Oh, hip-hop. If there’s one thing the most American of musical forms is not known for, it’s self-restraint. A perfect place to see this in action, is the album cover – that 5″x5″ square that sums up in a single image what the record is about. The following twenty covers are so amazingly terrible that they’d make records scratch all by themselves. Ready to get funky?

DA BRAT – Da Brat. Photoshop gone bad!

BIG BEAR – Doin’ Thangs. No pile of bling-bling, only nuts and berries. But why?

SOUTH COAST SHORTY – The Hot Girl. Hot girl? Seriously?

SPANK ROCK AND BENNY BLANCO – Bangers and Cash. Cellulite and oil?

LIL RASCAL – Like A Grown As Man. Pronounce it longer.. it’s grown assss man. Love the looooong car!

See the rest of all the crazy covers here