Reid.”Īt one point, Hawkins shared an apartment with a hometown friend named Robert Hodo, who moved to Atlanta in 1979 and married Sharon Benjamin. I did T-shirt designs for Babyface and L.A. “You wouldn’t believe the groups and artists that I came in contact with,” Hawkins said. After a brief stint at Columbus College of Art & Design, Hawkins was hired as an artist through his friend Maurice Alfred, who connected Hawkins with Pablo & Associates founder William “Pablo” Davis, a Columbus music promoter, producer and manager of bands such as Midnight Star and The Deele, the latter which featured Antonio “L.A.” Reid and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds. So how did Hawkins even get to André 3000 and Big Boi? It was a simple case of knowing the right people - and having the talent.
So, when I did the album cover, I tried to give it a ’70s feel with them guys in the bellbottoms and the pimp gear.” They even had George Clinton on it … and I’m a big Parliament-Funkadelic fan. “They were trying to have a ’70s vibe on it. “André came over and played some tunes for me, and I kind of got the feel of it,” Hawkins explained to Columbus Alive in a recent interview. With the help of André 3000, he was able to do just that. 1).” To get the right aesthetic, Hawkins had to transport himself into another era.
Released in 1998, the project produced the singles “Rosa Parks,” “Skew It on the Bar-B” featuring Raekwon, “Synthesizer” with George Clinton and “Da Art of Storytellin’ (Pt. Columbus, Ohio native Gregory Hawkins is the artistic genius behind the cover of Outkast’s third studio album Aquemini.
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