The laws of gravity, physics and proportion simply didn’t apply. Infamous for their unmissable album covers for the stars of Dirty South rap – Geto Boys, Juvenile, Master P, Lil Wayne and Mystikal, plus former Death Row affiliate Snoop Dogg on the West Coast – the look was unmistakable and outlandish, crude and disproportionate drag-and-drop layers that were gleefully unreal. While the young Chamillionaire looked impatiently to his future, the Houston graphic design house that he namechecked, Pen & Pixel Graphics, was hitting its peak. Now they takin’ pictures of the drop when I unfold the top Knew the pictures wasn’t real, Pen and Pixel known to crop Went to Pen and Pixel, asked to help ’em with the Photoshop Hit the money spot, couldn’t pull no money out On the track “Successful,” Cham revisited his pre-fame self, with lyrics that are both a lament to his youth of poverty in 1990s Houston, and an up-yours to the female school peers who ignored him, despite his ambitions: In August 2009, Houston artist Chamillionaire released Mixtape Messiah 7, the final instalment in his self-released series.
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