Artist Uses Carmelo Anthony, Steph Curry, and Other NBA Stars to Recreate Classic Hip Hop Album Covers

Here's what several classic hip hop album covers would look like if NBA stars were on the front of them.

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Have you ever wondered what classic hip hop albums like 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin', Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready to Die, or Nas' Illmatic would look like with NBA players on the front of them? Eh, probably not. But we bet you're wondering what it'd look like now that we brought it up! And thanks to New Jersey-based artist Jesse Nuñez, we can show you.

Nuñez just took a bunch of classic album covers and recreated them using NBA superstars. The result is the album cover above as well as this:

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This:

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And—our personal favorite—this:

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You can check out more of Nuñez's work here. Pretty cool, huh?

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[via Behance]

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