![]() ![]() "I used to just look at the covers like, 'how you do this?'" Warrington downloaded a copy of PaintShop Pro X2 and attempted to make his own mixtape covers, which, in retrospect, he says looked terrible. ![]() "All the latest Lil Wayne and Gucci mixtapes," he says. Around the time Warrington was 12 or 13, his older brother Carl began playing all the latest hip-hop cuts on DatPiff, one of the more popular sites for hosting mixtapes. That interest in technology eventually manifested itself into a growing interest in mixtape art. ![]() "We re-did the whole tower added blue LED lights with a clear case." "It was an old HP with a tower," he says. "I never played with action figures, I just love computers." The 18-year-old Warrington-who was born and raised on Chicago's South Side and eventually moved to a suburb south of the city called Matteson-still fondly recalls helping his uncle build a computer at the tender age of 5. "It's just something about computers I love," he says. Warrington's burgeoning design career came out of a lifelong interest in computers. 10, 2010, Warrington has helped shape part of the image of Chicago's rising rap scene, producing raw, striking artwork for mixtapes by a number of the city's notable MCs. It's the kind of mixtape cover that its creator, Cartier "Cardy" Warrington, always wanted to make. ![]() It's a world in which Keef is so wealthy that even the air surrounding him is filled with transparent Louis Vuitton logos. That glamorous future is fully realized on the cover artwork for Finally Rich: There's Chief Keef in front of a gigantic gold-tinted mansion, surrounded by cars, women, and credit cards. ![]()
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