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Eminem's latest enjoys two covers. Hit the jump for the alternate.

Darkie's disappointing design took maybe five minutes. Here's seven easy steps to make your own version of Thank Me Later's shitty cover:

1. Insert pic to Photoshop
2. Select whatever was in the background (if anything) and clear it out and fill with white. place his face on a separate layer
3. Select images--> adjustments--> thresholds
4. Lazily fool around with thresholds for about 2 minutes
5. Add a colored (red) drop shadow through the blending options on the face layer
6. Go to filter --> Gaussian blur because God knows he needed to do that to make the image that much more awful
7. Finally add text, specifically Futura, maybe stretch it vertically a little bit

And you're done. You've just created Drake's retarded inverse Warhol album cover.

Darkie on the art for Drake's Thank Me Later. Better than the art for the Kanye song.

Austin's Phranchyze is one of the underground's most interesting rappers.

A towering, lanky battler, it's been an uphill climb for a dude known to humiliate posturing wannabes in battles so lopsided they inspired animated tributes. Unfortunately, the rap battle peaked in popularity posthumously in 2002 (it's a '90s thing) and the stigma is tough to shake: battle cats don't write hot songs.

On 2009's long-delayed, proper LP, Errybody Hates Me, Phran offered up playful bars and sneaker pimp jams to generally favorable critical reception. A year's worth of small scale tours and big opening slots on most of the relevant road shows (Clipse, Dead Prez, etc.), Phranchyze returns with his best solo effort to date.

The Black Larry Bird has his biggest hooks, best recorded stanzas and best production. The LP drops during SXSW (more on that Monday) and check out the tracklist after the jump and an exclusive mp3 below. I'm saying, fresh stuff.

About time. Thanks for not being Dr. Dre, 'Fest.

El Che features appearances From Saigon, Little Brother and production from Scram Jones, S1, BKS and Terry Hunter.

Absolutely pumped for March 30 and not because it's my 25th birthday.

In stores March 9. We're fans.

Tracklist after the jump.