Chocolate and peanut butter.
Flowers and bees.
Chess and hip-hop.
Some things were made to be together.
The directive for this one: make a King and a Rook look like rappers. Not unlike Tupac, this rapper was shot down for being too edgy.
Hmm, How do you make a rapper more family friendly? Why going back in time when rappers rapped about having a good time and nothing else, that’s what you do!
I went for a vintage, I mean “old school”, look. Of course the powers that be ( I mean, the “man”) shot this down on the grounds that kids won’t “get” the reference to the 80’s. Personally, I disagree. That’s like saying I wouldn’t have recognized a hippie as a child, because that, too, was 20 years before my time. Jeez, I’m old.
Speaking of being old and out of touch, I was instructed to give them modern rap duds. Oh, and I was told not to make the pants too baggy, after all schools are having a problem with that.
So there you go. Rapping chess pieces.
I already blabbed about this on facebook but the post popped up in my google reader so I’ll blab on some more about how I’d like to see the guys in the bottom pic team up to fight giant robots and explore social issues. Kind of like the old Green Lantern/Green Arrow stories only with chess and hip hop and giant robots and social issues.
Easily the most awesome homage to public enemy are in the first two images and the fact that they were shot down makes me sad. I like them a lot more than the final ones.
Thanks!
I knew we’d have problems depicting a rapper in the first place.
I thought Flavor Flav isn’t too threating, but then again, what do I know?