The Rap History of Art is a project that draws upon Kevan Cooke's first-class honours degree in Art History, combining it with a long-standing love of Rap and Hip-Hop culture. These two interests are combined in a selection of releases, each based upon one of the great works in the canon of art. For example, debut single The Night Watch, released in December 2024, relocates Rembrandt's famous painting to the streets of Detroit. Similarly, the 2025 single The School of Athens, likens the gathering of great philosophers in Raphael's painting to the gathering of pioneering rap artists in the Compton of the Eighties and Nineties, and The Starry Night takes a drug-fuelled trip through Van Gogh's swirling sky.
As with the other releases in the DJ Bimbles Song Factory stable, these tracks rely heavily upon AI tools. |