Outkast – ATLiens
1996 ~ LaFace Records
As an admitted nerd I couldn’t help but fall in love with this record cover. The comic book style fits in perfectly as the legendary duo went completely left-field with their follow up to Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. While they still spit about the gritty Atlanta scene like they did in their first work, Big Boi and Andre expanded their horizons to talk about time travel, extraterrestrials and introspection into what this thing called life is really about. While I still give the slight edge to Aquemini as being Kast’s best album, I can’t deny that this is easily not only one of their best album covers, but one of Rap’s as well.