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It’s perhaps what Alan Muskat, professional forager, philosopher and educator, finds the most annoying about his work. He is the founder of No Taste Like Home, a foraging tour company in Asheville, ...
In 1982, he opened his haberdashery shop Dapper Dan’s Boutique on 125th Street, where his signature “knock-ups” (one-of-a-kind garments featuring remixed luxury logos like Louis Vuitton and ...
In 1983, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels changed the music industry. As one–third of the hip-hop act Run-DMC, the Queens native was a part of a wave that transformed how listeners consumed hip-hop music.
Cover look: Gold and pavé-diamond graduated-link necklaces, gold, diamond and tsavorite ring, and gold and diamond five-row ring, Tiffany & Co. White-gold and diamond earrings, Chopard. Vest, Levi’s.
For those who were in the Bronx on August 11, 2023, the 50th birthday celebration of hip-hop culminated with a star-studded concert at Yankee Stadium, where the surviving members of Run DMC ...
Earlier this month, Burgess bought a one-of-a-kind necklace from Adidas, designed in collaboration with Roblox creator Jonathan Courtney (or ‘WhoseTrade’), for $2 million Robux, or about $20,000. This ...
From chains to diamonds But the early hip-hop artists didn't start out with giant gold eagles, diamond-encrusted nameplates or Rolexes. Instead, said music journalist and exhibition guest curator ...
He examined a spotlighted Run-DMC rope chain with a gold Adidas-sneaker pendant the size of a Twinkie. “They made rope chains famous,” he said. “This was Jam Master Jay’s.” ...
From the gold pendant version of the Adidas Superstars worn by Run-DMC to Drake’s “Crown Jewel of Toronto,” a diamond-encrusted CN-Tower dotted with the city’s sports mascots, this is an ...
Hip-hop jewelry has gone by many names over the past 50 years. “Bling-bling” crystallized into “ice,” which melted into “drip” as rappers went from adorning their necks with gold ...
Run-D.M.C. DJ Jam Master Jay's family reflects on 22 years of loss and what the recent murder trial's guilty verdict means to them.
“It showed that we had the big gold chain and the fancy car and that we were truly the superstars of the neighborhood, you know,” D.M.C. recalled to NPR’s Terry Gross last year.