Longboxes On 22’s Been Paying Hip-Hop Homage Before Marvel

Yesterday Marvel released a preview for their October comics solicitations. The kicker is that they will have about 50+ Hip-hop cover variants. We saw them do this earlier this year with their variants dedicated to hip-hop crew Run The Jewels. I’ve talked on the great occurrences when comic books were invited to the cool table.  It’s always awesome to see these two different genres mesh. However, Marvel isn’t the first to do this concept. Art By: Mahmud Asrar Over at a tumblr site called Longboxes On 22’s, Julian Lytle and Sean Causley have been doing hip-hop albums mashed up with comic book covers for years. When they discovered another artist Kenny Keil was doing it before them, they paid homage and highlighted his material on their site as well. They’ve also posted up other artists that got down with the idea such as Marco D’ Alfonso, Ronald Wimberly , Michael Axt, and the list goes on and on. Longboxes has been paying homage with their concept for years and that isn’t something that should go unnoticed. Dude, they even made up track listings that went with the theme AS WELL AS LYRICS!

“Out on bail fresh outta hell, Hell Kitchen dreamin Soon as I stepped on the scene, I’m hearin criminals screamin” Disc 1 1. Ambitionz Az A Shadowland Ridah 2. Skandalouz (Feat. Kingpin) 3. Got My Mind Made Up (Feat. Black Panther) 4. 2 of Dark Reigns Most Wanted (Feat. Danny Rand The Iron Hand) 5. No More Pain (aka Stick Training) (the rest can be found here) You have no idea how many time…