West Coast Hip Hop Legends

During the late 80's to early 90's I extensively documented the west coast hip hop scene. My loft/studio on Pico Blvd near Fairfax was next door to Crains Records, an indy shop that specialized in Soul, R&B and Hip Hop. All the artists came through Crains on their PR tours and I would often shoot portraits of them in my studio. I also produced a short run 'zine about the LA music scene called the LA Informer, and had the amazing experience of making exclusive photographs of NWA (Dr Dre, D.O.C., Eazy-E, Ice-Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella) in their studio in Compton very early in their career. Tragically, my entire archive of photographs and negatives from this era was destroyed by USPS in a horrifi...View all