Verbal Acrobatics: Can I Kick It?

I've been working on my A Tribe Called Quest poster today, I've been focusing more on my D&AD project than the ISTD one which may lead to some time constraints for this project, but I'm confident if I set time aside I can achieve my goal with this in terms of quantity of posters and record sleeves. This is number 1 of what was a planned 6!

This is my original layout I was going to draw and go a bit crazy over:

I took a step back and realised I just didnt't like this for some reason, it was too rigid and I didn't feel comfortable with it. So I drew this up really quickly while listening to the song to hopefully just get the lyrics and vibe down as I felt it, to get a sketchy wireframe to work over:

You can sort of see how the general composition relates to the finished piece

Above is what I ended up with which I'm far more happy with and it's a lot more playful and more movement about it which helps to capture the vibe of the song. I was careful to use the colour palette widely used throughout ATCQ visual material, predomoninatly red and green, with touches of yellow and sometimes blue, as seen on these:

The posters will be printed on satin and folded up so here's how an idea of how it will hopefully look for the finished product.

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Some process screenshots to see how I worked over typed and manipulated text by hand to get a good outline to work over and so on