Terrible Cover Art Appreciation: Doin Thangs

Being one of those damned dirty purists who still buys physical copies of music, I'm always on the lookout for interesting cover art. Sometimes album artwork is so compelling that it garners my interest in the music. Sometimes the art ends up being the best part of the music. And other times, the art is so glaringly bad that it's beyond words. Which is why, today, I bring you this, from little known rapper Big Bear's 1998 album Doin Thangs:

This is one of those things that's so bad that it crosses several lines back and forth to the point where you can't possibly hate it. Like a long lost No Limit Records cover art project, it's so bad that it promotes discussion and analyzation rather than outright dismissal. It's terrible, yet is so matter-of-factly comfortable with how terrible it is, therefore making it appealing.

In your mind you think to bring attention to the hack Photoshopping job: the overabundant lens flairs, the outer glow, the way certain objects are chopped off nonsensically, the lack of necessary apostrophe's. But then you notice how nonchalantly Big Bear sits in the center of it all with a look on his face as if to say, "Yeah, I hang out with bears in a cave feasting in expensive robes while smoking cigars. What of it?", and dammit, you just can't bring yourself to argue with that.