Nas’ “The World is Yours” Mural

In honor of the 24th anniversary of the landmark hip-hop album, illmatic,  I created this mural poster highlighting the lyric “the fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe.” The lyric serves as nod to the patrons of the museum as well as its curators—hip-hop fans who simply can’t get enough of the genre and its’ cultural influence. As there is presently a mural which reflects the graffiti of 80s’ New York, the curators would like something that represents the 90s’. Utilizing the style of Neville Brody’s 1988 “Just Bounce It” Nike Ad and subsequent advertisements from the shoe company which used similar structure, we’ll be able to display the lyric in a similar fashion to the time period of the album’s release.