As I was browsing this great thing we call the internet earlier today I came across the cover art for an artist by the name of
Asaad's upcoming project which is titled "006." It takes a mere glance to discover what's terribly wrong with the cover art for "006." It features an image of late, great rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur having sex with one another.
In fairness, I've gone ahead and posted Asaad's "reasoning" for this somewhat disturbing cover art he chose to feature. Here goes:
"I want to take this opportunity to explain, in my own words, the picture depicting two artists, whom I consider to be legends and arguably the greatest to ever bless the mic, engaging in homosexual activity. We are now in the day and age where this is no longer considered a taboo. But that is not the main reason why I choose this picture. Throughout the inception of the music business, artists have been continuously cheated out of their royalties and bound by erroneous contracts that essentially ‘screw’ artists over. For the record, I did not intend to release this cover to disrespect the memory or the families of Mr. Tupac Shakur and Mr. Christopher Wallace. They have become iconic, speaking for those like myself, giving the ghetto and less privileged a voice as they spoke about so many different things that affect our culture. Shakur & Wallace started out as comrades, then the industry turned them into human guinea pigs. They were embattled in a music war which ultimately led to their untimely death. In no way am I looking for publicity from this cover. My music speaks for itself..."
I understand that he's trying to make some kind of point, but at the end of the day a cover like this is tremendously disrespectful to the legacy's of both Tupac and Biggie. It seems like Asaad's major issue is with that of the music industry. So why not attack the music industry and not two artists who aren't even alive? And as far as those two artists being "embattled in a music war which ultimately led to their untimely death" this is not fact. No one knows what or who ultimately killed Tupac and Biggie so it's a bit much to say that they were killed because of a "music war" between one another.