But the shift has fossilized a certain kind of rap album, like The Notorious B.I.G.’s debut Ready to Die, released in 1994. This is undoubtedly a good thing-entrepreneurial city teens today hustle fashion trends to ogling editors instead of baggies to scraggly addicts. Sure, there are bike messengers that peddle weed packed in plastic jars and Russian mobsters who launder money through Coney Island auto-shops, but the kind of trap-house, dope-boy, Robin Hood archetype that still carries in cities like Atlanta has been wiped clean from tri-state folklore. A Harlem subway sign, graffitied by artists between 1980-85, sold for $27,720, three times its estimate.New York City doesn’t sell drugs anymore. The boombox installation Wall of Boom, by DJ Ross One, sold for $113,400. A 2013 artwork by Fab 5 Freddy, one of hip-hop’s originators, sold for $22,680. Visual artworks by Janette Beckman, Shirt King Phade, rapper Schoolly D and more were also sold alongside flyers, posters and photography.
Three artworks from De La Soul’s Daisy Age era trounced their estimates, with a study for the album cover Three Feet High and Rising selling for $21,420 (its peak estimate was $3,500).
Numerous items of clothing were sold, including colourful jackets worn by Salt-N-Pepa at the time of their hit Push It, a suit worn by Dr Dre and prototype Air Jordan trainers designed for Drake.Ī commemorative postage stamp featuring Wu-Tang Clan, and signed by the group’s rapper-producer RZA, sold for $8,190. “What I am feeling has to do with my insecurities, and I have to handle that on my own.” An autographed letter from the rapper also sold for $17,640. “I just want to be less sensitive and less of a pest,” he writes in one. They show an emotional maturity he would soon bring to bear on his music. A cache of 22 love letters sent by Tupac Shakur to his high-school sweetheart Kathy Loy sold for $75,600.
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