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“I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public want – you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing – even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.”

–Thelonious Monk

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9 years in😉

The cast of hip-hop film Wild Style at Riverside Park in New York City, 1982.

Photos by Martha Cooper

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Indeed. Kemet was 3,000 years old when the Greeks arrived.

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Graffiti artists Toxic, A-One and Kool Koor photographed by Mark Baron, 1982.

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1980s New York City Street Style by Jamel Shabazz

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1980s New York City Street Style by Jamel Shabazz

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1980s New York City Street Style by Jamel Shabazz