{"id":17472,"date":"2010-09-15T23:38:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T21:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=17472"},"modified":"2010-09-15T23:38:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T21:38:04","slug":"hip-hops-50-greatest-album-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/hip-hops-50-greatest-album-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop&#8217;s 50 Greatest Album Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17473\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/hip-hops-50-greatest-album-covers\/capture_15092010_213135\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/capture_15092010_213135.jpg?fit=540%2C149&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"540,149\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"greatest album covers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/capture_15092010_213135.jpg?fit=540%2C149&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/capture_15092010_213135.jpg?fit=540%2C149&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17473\" title=\"greatest album covers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/capture_15092010_213135.jpg?fit=640%2C149&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"149\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dating back to its earliest ties to graffiti culture, the visual component has always played a large part in hip-hop culture. Today&#8217;s album art mostly serves as thumbtacks for NahRight posts or, at best, just another category on iTunes for OCD sufferers to perfect. But once upon a time, it mattered. LPs were hung on walls, CDs were cracked open, and cassette J-cards were unfolded awkwardly and with as much anticipation as is given to today&#8217;s Zshare links. From the Daisy Age fluorescence of De La Soul to the digital age fluorescence of Kanye West, we&#8217;re proclaiming the finest moments of three decades&#8217; worth of hip-hop album art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the list <a href=\"http:\/\/best.complex.com\/lists\/Hip-Hops-50-Greatest-Album-Covers\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dating back to its earliest ties to graffiti culture, the visual component has always played&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-4xO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}