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)

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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)

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)

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Young Ones: Baby Pic Album Covers - Drake used two covers for his third album, Nothing Was the Same, and if you lined them up in a certain way, it's a depiction of him as grown-up, "All Me" Drizzy staring into the eyes of a pre-Degrassi baby Drake.(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)

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Nas, Illmatic - Nas set off the baby pic album cover trend with the iconic artwork for his classic 1994 debut, Illmatic, which features a picture of him when he was 7, superimposed over an image of the Queensbridge housing projects.  (Photo: Def Jam 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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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)

Common, One Day It'll All Make Sense - Common also took on the childhood pic cover theme from a family angle with his third album, 1997's One Day It'll All Make Sense, which was covered by a vintage image of him and his mother. (Photo: Relativity Records)

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Common, One Day It'll All Make Sense - Common also took on the childhood pic cover theme from a family angle with his third album, 1997's One Day It'll All Make Sense, which was covered by a vintage image of him and his mother. (Photo: Relativity Records)

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'Not Like Crazy' - On this track she goes on a journey of love. Comparing what her lover does to the sun rising and moon shining at night.  (Photo: Warner Bros Records)

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Jill Scott, Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol .2 - Rappers aren't the only ones following in Nas's footsteps. Jill Scott dug through her old photo albums for the cover of this 2004 release.  (Photo: Warner Bros Records)

Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne finally gave the fans what they had been begging him for. Easily the most anticipated album of 2008.

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Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne gave the trend a hilarious gangsta twist for the cover of his 2008 blockbuster Tha Carter III, which featured a photoshopped picture of Wayne as a baby — face and hand tattoos were added. (Photo: Cash Money Records)

Rah Digga, Classic - The cover to Jersey vet Rah Digga's 2010 album, Classic, loses points for originality but makes up for it with undeniable toddler swag. (Photo: Raw Koncept Records)

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Rah Digga, Classic - The cover to Jersey vet Rah Digga's 2010 album, Classic, loses points for originality but makes up for it with undeniable toddler swag. (Photo: Raw Koncept Records)

Lil Wayne, Tha Carter IV - Lil Wayne stuck with the concept for his 2011 follow-up, Tha Carter IV, this time inking up an old graduation photo. (Photo: Cash Money Records)

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Lil Wayne, Tha Carter IV - Lil Wayne stuck with the concept for his 2011 follow-up, Tha Carter IV, this time inking up an old graduation photo. (Photo: Cash Money Records)

50 Cent, 5: Murder by Numbers - 50 Cent's 2012 mixtape, 5: Murder by Numbers, featured an old pic of a cute kid, but it wasn't him; it was his son, Marquise, who's now 15.  (Photo: Interscope Records)

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50 Cent, 5: Murder by Numbers - 50 Cent's 2012 mixtape, 5: Murder by Numbers, featured an old pic of a cute kid, but it wasn't him; it was his son, Marquise, who's now 15.  (Photo: Interscope Records)

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Obie Trice, Bottoms Up - Eminem affiliate Obie Trice has always had alcohol-themed album titles and 2012's Bottoms Up was no different. But that didn't stop him from using a baby picture for the cover. (Maybe the title refers to a milk bottle?) (Photo: Black Market Entertainment Records)

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Obie Trice, Bottoms Up - Eminem affiliate Obie Trice has always had alcohol-themed album titles and 2012's Bottoms Up was no different. But that didn't stop him from using a baby picture for the cover. (Maybe the title refers to a milk bottle?) (Photo: Black Market Entertainment Records)

Album of the Year: Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city - Kendrick Lamar rocked critics and listeners alike with the release of his debut album good kid, m.A.A.d. city, which went platinum and is considered a classic in many circles. (Photo: Interscope Records)

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Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d. city - Kendrick Lamar's debut, good kid, m.A.A.d. city, was packaged with a picture worth every one of those 1,000 words — an actual photograph of him as a toddler seated at a table with his grandfather and two of his uncles (one of whom was throwing up a gang sign). On the table is a baby bottle, a dried flower bouquet and a 40 ounce. (Photo: Interscope Records)

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