Marvel pays homage to classic Hip Hop album covers with 50+ variants

Marvel has featured a few hip hop acts in its comics over the years, from Run The Jewels variant covers, or that one Spider-Man variant with Birdman, or the time Eminem and the Punisher went on a shooting spree.

So, unsurprisingly, Marvel’s homage to the hip hop universe is about to culminate in an ambitious project hitting us in October. A new series of variant covers will have Marvel characters paying tribute to the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Old school and new. Honestly some don’t deserve to be up there, but hey, to each his own, huh?

There’s supposed to be a whopping 50+ variants, but here is a few Marvel have released so far alongside the hip-hop albums they are modelled off of:
 

ANT-MAN #1

Based on Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die
Art by Mark Brooks
 

SPIDER-MAN/DEADPOOL #1

Based on Eric B. & Rakim’s Paid In Full
Art by Dave Johnson
 

DOCTOR STRANGE #1

Based on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic
Art by Juan Doe
 

HOWARD THE DUCK #1

Based on Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Return To the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
Art by Juan Doe
 

IRON MAN #1

Based on 50 Cent’s Get Rich Or Die Tryin’
Art by Brian Stelfreeze
 

MS. MARVEL #1

Based on Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Art by Jenny Frison
 

SAM WILSON, CAPTAIN AMERICA #1

Based on A$AP Rocky’s Long.Live.A$AP
Art by Mahmud Asrar
 

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1

Based on A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders
Art by Mike Del Mundo
 

SQUADRON SUPREME #1

Based on The Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the 36 Chambers
Art by Mike Del Mundo
 

THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #1

Based on Tyler, The Creator’s Wolf
Art by Phil Noto
 

EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #1

Based on De La Soul’s 3 Feet High And Rising
Art by Sanford Greene