Ready To Die Album Cover
From Complex’s 50 Best Hip-Hop Album Covers. Though the similarities to Illmatic earned the artwork some detractors, time has proven the Ready To Die artwork to be an incredibly strong image in.
Ready To Die Album Cover
Follow Keithroy Yearwood’s actions as an infant led to some serious cool-kid cred in high school. And claimed to be the baby on the cover of Ready To Die, Notorious B.I.G.’s classic debut album. He joins other famous cover babies who have revealed their identities in recent years, like (aka the swimming Nirvana “Nevermind” baby) and (aka the bumblebee girl on Blind Melons’ self-titled album).
Ready To Die Album Cover Poster
There’s also Nicole Fiorentino, the current bassist for the Smashing Pumpkins., though the assistant photographer on the shoot said that to be the child model. ( More on TIME.com: ) Yearwood, an 18-year-old senior at Wallkill Valley Regional High School, always knew he was the cover star of Ready To Die, but he didn’t realize the implications of the album on the rap world until he was older. “When I first found out about it, it wasn’t a big deal to me,” he told the. “Now, of course, it’s a big deal to me.” Unfortunately, Bad Boy Records (Sean “Diddy” Combs’ label) could not confirm that Yearwood was the baby. They said the records were lost, and all that was certain of was that the baby was chosen from a modeling agency. Yearwood’s mother, however, held onto the original contract from the shoot.