egotrip Unveils Original "Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star" Album Cover

Complex Art Director Brent Rollins takes us behind the scenes of the classic album cover and reveals the original.

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Before kicking it with Complex as Art Director, Brent Rollins was lending his creative brain to egotrip, one of the most influential hip-hop magazines to date. During his time there, he played a part in many great things, including egotrip's Book of Rap Lists, revered today by some as the Bible of Hip-Hop. Another one of his great accomplishments was directing the album cover for 1998's Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star

egotrip recently sat down with Brent to discuss the making of the album cover. During their interview, he revealed that the artwork we see today is not his original design and that Rawkus altered his originally-submitted cover. Read an excerpt below and head over to egotripland.com to read the interview in all its revealing glory.

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[via egotripland]

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