Four metallic sculptures of diverse individuals displayed on black pedestals inside a grand hall with high arched ceilings and chandeliers. Spotify Pantheon for Rapcaviar Brooklyn Museum.

Rapcaviar ‘Pantheon’

Creative Collaborators

Ibra Ake, Cecilia Azcarate, Tal Midyan, Filipe Rocha, Keith Oshiro

Client

Spotify

Synopsis

A Spotify platform honoring the most influential artists on Spotify’s Rapcaviar playlist. With over 15M followers, RapCaviar is the most influential playlist in Hip Hop. To cement its reputation as the platform that breaks new artists, the playlist’s “year-end list” honored the three biggest breakthrough artists of the year in Greco-Roman fashion. Life-sized sculptures of each artist that were exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum. Each artist was 3D scanned then sculpted by state-of-the-art Robotic arms. Participating artists included Cardi B, Juice WRLD, Gunna, Jaden Smith.

  • A man with blond dreadlocks and casual clothing standing on a platform among numerous cameras mounted on a wall in a white, high-tech room.
  • • Spotify created RapCaviar Pantheon to honor breakthrough hip-hop artists and "cultural disruptors" with life-size, classical-style sculptures. • 2019 Class Inductees: Cardi B, Jaden Smith, Juice WRLD, and Gunna.
  • A woman wearing an elaborate white dress with lace, a large headpiece, and jewelry, standing against a plain white background.
  • City street scene with digital billboards, including a large one advertising Juice WRLD's art exhibit and a red one for RapCaviar. Pedestrians and vehicles are visible on the busy street.
  • Black and white sculpture of a man's face with glasses, angry expression, mouth open showing teeth, surrounded by various mechanical and metallic elements.