20 Paintings Improved by Rappers

Updating the classics.

Not Available Lead
Complex Original

Image via Complex Original

Not Available Lead

Whether or not a rapper has saved your life, rappers have certainly improved a lot of famous paintings. We're talking rappers like Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and A$AP Rocky, and paintings like American Gothic, The Mona Lisa, and The Scream. It's easy to take them for granted, but we're here to remind you of 20 Paintings Improved by Rappers that you may have forgotten.

RELATED: 25 Photos of Rappers Looking at Art
RELATED: 50 Photos of Celebrities with Cameras

Images by Simon Jones.

Dempsey and Firpo by George Bellows (1924)

Not Available Interstitial

In The Car by Roy Lichtenstein (1963)

Not Available Interstitial

Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp (1912)

Not Available Interstitial

Freedom From Want by Norman Rockwell (1943)

Not Available Interstitial

Napoleon Crossing The Alps by Jacques-Louis David (1800)

Not Available Interstitial

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1881)

Not Available Interstitial

Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger (1536-37)

Not Available Interstitial

Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley (1768)

Not Available Interstitial

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci (1495-98)

Not Available Interstitial

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze (1851)

Not Available Interstitial

The Scream by Edvard Munch (1921)

Not Available Interstitial

American Gothic by Grant Wood (1930)

Not Available Interstitial

Birth Of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1486)

Not Available Interstitial

Muhammed Ali by Andy Warhol (1977-79)

Not Available Interstitial

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1503–1519)

Not Available Interstitial

Jesus Christ Fresco (1930)

Not Available Interstitial

Washington by Gilbert Stuart (1796)

Not Available Interstitial

Snap The Whip by Winslow Homer (1872)

Not Available Interstitial

Aggressively Mediocre/Mentally Challenged/Fantasy Island by Miguel Calderon (1998)

Not Available Interstitial

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper (1942)

Not Available Interstitial

Latest in Style