dorothy puts a stamp on classic hip hop albums
UK-based Dorothy has released a new print that reimagines 42 seminal hip-hop albums as a series of oversized postage stamps, beginning with the 1982 breakthrough album The Message by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five. Titled ‘Stamp Album: Hip-Hop’, the poster weaves its way through 41 other classic albums in chronological order.
These include: Run-DMC and their 1984 self-titled album, Public Enemy and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Beastie Boys and Paul’s Boutique, A Tribe Called Quest and The Low End Theory, Wu-Tang Clan and Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Fugees and The Score, Missy Elliott and Supa Dupa Fly, Lauryn Hill and The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, Eminem and The Slim Shady LP, Jay-Z and The Blueprint, Kanye West and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Kendrick Lamar and To Pimp a Butterfly. Finally, the print concludes with the latest self-titled and politically charged album from Run the Jewels.
the print features 42 classic albums in chronological order
6-color litho print with album-inspired graphics
Dorothy (see more here) featured on each stamp a graphic inspired in some way by the album or its tracks, the release date, its running time, and the original label it was released on. The final design is a 6-color litho print measuring 80cm x 60cm and adorned with an additional silver foil mimicking a perforation.
‘Stamp Album: Hip-Hop’ joins eight others in Dorothy’s bestselling Stamp Collection range, which also celebrate seminal post-punk, post-rock, psych, electronic and alternative albums. You can purchase this new print from the studio’s website for £35 / €40 / $42.
beginning with the 1982 breakthrough album The Message by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
albums by Jay-Z, J Dilla, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and Run the Jewels tie up the hip-hop history lesson
