Straight from the old-school streets of NYC at the dawn of the hip-hop scene comes Back in the Days The Coloring Book. Here is your chance to redraw the birth of old-school hip-hop fashion: hangin' in
At age nine, JamelShabazz was introduced to photography by his father, who kept a signed copy of Leonard Freed’s Black in White America on the family’s coffee table. Intrigued by
Back in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene?from 1980–1989—before it became what is today’s multimillion-dollar, multinational industry. Back in the Days, battles?involved rappers, DJs, danc
During the summer of 1980, under the direction of his father, a photographer, JamelShabazz armed himself with a Canon AE1 SLR camera and passionately photographed the urban landscape that he called
“Deeply unpretentious and undistracted by the trendy new aesthetics or technologies, Mr. Shabazz is the best kind of photojournalist: one driven simply by curiosity about other human beings.
Back in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980-1989—before it became what is today’s multi-million-dollar multinational industry. Back in the days, gangs would battle not with guns, b
