And if it's good enough for BJA, it's good enough for us.
Last week, North Long Beach rapper and actor Vince Staples unveiled his third record, FM!, and the artwork looked strangely familiar to a certain legendary 1994 album…
Paying tribute to Green Day's 20-million-selling breakthrough Dookie in a pretty badass way, FM! clearly takes a whole load of visual ideas from the pop-punks' third record while switching it up (most notably the colour change, of course). And Billie Joe Armstrong himself has seen the artwork, writing on Instagram: "I love this."
The artist behind Dookie, East Bay artist and musician Richie Bucher, is also apparently a fan of the homage, telling KQED Arts: "I think it's really cool! I just looked at it a little more closely, and I gotta say, I love stuff like this. It seems really clever and respectful. I have absolutely nothing bad to say about it – I think it's really cool."
Here's the original artwork:
And here's Vince Staples' take:
Aaaaaaand here's BJA's thoughts:
Cool.
Seems like as good an excuse as any, then, to blast this at full volume:
Dookie forever.
