The Decade the Sleeve Went Synthetic - The 1980s
The 1980s was the decade when album sleeves went fully synthetic: Xerox, airbrush, early CGI and MTV logic. Here are the ten greatest covers of the era, ranked.
Category
De La Soul
From the daisy covered brilliance of 3 Feet High and Rising to the darker world of De La Soul Is Dead; the stories behind one of hip hop's most visually distinctive catalogues.
Stories
Da Inner Sound, Y'all
3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul - I came to this album backwards. Through De La Soul Is Dead, back to the beginning. I didn't know any of the songs. And then I pressed play. Here's the story behind the cover that changed hip hop.