isaac perry

dreamhampton1:

I was Editor in Chief of Rap Pages when I asked Baron Claiborne to shoot Big for the cover. Obviously, this crown shot became iconic. Our offices were in L.A. but I paid to have the posters for the issue papered around NYC. What we could have never known is the issue, with a cover story written by me after Big stood up the writer I assigned, and the posters,  would arrive the week he was being buried.

Photo by Jamel Shabazz. Brooklyn. 1997.