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As a member of the group UTFO, he was heard on one of the most influential and widely imitated songs of commercial hip-hop’s early years.

4June 2021 When Notorious B.I.G. dropped “Juicy” in 1995, he took a generation back to their roots with the iconic bars: “ It was all a dream / I used to read Word Up! magazine / Salt ‘N’ Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine”. Long before hip hop went pop, it was an underground scene shaped by local artists like Chicago photographer Raymond Boyd.  Growing up, Boyd used to page through Black-owned magazines like Ebony and Jet, marveling at pictures of the Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, and Diana Ross – whose songs were sampled by hip hop artists he would later photograph. Reading t...

Popular was doing names on the side of your jeans, and that's what i was doing a lot of. people paid me to put their names on the side of their jeans. ♪ >> you know, i remember coming across a black beat magazine with ll cool j on the cover, and inside there was an article about his sweatshirt that he was wearing, which was like an airbrushed portrait of himself, as a b-boy. and it was painted by a guy named king fade from the shirt kings. >> this is the shirt here that gave the shirt kings notoriety. when ll cool j who is a major, major, major star, wore this

People paid me to put their names on the side of their jeans. ♪ >> you know, i remember coming across a black beat magazine with ll cool j on the cover, and inside there was an article about his sweatshirt that he was wearing, which was like an airbrushed portrait of himself, as a b-boy. and it was painted by a guy named king fade from the shirt kings. >> this is the shirt here that gave the shirt kings notoriety. when ll cool j who is a major, major, major star, wore this shirt in every photo shoot that you could imagine, it took what

Names on the side of their jeans. ♪ standing by the street suddenly you had this -- ♪ ♪ i can't stand around and the closer i get the better it sounds ♪ ♪ when i heard the beat -- >> i remember coming across a black beat magazine with ll cool j on the cover. inside there was an article about his sweatshirt he was wearing, which was an air brushed portrait of himself, as a b-boy. it was painted bay guy named king fade from the shirt kings. >> this is the shirt here that gave the shirt kings notoriety. when ll cool j who is a major, major star, wore this shirt in every photo shoot you ...