Trace That: Album Artwork Inspired by Other Artists

Seeing double on LP covers with Curren$y, Lil Wayne & more.

TRU and Jet Life - Curren$y hit up Instagram last night and revealed his next project with his Jet Life Crew will be a compilation called Organized Crime. For the artwork, Spitta and his homies Young Roddy and Trademark Da Skydiver reincarnate Master P and Tru’s street banger Tru 2 Da Game from 1997. As Curren$y pays homage to his New Orleans O.G.s, check out other album artwork that has borrowed heavily from the past. — Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photos from left: No Limit Records, Atlantic Records
Michael Jackson and Tech N9ne - If you’re going to follow someone’s musical lead, who better than Michael Jackson? Tech N9ne lay down in a white straitjacket for his 2008 release Killer in a revamping of The King of Pop’s classic 1982 opus Thriller. (Photos from left: Epic Records, Strange Music)
Wiz Khalifa and Young Thug - Young Thug was so enamored with Wiz Khalifa that he used Photoshop and replaced the “We Dem Boyz” emcee’s head for his mixtape 1017 Thug 2 in July. Even Wiz’s tattoos remained on the artwork. (Photo from left: Courtesy of Flaty Fitty, Atlantic Records)The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Tha Alkaholiks - L.A. spitters Tha Alkaholiks channeled The Jimi Hendrix Experience for their fourth round X.O. Experience in 2001. The artwork and title borrowed from the famed guitarist and his crew’s 1967 debut Are You Experienced. (Photos from left: Polydor, Loud Records)

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TRU and Jet Life - Curren$y hit up Instagram last night and revealed his next project with his Jet Life Crew will be a compilation called Organized Crime. For the artwork, Spitta and his homies Young Roddy and Trademark Da Skydiver reincarnate Master P and Tru’s street banger Tru 2 Da Game from 1997. As Curren$y pays homage to his New Orleans O.G.s, check out other album artwork that has borrowed heavily from the past. — Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photos from left: No Limit Records, Atlantic Records

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