charging him the super cheap price there was no reason for him to not pay.

F*** nah lmfaoo

If it was a different red then I'd say yes, would be dope if it was like a crimson/bloodish red that looks like it's painted on canvas with texture n s***

This is dope and I can understand where you’re coming from

I agree I do think it would have been a little better if the white was replaced with something with a little more texture but I still think it’s a good cover nonetheless

Literally a vast majority of the fanmade covers are lazy as s*** so what is your point here?

Looks like a gay vampire here

THEY THOT I WAs GAY

i think the problem is that fans are inherently reactionary and are drawn to pre-existing aesthetics when it comes to artists cos they have no other real reference point. whereas artists are likely to have moved on then and will be more likely to reflect that in the here and now

That’s exactly why I’m saying they’re garbage

i actually didnt like it at first cos it felt like random nostalgia bait but i like it a lot having actually listened to SM2 cos it actually interpolates a lot of that throwback sound into the music

forgot about when kids just take a photoshoot pic and put a parental advisory sticker on it

I'd rather have something extremely simple and minimalistic than whatever it is they came up with here or whatever it is these fans are making. Don't even have to give the artwork much attention.

Anyone who actually uses fan covers

what was the savage mode 2 cover? the one I see hard as f***.

this wouldve been corny at this point

dudes on ktt were posting the red tile in the ‘red album covers’ thread 2 years ago.

its time to let the red tile go

comparing them to the old box logos, those are the worst

Don't forget every amateur artist's favorite crutch

His production is anything but minimalistic

That’s pre self titled era even lmao itd feel too outdated