Thursday, April 12, 2012

Album Cover artwork for Dirty Rappers track "Buttaface"

here's the artwork for the forthcoming single by The Dirty Rappers entitled "butta face" which is a song about girls. before you stop me and say "that's mean" there's actually a funny story behind it.. so we're in dublin for the King wedding. our camera at the time didn't have the biggest memory card and we had just spent the past few days exploring the extremely photogenic west coast of ireland.. so i had to get some stuff off of there to make room for the rest of the trip.. at the time i had not brought my laptop so my big plan was to use the hotel's computer in the business center and dump the pictures to that and then burn them to disk. since the hotel's computer was a shared computer i also was planning on deleting our pictures off there when i was done. you would think that most other people would think along the same lines as me.. and for the most part they did.

the hotel had a PC and the obvious place to put pictures on a PC (even if temporarily) would be in the folder called "my pictures" .. well before i even got the pictures transferred from my camera i noticed that the "my pictures" folder had exactly one picture in it. so i checked it out and it turned out to be the photo that was used for the "Buttaface" artwork. i would go so far as to venture that the person who left that picture on the hotel computer did it on purpose. i'll even take that a step further and say that the person who purposefully left their self-portrait on the hotel's computer would have wanted me to copy that file to disk and use it for some kind of album artwork..

now, whether or not she had intended it to be a Dirty Rappers album cover that she graced is up for debate. sometimes you just get more than you bargain for though. bleezy had always wanted to do a song called "Buttaface" so this seemed like the perfect opportunity. we never did get around to recording that song but, boy, when we do there is an album cover just waiting to be pressed...