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An Insider’s Look Before They Were Hip-Hop Stars

By Carolina Gonzalez

The sharp features and bedroom eyes are eminently familiar. But the sun-dappled portrait of Snoop Dogg Lisa Leone took in 1993 surprises. The rapper appears not just young — this was just before the release of his first solo album — but soft.

“What you see in those photos is time,” said Ms. Leone, speaking from Miami. “His eye contact is so beautiful and vulnerable.”

Against the hard image that many in hip-hop have cultivated over the last two decades, the portraits of musicians, b-boys, graffiti writers and round-the-way scenesters that Ms. Leone photographed in the 1980s and 1990s shows an unguarded, proud, sometimes goofy side more easily revealed to a fellow traveler[….]

The images in Ms. Leone’s book “Here I Am,” and the selection on exhibit at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through January document music video and magazine shoots, recording sessions and the downtime in between.

[Continue reading article in its entirety at The New York Times.]

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