"Aaliyah, Ace Hood, the Afros, Ali D, Arrested Development: In Bill
Adler's extensive collection of hip-hop history, some of the genre's
biggest names are arranged next to lesser mainstream artists.
Adler
was the founding publicity director of Def Jam Records. One of his
first assignments was getting pop music critics at daily newspapers to
cover one of the label's new artists, LL Cool J. He worked at Def Jam
for six years, before going independent and later running a gallery
devoted to hip-hop photography. From these ventures, he accrued a
massive archive, which lived in a storage space in the basement of his
building until he sold the collection to Cornell University last year.
Soon it will also live online
Adler sent Cornell University 500
vinyl recordings, an impressive collection of books in several
languages and roughly 100,000 newspaper and magazine articles about rap
and hip-hop. One of the books — in Polish — is a 600-page encyclopedia
of rap. Another is a collection by French photographer Sophie Bramly."
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