NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

‘Format’ Reformats Hip Hop, LEGO Style

by Chloé A. Hilliard

December 12, 2008

What should be on every hip-hop fan’s Christmas list? How about LEGOs.

They’re cheap, bring out the kid in us, and by the looks of Format Magazine‘s twist on classic Hip Hop albums make for kick ass cover art.

The Internet publication revisited 20 discs for 20 Classic Hip Hop Album Covers Recreated in LEGO and some of them a pretty damn good.

Love the beard work!

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