The Way Of All Fresh: (from left) the Beastie Boys with (right)
Def Jam co-founders Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons; The Magnificent Force’s Fast Break spins on his head at Earth’s Edge; Grand Mixer
D.St in his bedroom studio.
“I WAS DEFINITELY at the right place at the right time,” says photographer, TV presenter/ producer and writer Sophie Bramly of the archive of NY rap images collected in new book Yo! The Early Days Of Hip Hop 1982-84. “But you don’t know these things when you’re there. I don’t think anyone on the hip-hop scene had the feeling that it was going to change the world. It was a day-to-day thing, in a small community.”