The album cover is very important, yet often overlooked. A powerful album cover can attract the attention of consumers, as well as support the concept of an album. These are two of my favorite covers, interesting to see how Redman was influenced by a Funkadelic record…
ORIGINAL:
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain album cover, circa 1971.
INFLUENCED:
Redman – Dare Iz A Darkside album cover, circa 1994.
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There’s also that Smif N’ Wessun cover that used Roy Ayers – He’s Coming. This could be a cool ongoing column. I can think of dozens of covers… blue notes…
Indeed! I plan on making this a column.
A while back, I did a post on the Roy Ayers album cover and linked the Smif-N-Wessun cover within the review…peep it here:
http://flwrpt.com/blog/?p=46
makes sense Redman would be influenced by the P-Funk for his cover…as u know, most of Erick Sermon’s beats used heavy funk samples, many from Funkadelic, so Red was all about that. (u know i always comment when you mention an NJ native, and Redman is Newark, NJ’s finest, lol)…i keep tryna tell people, funk is deeply rooted in NJ!
As a NJ native myself I gotta co-sign that, PAN. Jerz got the funk!