10 Worst Album and Single Artwork (Ever)

At RESPECT. we love highlighting what we believe to the best artwork, as we did a few weeks ago. But sometimes, the worst has its charms as well. For your entertainment we selected some of the most ridiculous, hideous and just plain outrageous album and single artwork out there.

10. This cover puts Mc Pooh‘s face in an intimate location. This could have been very cool, but why the hell is he wearing shades? More importantly, the phrase “Funky As I Wanna Be” does not imply good things when you’re centimeters away from an anus.

9. Ice T? Is that you and Miss Coco? Coco, as per usual looks very sexy. This cover carries a wanna-be Romeo and Juliette vibe. But between the black bed sheets, dramatic candle light and the not-so-subtle gun on the night stand, this cover is just way too much.

8. “I don’t want nuthin’ goin’ down my throat I can’t get a grip on,” he says. I think this one is self-explanatory.

7. As a general rule objectifying woman is wrong, no matter how many of our favorite artists do it. Objectifying woman to the point of being compared to a chicken leg – that’s apparently not salty enough- is something that could never be pulled off, even if the music is excellent. Also, we’ve all eaten chicken breasts before, but why is there a sexualized chicken with human breasts in the corner of the album? Ummmmm…

6. Cree-py. This dark, poorly Photoshopped cover would be featured in this list even if it were only the photograph of Bizarre wearing a shower cap.

5. It’s important to point out this is Lil’ Kim‘s cover for her debut solo album entitled “Hardcore.” There is nothing that portrays strength more than a white polar bear’s head, red flowers and an un-open bottle of champagne with two empty flutes.

4. You would hope that someone signed to Dr. Dre‘s Aftermath Entertainment record label (up until 2010) would make a wiser choice than comparing himself to the Pope, but apparently not. At least we now know what a pimped-out version of the Pope would look like.3. This cover will makes you smile. Let’s hope they were going for jolly and not sexy. Check out the woman at Luke’s right; she just seems so content. We’ll assume those are bubbles on her chin, but we’ve never seen bubbles look like that…

2. This cover will make you feel uncomfortable. Their artistic choices are confusing, to say the least. From the title to Low G and Rasheed‘s decision to be chained up with a god-like halo behind them, the entire thing is baffling. And the title doesn’t help

1. Most Rudy Ray Moore album covers feature his nude body accompanied beautiful woman. But why did it have to go this far? Why did he decide to offer any person passing by a selection of 12 illustrated sexual position? Did he pick them strategically or at random? The music he produces isn’t nearly as dirty as his cover-art. Also, I would like to point out his decision to have a very generous censure bar over his private-area. Proportion wise, his censure bar is as large as the woman’s censure bar which covers her entire chest: side boob to side boob. Common Dolemite.

Bonus: It might not be a hip-hop cover. But anything involving smiling men, dead babies and ribs deserves a spot for being the worst: