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The 20 Worst Mixtape Covers of 2014

'Tis the season to reflect on the worst mixtape covers shared on the Internet this year.

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It's that time of the year again, when we sift through all the music that rappers have released this year to find The 20 Worst Mixtape Covers of 2014. There are some names that you might recognize on the list, including Jose Guapo and Internet phenom IceJJFish, but most of it is reserved for struggle rappers who will always be struggle rappers if they continue to share their music with wack covers like these. From amateur Photoshop work to played-out themes and motifs, these covers are all examples of what you should never attach your work to if you want anyone to take you seriously.

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Slick Bandz, Bout Dat Action

This guy looks terrified enough to accidentally pull the trigger, so we'll leave him alone. However, whoever did the Photoshop on this should not be allowed to design a mixtape cover ever again.

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Joey Sazon, Ebola

While the title for this mixtape seems like it's meant to get attention, the design has our attention for all the wrong reasons. Fun fact: every track on this mixtape is listed as the artist's name, the track number, and “Ebola.”

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J Unit, Representin'

This is hands down the best/worst mixtape cover on the list. This “UK-based comedy hip-hop trio” has it figured out, and with terrible songs like “No 2 Rasism” and “Bbygrl,” Representin' has a perfectly awkward cover. They're the only winners here, if any.

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IceJJFish, Criminal Mind

This should surprise no one. The worst singer (or the greatest troll) ever had to have one of the worst mixtape covers of the year. Had this been a GIF of him dancing, then it would have easily been top 5 of the decade.

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Fly Migo Bankroll, Blame It On My Ambition

Our friends over at Mass Appeal spotted this one first, and they were right: this looks more like an ad for a Disney video game than a mixtape cover. To be more specific, it looks like an ad for a Disney video game CD-ROM from 1993 that would have been slipped inside a VHS box with coupons and some mail-in offer. If that's what they were going for, then they definitely nailed it.

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Fetus Gang 420, F**k You Rich White Boy (Instrumentals)

With names like DJ Semen, DJButtsecks, and DJ KillYoSelf, we could have predicted that this mixtape cover would be this awful. We assume that it's all a part of the joke, but aren't jokes supposed to be funny? And is that fetus smoking crack?

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Genocide Beats, StruggleLife

The title of the project pretty much says it all...Strugglelife. The mixtape description on DatPiff says that it “embodies the journey of a young man from age 15 to age 25 and truly shows how things can be for those less privileged,” but that's not the vibe we get from a sad clown sandwich.

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Gary Styles, Durag Warriors Vol. 1

For the love of God, can we please have a release date for Durag Warriors Vol. 2!? Everything about this is bad, from the symmetry to the shoddy Photoshop work, not to mention the fact that there are four durags on it, and two of them are on mannequin heads. Parents be advised: don't let your kids grow up to make shit like this.

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Sweet!Creeper, Cookies and Creep!

This cover actually made us hate soft serve for a minute. This person's Photoshopping privileges should be revoked, immediately.

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LBA, LBA Mixtape

The Lame Bro Alliance (we actually have no idea if that's what LBA stands for) took the very cliché Mount Rushmore theme and ran with it. They probably got so many props in middle school when this dropped.

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DJ Found Dead, L!V3S

You're trying way too hard, guy.

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Jose Guapo, Osama Bin Guapo

We've commented on the tastelessness of this already, so we won't beat a dead horse, but damn. Forget 2014, this may be the worst mixtape cover of all time. It looks like they have since swapped it for a photo of a man wearing a keffiyeh, but the decision should have been made sooner.

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DJ 876, We Flies First Class

Where do we start with this one? That lady probably isn't even a real flight attendant, and we have a nagging suspicion that this plane isn't really going to Jamaica.

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Brill-iant, Excalibur: The Sword And The Stone Vol 1.

Ignoring the fact that he is mixing references for this cover, why didn't the guy just scale his face down a bit to fit the existing photo? And why couldn't he just stick to one typeface?

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White Django, Mormon Underpants

We're sure someone is going to argue in the comments that this is intentionally bad and shouldn't be on the list, but we don't care. Bad is bad, even if it's hilarious. Virtually no one has listened to this project on DatPiff, probably because of this cover, which is a shame because it's not terrible…it's not good, but it's also not IceJJFish.

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Big Bezzy Fo Shezzy, It Is What It Is (Revisited) Vol. 23

Taking a screenshot from a popular movie trailer and slapping it on your half-assed mixtape is not the way to get people to listen to your music. That jedi mind trick won't work this time.

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O The Great, My Old Sh#T

Really? We give up.

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Ice Life, 59 Reasons

The artist wrote on DatPiff that he is “riding on my high horse because I'm trying to live life.” Someone should explain to him what an idiom is.

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Soopi G, Disintegration II

#Gratata, swag b*tch!

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