To Pimp A Butterfly

Music has been celebrated for centuries, and comes in varieties. Pop, rock, and rap are just some examples of different kinds of music. However music need just unique cover art to represent it. These album covers are similar and different in many tonal and structural details. For one of my album covers I choose Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, no title or artist name is present on the cover and the parental advisory sicker lays in the right hand corner. The cover is grayscale, depicting a crowd with money outside the White House. A man lays on the ground, his eyes closed and drawn over with X’s. Kendrick Lamar is not present on the cover of the album. The second album I choose was Say Anything’s In Defense of the Genre, in which both title and author are presented on the album cover. The cover uses bright complementary colors while depicting older people and children clashing. The ages ranging from elderly to infant, armed with weapons and armor. A castle sits on a cliff on the right hand side while dark hills and clouds drape

With In Defense of the Genre the focus is on the outer edges on the cover with a clear vantage point down the middle. The placement of To Pimp a Butterfly is completely different with the focus on the middle crowd and the setting tucked into the edges and background. Text also plays into account of the overall image, the lack of information gives a sense of how well the artist is known or what they have to prove on a cover. To Pimp a Butterfly lacks and information on the artist or the title of the album, this could be due to Kendrick Lamar’s popularity and the known anticipation for this album. In Defense of the Genre gives all the information on the band and album title, Say Anything seems to be more of an unfamiliar group but they consistently use the same font for the band name. These aspects appeal to the audiences known information on the