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Taken from Contact High, by Vikki Tobak, published by Clarkson Potter
“Baby, baby/ Ooh, baby, baby …”
This takes you back, right? New York, late eighties, Salt, Pepa and, of course, DJ Spinderella; the sound (and look) of rap as a mainstream art form; feisty, foxy, feminist.
Janette Beckman’s photograph features in Contact High, Vikki Tobak’s handsome visual history of hip-hop. The book is a remarkable compilation of images that are both a document of black urban music at the end of the 20th century and the start of
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