The planned cover for a hip-hop album due to be released in November 2001 depicted an exploding World Trade Center.
album by the hip-hop group The Coup which was scheduled for release in November 2001. The cover depicted The Coup with an exploding World Trade Center in the background; group member DJ Pam the Funktress waved two sticks held between thumbs and forefingers while"Boots" Riley displayed what looked like a detonator :I came up with the idea with the photographer. We took the pictures on May 15, and we were done with it by the beginning of June.
The cover art was only preliminary, and after the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., the artwork was pulled from the web site of the group's label and redesigned before the release date, with the album eventually being released with a very different cover design: Although the image of World Trade Center towers billowing smoke and flame were used as a backdrop for the original artwork, the New York skyline was not visible in the image, nor were any airplanes shown crashing into the towers. The artwork was supposedly intended to depict the destruction of a generic"tall building" and thus was not a harbinger of recent events, although by coincidence it did prove to be disturbingly congruent with the horrors of 11 September 2001.
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