Master P himself used the flag to reference the famous “Say hello to the bad guy” scene from Scarface in 2006. In ’99, elsewhere in New Orleans, a teenage Lil Wayne wore patriotic underpants on the cover of his first solo album. (God, those Pen & Pixel No Limit covers were always so amazing.)
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That same year, New Orleans’ Full Blooded, a “soldier” in Master P’s No Limit Records “army,” wore fatigues and dug up Arlington Cemetery with his hands on the cover of his Memorial Day album.
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In 1998, the Geto Boys depicted a young person smoking crack in front of the White House, with Uncle Sam looking on and the stars-n-stripes adorning the album title. Ten years earlier, in 1994, fellow Bay Area rapper Spice 1 had taken a more Ice-Cube like approach. A single from album, “ Dreganomics,” espouses living life, “royal, spoiled, the American way.”
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The late Bay Area legend Mac Dre spoofed Bush’s predecessor on the excellent cover to his 2004 album, Ronald Dregan. Bush was in office, and the album included the song, “ I Wanna Kill Sam.” Ice Cube’s usage of the flag was less reverent back in 1991. Originally an Outkast acolyte, the great Atlanta rapper Killer Mike used a black-and-white flag with skull-n-crossbone stars for his first independent album in 2006.Īlso from Atlanta, also in 2008, Young Jeezy draped himself in a flag on the cover of his album, The Recession, which featured the celebratory single, “ My President.” (“My President” featured a guest appearance from Nas, who had posed in front of the stars-and-stripes for the cover of XXL magazine earlier that year.) This past summer, Jay-Z and Kanye used a blurry, Jasper Johnsish flag as the cover for their single, “Otis.”īut ASAP’s cover is most reminiscent of the one Outkast used eleven years ago for the Stankonia album. What interests me most, though, is the use of the American flag in the image, which places ASAP Rocky in a long tradition in rap.
That last part shouldn’t be as newsworthy as it is. The Harlem rapper recently signed a three-million-dollar deal with Sony subsidiary Polo Grounds Music and denounced homophobia in an interview with Pitchfork. Here’s the new track from ASAP Rocky, whose debut mixtape, Live, Love ASAP comes out today.
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