Has Hip-Hop Come "of Age"?

Joe Conzo gets misty eyed when he recalls his teenage years in the South Bronx. In those days, taking pictures was his hobby - one which led to him photographing black and Latino youths dancing to a new type of music, with its own distinctive forms of dance and art. The scene would later be…

Joe Conzo gets misty eyed when he recalls his teenage years in the South Bronx. In those days, taking pictures was his hobby - one which led to him photographing black and Latino youths dancing to a new type of music, with its own distinctive forms of dance and art. The scene would later be christened hip-hop. More than 30 years on, this New York fire service paramedic is a celebrated photographer best known for his book, Born in the Bronx. Mr Conzo, who the New York Times dubbed "the man who took hip-hop's baby pictures," recalls MCs, DJs, graffiti artists and breakdancers forming a "collective body of different elements that created the culture" of youth in the Bronx in the late 70s โ€ฆ

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