Young Ones: Baby Pic Album Covers

ScHoolBoy Q continues a familiar hip hop concept.

The Rundown: ScHoolBoy Q, Oxymoron - Now is the time for ScHoolBoy Q. The TDE rapper is eager to launch himself into the conversation as one of the best new rappers doing it. ("Tell Kendrick move from the throne, I came for it," he raps on "Break the Bank.") He's on his way there with his major-label debut, Oxymoron, which finds Q blending stories of his gang-related past with groovy joints for a nicely blended effort. Read on for a track-by-track recap.(Photo: TDE, Interscope)
Drake - Nothing Was The Same - Drake's Nothing Was The Same included hits like "Started from the Bottom;" "Worst Behavior;" "Hold on, We're Going Home" and "The Language." It more than holds its weight as an Album of the Year contender.(Photo: Young Money Records)
Nas - “The Genesis,” Illmatic (1994) - Illmatic introduces us to one of hip hop’s most cinematic rappers with an intro that contains audio clips from Wild Style, a movie that inaugurated hip hop into film.(Photo: Columbia Records)The Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die - The Notorious B.I.G's debut, which dropped five months after Illmatic in 1994, also featured a picture of a child (though in this case it was a baby with a resemblance to Big, not an old pic of the rapper himself). Ghostface later criticized Biggie for "biting" the Illmatic cover in a skit on Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (Photo: Bad Boy Records)

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Young Ones: Baby Pic Album Covers - ScHoolBoy Q recently revealed the cover art for the deluxe and standard editions of his major-label debut, Oxymoron. The deluxe is a picture of him in a ski mask and a bucket hat (of course), while the standard, so precious, is a picture of his daughter, Joy, in a bucket hat (of course). Now Q can claim a place in the still somewhat exclusive baby-pic album cover category alongside Nas, Jill Scott and fellow TDE rapper Kendrick Lamar.Click on to see more smile-inducing childhood pics music stars have used for their album covers.(Photo: TDE, Interscope)

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