РІР‚СљThe only shirts in existence are the 40 to 50 samples I kept.Р”Р„t the time, Shawn had no idea what sort of impact their work with Cash Money and No Limit would have decades later. РІР‚СљWe have no idea what happened,РІР‚Сњ says Shawn. They also wound up designing a line of T-shirts for Cash Money called Hot Boys Wear, though the 10,000 tees they printed disappeared before they made it to retail. But their most iconic projects came from their work with No Limit and Cash Money, which included JuvenileРІР‚в„ўs 400 Degreez and Master PРІР‚в„ўs The Last Don, among countless others. standing in front of a rainstorm of bullets on his Chopper City album, or Snoop Dogg sitting outside of a mansion with a Rolls Royce and dogs wearing diamond-encrusted muzzles on the cover of Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told, every cover Pen & Pixel created was memorable. (Image via Shawn Brauch/Pen & Pixel)Р”В«y 1995, business was going so well the Brauch brothers moved to a 5,000 square foot facility in a Houston office park. Left to right: Aaron and Shawn Brauch, co-founders of Pen & Pixel. Their first РІР‚СљofficeРІР‚Сњ was a 2,000 square foot apartment, but that didnРІР‚в„ўt stop rappers from finding them.

Shawn served as lead graphic designer, while Aaron became the president of the company. After a year, they decided it was time to start their own venture, and Pen & Pixel was born. In 1992, Shawn Brauch and his brother Aaron were working for Rap-A-Lot Records as a graphic designer and general manager, respectively, when they began getting outside requests to do album covers for local artists like Trinity Garden Cartel and 8 Ball & MJG. Today, over a decade after the company folded, the art style that made these covers famous is now being used for a new purpose-to sell clothing. In an era when most rap covers were dark and dull, Pen & Pixel created images that were the polar opposite with their over-the-top depictions of the luxury and violence that ruled the Southern rap scene in the late РІР‚В90s and early 2000s.

Diamonds, fire, expensive cars, and women all accented by blinged out fonts are just some of the elements that have become the Houston-based companyРІР‚в„ўs calling card. ItРІР‚в„ўs stood the test of time and for a certain generation - itРІР‚в„ўs their version of РІР‚СљBefore I Let GoРІР‚Сњ by Maze and Frankie Beverly.ThereРІР‚в„ўs no mistaking an album cover designed by Pen & Pixel Graphics. Whether you like РІР‚СљBack That Thang UpРІР‚Сњ or the more raunchier version, you know where you were when you first heard those epic violins and the preamble to the twerk constitution.

ItРІР‚в„ўs the second and most popular single from JuvenileРІР‚в„ўs 400 Degreez album which turned 20 on November 3, 1998.Р”Р„pparently, somebody at Cash Money got the memo of the significance of РІР‚СљBack That Thang UpРІР‚Сњ turning 20 because landmark Cash Money albums from B.G.Р’В to the Big Tyers and the Hot BoysР’В all arrived on streaming services on Friday.

Every dancefloor in America has had at least one moment where time stood still and all the ladies reported to twerk.

Same for Wayne with his most important guest appearance.

Juvenile saying РІР‚СљCash Money taking over for the РІР‚в„ў99 and the 2000РІР‚Сњ isnРІР‚в„ўt on the explicit version of the song but rather the clean version.

Yes, feel old guys - РІР‚СљBack That Azz UpРІР‚Сњ turns 20.

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