YO! THE EARLY DAYS OF HIP-HOP 1982-84 by SOPHIE BRAMLY

Great book featuring 300+ pages of stunning photographs documenting the rise of hip hop in the early 1980s, taken by French photographer Sophie Bramly.

Featuring:
Fab Five Freddy
Futura
Afrika Bambaataa
Grand Mixer D.ST
Beastie Boys
Kool Herc
Run DMC
Cold Crush Brothers
Rocksteady Crew
Grandmaster Flash
and many more!

INTRODUCTION BY:
Bill Adler

WITH ADDITIONAL TEXT BY:
Fab Fab Freddy
Grand Mixer D. St
Rahiem of The Furious Five
Arthur Baker
Zephyr
Muhamad of The Magnificent Force
Lady Pink
Mister Freeze of The Rock Steady Crew
Patti Astor & Slick Rick

Sophie Bramly lived in New York in the early 1980s and became firmly embedded in the emergent scene. The book features many stunning, intimate images of a star-studded roll call of legendary hip hop figures, all of whom were only just getting known or in their ascendency. These include Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmixer DST, Jazzy Jay, Red Alert, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Kurtis Blow, Lisa Lee, the Fat Boys, Run-DMC, Beastie Boys and many more.

Bramly knew that hip hop was becoming a cultural force rather than just a musical fashion, and spent many hours photographing the four essential elements of this new world: the emcees, the deejays, the graffiti artists and the break dancers.

Aside from the musical stars of hip-hop you will also see legendary graffiti artists captured at work and play, such as Keith Haring, Dondi, Futura, Phase One, Zephyr and Lady Pink, and break dancers including members of Magnificent Force, Dynamic Breakers and the Rock Steady Crew.

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Sophie Bramly is a French photographer born in 1959. In 1982, she moved from France to New York at age 22 and for two years documented the burgeoning hip-hop scene, taking pictures of everyone from graffiti artists and breakdancers to rappers such as the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC. She returned to France in 1984, bringing a number of US hip-hop artists to Europe and then in 1987 moved to London to host and produce MTV’s first ever hip-hop show, Yo! MTV Raps.