{"id":557,"date":"2023-09-29T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/entertainment\/25-years-on-a-look-back-at-one-of-the-most-iconic-photographs-in-hip-hop-history\/"},"modified":"2023-09-29T02:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T02:10:00","slug":"25-years-on-a-look-back-at-one-of-the-most-iconic-photographs-in-hip-hop-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/entertainment\/25-years-on-a-look-back-at-one-of-the-most-iconic-photographs-in-hip-hop-history\/","title":{"rendered":"25 years on, a look back at one of the most iconic photographs in hip-hop history"},"content":{"rendered":"


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New York City<\/em> \u2014 Friday will mark the 25th anniversary of one of the most iconic moments in music history \u2014 when 177 of the greatest artists in hip-hop gathered together on a city block in Harlem for a cover photograph for XXL Magazine. <\/p>\n

The photograph, taken on Sept. 29, 1998, included musicians Rakim, Common, Mos Def, Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes and Questlove, among countless others.<\/p>\n

“I knew it,” Fat Joe, one of rap’s first Latino superstars, told CBS News on whether he was aware at the time the image would become historic. “On that day, seeing so many of my peers, so many people that I looked up to\u2026we knew that was history.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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177 of the greatest artists in hip-hop gathered together on a city block in New York City’s Harlem on Sept. 29, 1998, for a photograph that appeared on the cover of\u00a0 XXL Magazine. The iconic picture was taken by photographer Gordon Parks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Gordon Parks Foundation<\/p>\n

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At the time, the photo was a recreation of another iconic photograph taken in the same spot by photographer Art Kane in 1958 that featured 57 of the world’s greatest jazz musicians. That photo was used in Esquire Magazine to mark the end of the golden age of jazz.<\/p>\n