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We got Shea Serrano, who co-wrote and illustrated the Rap Coloring Book (out Tuesday, September 17), to comment on drawings from the book done by actual children. You can pre-order it on Amazon.
Can I first say that I'm just so happy with this idea, because kids are the best. And thank you to the parents that let their kids participate, because it's super easy to be a dick about things when your own kids are involved. Love, love, love.
Drake
"My favorite is that his chain is brown because if anybody was ever going to wear a flesh tone necklace it was definitely going to be Drake. This kid is obviously with it."
Danny Brown
"I feel like this kid is probably implying some sort of anti-figurative aesthetic akin to European abstract schools (most likely Bauhaus, or maybe even Futurism), but I don't know for certain. I guess it could also be that he or she just only had a yellow and red crayon. It's probably one of those."
MC Lyte
"I mean, I love that this kid was like, "One thing I know is that this lady's fingers all need to be different colors and I only want to color one small part of her collar and maybe a button. Oh, and I'm gonna give her a blue eyeball." That's a little thing called knowing what you want to accomplish and then doing it. I've never been as confident in anything as this kid is in his or her ideas. Hella jealous."
E-40
"I'm just so overcome with pride right now because somewhere on some playground there's a kid standing at the top of the slide shouting "WOO-WOP! WOO-WOP!" to some other kid that's supposed to be chasing him or her."
Jay Z
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA infinity hearts and smiles I just love this kid sosososo much."
Kanye West
"This kid GETS it. This kid understands the universe in a way that I'll never be able. I'm saying, you can't see it right now, but I'm crying so hard from just being overwhelmed. Give this kid all the everything. There will never be a more insightful piece of Kanye West-themed art."
Big Boi
"This design here is definitely inspired by the Outkast's ATL-iens schtick, which means two things: (1) This kid is hella perceptive and clever and, were I to guess, his or her generation's greatest mind; and (2) The parent of the kid is extra dope. Outkast is, like, about a billion percent better than Raffi."
Questlove
"Is there really even any question at all that the kid that colored this page is operating with a superheroically profound intellectual skill set? The kind of kid that stripes an afro is the same kind of kid that figures out the cure for cancer or figures out how to heat a burrito so that the whole thing come out of the microwave at a consistent temperature middle to ends."
LL Cool J
"Extra credit for this kid because he or she actually did the connect the dots activity before coloring. Good work ethic. America's future is in safe hands."
Ice T
"What's crazy is that I remember reading this story where they had Albert Einstein color in a rap coloring book as a kid and he also chose to color the hair and the skin the exact same color. I'm calling it right now: When this kid gets older, he or she will reshape the way humans think about the space-time continuum. Book that bet."