Check out these candid portraits of hip hop’s most famous; they are life-size oil on canvas by Alexander Melamid, a Russian-born American artist best known for his satirical portrayal of Soviet Russia by infusing Socialist-Realist propaganda and traditional Russian iconography. My personal favorite: Snoop Dogg surfing the web in his comfy chair. Compelling.

Artist’s Website: Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid

…and I was chillin’ with T-Pain and we was sippin’ on Patron all night… Xzibit showed up and he hooked me up with a toaster in my Honda… Sisqo was there too and I bought his mixtape for a dollar, which I regretted almost immediately… And Tupac was trying to start shit ‘cause I was kind of mackin’ it with Left Eye, then Jackie Chan showed up and he was like “yo, we gotta bounce.”

Lucid dreaming is kind of possible on the Internet, thanks to Google image and simple java drawing programs.