Back in the Days

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Back within the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980-1989—before it turned into what is nowadays’s multi-million-dollar multinational industry. Back within the days, gangs would battle not with guns, but by breakdancing. Back within the days, the streets—not corporate planning—set the standards for style. Back within the days, Jamel Shabazz was once at the scene, photographing on a regular basis people hangin’ in Harlem, kickin’ it in Queens, and cold chillin’ in Brooklyn.

Street styling with an attitude not seen in fashion for some other twenty future years, Shabazz’s subjects strike poses that put supermodels to shame—showing off Kangol caps and Gazelle glasses, shell-top Adidas and suede Pumas with fat laces, shearling coats and leather jackets, gold rope chains, door-knocker earrings, name belts, boom boxes, and other designer finery. For someone who wants to grasp what “keepin’ it real” means, Back within the Days is the book of your dreams.

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