#nyc hip hop

[blackwomenrule]

[rustyjoints]

Hey, welcome... now Run For Your Life!!!!!!! 👋🌊⚡️

Positive ZAP⚡️

[twixnmix]

Nas, 2Pac, Drawz, Redman, Polo Ice and Biggie Smalls at the Amazon Village nightclub at Pier 25 in New York City on July 23, 1993.

Photos by Al Pereira

[tygerland]

Queen Latifah - New York City, October 6, 1989 - with backup dancers Allison Ashmawy (left) and Kika Martin, aka the "Safari Sisters." Photos by Al Pereira.

[pwh3]

Harlem, 125th Street, August 13th, 2023. Instagram: https://instagram.com/pwh3_ig

[amnhnyc]

💎 Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry is now open! This show is curated by guest curator Vikki Tobak, and guest co-curators Kevin “Coach K” Lee, and Karam Gill. The advisory includes Slick Rick, LENNY S., Mandy Aragones, Timothy Anne Burnside, Tanisha Ford, Alex Moss, Peter Nice, and Bevy Smith.

✨ Shout out to Mr. Flower Fantastic and DJ Clark Kent for helping us kick off the opening of Ice Cold.

[soupy-sez]

Wu-Tang Clan in NYC, 1994, © Al Pereira

[swizziee]

Rocawear is for the children… (2000).

[realnyhiphop101]

Finesse and Synquis "Soul Sisters" Era

[vintage-tigre]

Beastie Boys, 1985

[hibiscus-hunny]

[actualfucking]

Mobb Deep "Shook Ones Pt. II" (1995)

[rustyjoints]

A visual of my Robo Soul

Positive ZAP ⚡️

[twixnmix]

Beastie Boys and Run-DMC photographed by Glen E. Friedman in New York City, 1987.

[theunderestimator-2]

Few bands can claim a place in five different musical histories - hip hop, new wave, house music, funk & punk. ESG, here captured at Tier 3, NYC in 1980, definitely hold such a unique place.

“When Mrs Scroggins bought her teenage daughters – Renee, Valerie, Deborah and Marie – musical instruments in the mid-’70s, all she was doing was trying to keep them off the streets of the South Bronx. She had no idea she’d just created one of the most exciting and influential bands to come out of the music scene of ’80s New York. ESG -short for Emerald, Sapphire and Gold- distilled the black and Hispanic sounds of the city into a tight, stripped-down new genre that some people called ‘punk-funk’.”

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The sisters, after the addition of their friend Tito on percussion, the band started taking part in talent shows in 1978, supported The Clash & Grandmaster Flash, played at NYC’s hottest venues, like Danceteria or Paradise Garage and ended up in Manchester, where they played the opening night of the fabled Hacienda after signing with Tony Wilson’s Factory Records, who caught them performing at Hurrah in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1981.

Their debut EP under the same name was recorded 3 days after they flew over from NY, produced by the legendary Mancunian producer Martin Hannett (whose portfolio included Joy Division, the Durutti Column, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, New Order, OMD & Happy Mondays). Hannett had three minutes left on the master tape, so he had the band record "UFO”, which eventually became one of the most sampled songs in hip-hop history, since it has been sampled over 500 times by just about every hip hop producer going.

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[soupy-sez]

Beastie Boys, NYC 1986, © Sunny Bak