Vizualize: J. Cole Covers The Source

J. Cole covers The Source’s Green Issue, on newsstands everywhere March 23rd.

Vizualize: Nicki Minaj Covers The FADER

Someone loves Young Money… FADER’s website top 3 most popular posts are for Bedrock, Foreverand Drake’s Fader cover story. If its bringing in money, why hate, right?

Vizualize: Obama’s Cover Essence Magazine

President Obama and Michelle Obama cover March 2010’s Essence Magazine. This issue they discuss education, so make sure to pick that up.

Vizualize: Lindsay Lohan Goes Jesus On Us

Photographer Terry Richardson shot Lindsay Lohan a la Jesus for the latest cover of French Purple Fashion magazine. This is what “irony” is, in case you’ve been looking for the PERFECT EXAMPLE.

Vizualize: Lil Wayne Covers Rolling Stone

Old pic from an old shoot, but new cover story. Rolling Stone Magazine sat and chat a bit with Lil Wayne who was about to confront what was waiting for him.

This issue hit news stands today.

For a decade, Lil Wayne has been hip-hop’s great unstoppable force, a 24-hour-a-day recording machine without an off button. But on February 9th, Lil Wayne will have to stop — for 12 months, when he reports to prison to serve a sentence for gun possession stemming from a 2007 arrest in New York City. Rolling Stone stays up all night with Weezy as he prepares to get locked down…

“I don’t like to stop,” Wayne tells RS‘ Chris Norris. “I believe you stop when you die.” So in the weeks before he reports to Rikers Island, Wayne is keeping busy — recording tracks bound for Tha Carter IV (the album Cash Money staffers call “C4″ because it’ll be the bomb), shooting videos with his Young Money protégés, spending time with his growing family, and deliberately not asking anyone for advice about life on the inside. “This is Lil Wayne going to jail. Nobody I can talk to can tell me what that’s like,” he says. “I just say I’m looking forward to it.”

Vizualize: Jay-Z Covers Kingsize Magazine

Looking like Reasonable Doubt Jay.

The ROC4LIFE site recently threw up scans from Jigga’s feature in Kingsize but Kanye’s blog just upped the cover.

Below is his brief Access Hollywood interview with Billy Bush. Speaks on Daniel Julez Smith Jr. (Solange’s kid) coming on stage with him, his favorite moment of the awards and puts a little pressure on Usher.

Vizualize: Birdman Covers Urban Ink Magazine

Birdman covers the latest issue of Urban Ink, and why wouldn’t he… remember this?

Drake Covers December’s VIBE

No, its not Drake day here at SwiftVizion.

NahRight:

VIBE Magazine’s relaunch includes Drake on one cover, and Chris Brown on the other. VIBE’s blog entry for Drake is called “Everybody Loves Drake” because Chris Brown’s is called Everybody Hates Chris, which is pretty clever.

Eminem Covers Complex

For the Jan/Feb issue, Complex E-I-C Noah Callahan-Bever sits with Em and discuss his comeback album, drugs, Relapse 2 and… streaming porn.

Here’s a snip of the interview:

When the details of Michael Jackson’s death came to light, did you see any parallels?

Eminem: Oh, 100 percent. When you read things about Michael Jackson it’s hard to decipher what the fuck is true, but there’s the story of how he woke up at whatever time and he needed something to go back to sleep because he had this or that and it didn’t work. That’s exactly what used to happen to me: I would take a couple of pills and I would be up an hour later and I’d want more. Then I’d take more and that would be enough to maybe get me back to sleep for two more hours. Then I’d be wide awake again. So I definitely can relate, and it’s a shame if he didn’t have anybody there to just say, “Michael, you’re an addict, you need help.” It’s one of the pitfalls of fame. I could just say, “Yo, I need this and this and this,” and they’re going to give me whatever I want because—

—because you’re Eminem.

Eminem: Exactly, it’s fucked up. The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.

Read the full article here.

Video: Nicki Minaj Photoshoot for Right On! Magazine

Nicki a la Lady Gaga does a photoshoot for Right On! Magazine.