“That’s what motivates me. To have a stamp in history. knowing that my photos, in 20 years from now, are going to be looked at.”
-Mel D. Cole
Learn more about photographer Mel D. Cole on his website Village Slum
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i , fell the same way you do about your history,the only different we helped made the history of hip, hop, it was we the mom,and pop, stores that made the who’s?and the what?to be what they are, which is confortable i,m happy for them but i have a story to tell now. i’m a boomer, the magazine will make the numbers business a sucess over night.and i’m not a pony & dog show.i want to show my photos so just in case everyone forgot what happen., i ‘ll be able to tell the 21st century generation the history of who made hip, hop, pop the proof is in the pudding. how can you not help save the stores that’s left?