Kurtis Blow – “The Breaks” single cover
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The cover of Kurtis Blow’s seminal 12″ single record—the first hip-hop single to go gold—uses the classic trio of typefaces popular with the 70s and 80s album cover designers: Prisma, ITC Tiffany, and Times New Roman.
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This wasn’t the first time Prisma appeared on a Kurtis Blow record. In 1979 a special promo edition of the Christmas Rappin’ album cover used Prisma along with Times New Roman, see below.
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