The worst album covers ever #2: hip-hop

Luke - I Got Shit On My Mind

Let's be honest: ridiculing any musical genre that calls Vanilla Ice one of its own is akin to shooting fish in a barrel.

On the other hand, have you ever tried shooting fish in a barrel? Fun for hours!

Recently, MusicRadar kicked off a series called The Worst Album Covers Ever, with our inaugural feature harpooning the lamest and most ludicrous cover art that heavy metal ever spewed forth.

And because we're equal opportunity hecklers, we now turn our cringing, disbelieving (OK, bursting-out-laughing) faces to the world of hip-hop, which has no shortage of album cover wretchedness.

At its best, hip-hop is a vital, challenging, creative musical force in which social commentary is delivered as poetry over beats and instrumentation that rock the body and the senses.

These albums don't do that. Well, they might but you wouldn't know it from their covers.

Enough talk (except for a quick 'WARNING! Some of these are verging on the NSFW but only if you work in a place of worship with a public-facing computer or something').

Hip-hop? We love you man, but sometimes a man's gotta shoot a fish, you know?

Big Bear - Doin Thangs

Hell Rell - Just For The Hell Of It

Vanilla Ice - To The Extreme

Devastatin' Dave (The Turntable Slave) - Zip Zap Rap

Pooh-Man (MC Pooh) - Funky As I Wanna Be

Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped

Tony Tee - Time To Get Physical

Vanilla Ice - Cool As Ice soundtrack

The Rappin' Mathematician - Volume 1

Iceberg - Gangsta Rap

Hammer - Too Legit To Quit

Black Jesus - T.G.S.N.T.

Sumthin' Terrible - U 2tupid

he 2 Live Crew - As Nasty As They Wanna Be

Spank Rock and Benny Blanco are... Bangers & Cash

Suitcase Sam - Rappin' In The Country With Suitcase Sam

Vanilla Ice - Extremely Live

New Recruits - Torpedo Alert

Indo G Presents... Christmas N' Memphis (Christmas Will Never Be The Same)

Lupe Fiasco - Food And Liquor

Insane Clown Posse - Amazing Jeckel Brothers

Lil' Flip - The Leprechaun

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