“Rapper Action Bronson and producer Party Supplies’ latest joint mixtape Blue Chips dropped this past week and was accompanied by a piece of cover art that pays homage to the 1994 Nick Nolte-Shaquille O’Neil-Penny Hardaway film of the same name. The cover features an animated image of producer Party Supplies, decked out in a basketball uniform and resembling a young John Stockton, dunking an MPC machine on a non-existent hoop, while an animated, shirtless, and bearded Action Bronson is captured mid-scream in the background.
The mixtape track list features songs that are, for all intents and purposes, unrelated to Blue Chips the film, and according to almost any rubric of design, the concept behind this cover is patently ridiculous. In fact, even the people who watched and actually liked a film where Nick Nolte chews on scenery doing a mediocre Bob Knight impression for 108 minutes can probably admit this is a insane image to slap on the face rap project in 2012. But, in the pantheon of hip-hop mixtape cover art; Blue Chips could be considered a model of subtlety.” Hive Five: Reviewing Ridiculous Mixtape Covers – MTV Hive.
