He doesn’t do these big crazy covers, all of his stuff is pretty simple. When I saw it all come together and I finished it, that’s when it hit me that it was Kendrick. He could have done a bunch of things but, you know, there are people who are receiving it very well, so it’s cool. But it is radically different from everything else that I do because most of what I do is comic work, illustrations, concept art and things of that nature, and its heavily stylized and stuff like that. I told myself I’m gonna at least shade each talon, render that in the best of what I can, and then that’s how it happened. The thing is I didn’t want to approach it with a simple mindset. They wanted the talons and I was like okay, I could do that. I noticed it’s different from your other artwork, too. It’s only a matter of time because people know that I do it. It’s spreading. It’ll probably be more like ‘Oh sh*t.’ You know, but to see peoples’ reactions to it and see people like it and write articles about it is pretty cool even though I’m still in the shadows. I think once people get wind of, ‘Oh this guy also is doing that stuff and that stuff and that stuff,’ I think, it’ll probably have more gravitas to it. So it’s good to have that mindset of like eh, small contributions to it. I mean, your fans and stuff like that care and people who know who you are but like the general public if you were to go on the street and say, ‘Yo!’ they’re probably gonna look at you like ‘Cool, cool, that’s nice.’ A friend of mine said something really funny: in an alternate reality this made your chest stick out and in another, you went to a club and you tried to hit on some girl with the line, ‘Oh yeah I designed the cover of the Black Panther soundtrack,’ and she was just totally like, ‘Man, you ain’t act in the sh*t, so what?” It’s really weird because it’s… you can be like, ‘Aw man, I drew that!’ and nobody really cares. I saw that Trevor Noah shared the album cover on The Daily Show. How has it been seeing it everywhere, iTunes, Spotify, etc? What’s weird is that they got my info from Disney, but I don’t work for them.Ī post shared by Nikolas A. So I asked, ‘Is it Kendrick?’ He’s like, ‘Yep!’ So you know, it was a lot of pressure. I didn’t want to say who I thought it was because I didn’t want to insult whoever it was. I felt like I knew who it was and my roommate kind of called it. Once I found out it was Kendrick, there was like all this pressure because I’m like, ‘Aw, crap.’ He hinted that it’s probably one of the most influential artists in the world right now and in hip-hop. They said, ‘If you can get some sketches over to us tonight…’ They told me what they were looking for and then I said, ‘Well, I can try to do that tonight,’ so I knocked it out.īut, I wasn’t satisfied when I sent it. They just told me, ‘We need some art for the Black Panther soundtrack,’ and I fell out of my chair. They got my info from Disney and they reached out through Instagram. I didn’t know it was for Kendrick at the time. Nikolas Draper-Ivey: Interscope reached out to me. VIBE: How did you end up doing the Black Panther soundtrack cover?
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