4/7/2024 0 Comments Im a bad boy song![]() ![]() I set up this opportunity by pitching the idea to Thrasher Magazine to let me do an article on the group Onyx. The venue was located one block south from another former music venue - Roseland Ballroom -both located in midtown Manhattan. In Fall 1993, I arranged to get photo credentials for a Public Enemy and Onyx concert at a former NYC venue - The Academy. I was able to package my work by submitting articles along with the photographs I shot to make it simple for the editors to publish. ![]() Their music section featured all kind of music: hardcore/punk, hiphop, rock. My main media outlet for publishing my photographs was Thrasher Magazine. At this point I had been involved in photographing New York’s music scene for less than a year, but the groups I knew were the bigger named entertainers. This was pre-internet, pre-smartphones -just magazines, CDs, and cassette tapes. ![]() This is the time period when Rapper turned Law & Order actor Ice T performed with his rock band Body Count and their controversial song, “ Copkiller” landed him on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1993, New York was still the strong era of Public Enemy and LL Cool J, even as newer artists like WuTang Clan were starting to emerge and A Tribe Called Quest released their second album, Midnight Marauders. ![]()
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