You Can't Stand It, You Know I Planned It

Back in 2020, I designed a custom card that remains a fan favorite to this day. 

 

 

 

The following year I added a counterpart, featuring another rap trio who might come right out and call you a Sucker M.C.  

 

 

 

I had so much fun with it that I immediately designed a related card, showing those three guys "in action".

 

  

Got to love seeing DMC in their element.

 

But after that card was finished, I moved on to other projects. And time kept going by. Years, in fact. And then, finally, my creative mind started to nag at me. 

 

What about those Beastie Boys? I mean, they certainly put forth their share of action, right? Why don't they have a card to prove it?

 

It was a good question. So I got to work. And now the Beastie Boys finally have that card.

 

 

 

That 1980s-style typography. Those red and blue stripes. Washington Square Park. Adidas sneakers. A skateboard. The Beastie Boys. MCA leaping in the air. 

 

Yeah. That all comes together very nicely, doesn't it?

Here are all four cards together.

 

That's a lot of '80s hip hop goodness.

As for the modified lyric that appears in the title of this blog post, the Beastie Boys wouldn't create it until quite a few years after that photo shown on the card was taken. (Sabotage, 1994) But you can almost picture them saying it there, can't you?

 

And just a reminder: The Beastie Boys weren't just lyricists. They played instruments, too.

 

 

 

I'm happy to have a new custom card in the stable now. Should have designed it sooner!

 

Thanks for reading along, as always.