Issues of Hip-Hop (Society)

2000 | Brooklyn, New York

PROJECT PARTNERS:

Bedford-Stuyvesant residents

Issues of Hip-Hop (Society) involved a diverse sampling of eight residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn to reflect upon hip-hop culture. The project beautified the participants’ neighborhoods with artwork that featured images of them. Through interviews, the eight models shared their insights about how to improve both hip-hop and society. The installation of the finished artworks was simultaneous with the opening of the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition, Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage, which signaled the first in a series of institutional art shows across the country focusing on hip-hop. Hip-hop’s historical roots in sound systems from Jamaica made the communities near the Brooklyn Museum especially fitting for the creation of this project.