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When it comes to musical knowledge and skills, B.o.B and Ty Dolla $ign belong to a very exclusive club in hip-hop. Although the hit makers would prefer to not to be boxed in to any one genre, good music is a category they are more than willing to accept.

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THE LENS CRAFTER

Phil Knott Cuts Through The Smoke with Killa’ Cam

Celebrated RESPECT. photographer, Phil Knott, has been in the game for almost two decades. The Brit has captured pioneering images of the culture in a style that is distinctively his own. Color, light, depth, fucking around with digital experimentation of the image … and a one-on-one nature that is truly one-of-a-kind. His mark documenting Hip-Hop is undeniable.

Looking within the RESPECT. archive we dug up this gem from our premiere issue. Take note to this photo that won’t get you contact high, but is “on a higher level.”

Cam’Ron Photo Copyright Phil Knott

 

“He just smokes. You have no choice––it’s either that or you go home. This was a no–choicer, really.”

 

– Phil Knott

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RESPECT. sends its condolences to the entire MIGOS family and relatives of Takeoff regarding the tragedy of his murder at 2:30 am in Houston, while a group gathered outside a bowling alley rolling dice. Please take a moment of silence as you view this photo of him from the RESPECT. 2017 Annual captured by photographer Trevor Sage-El.

R.I.P. TAKEOFF

Photographer Trevor Sage-EL. Both TAKEOFF image are Copyright Musinart LLC

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“The chicks like Usher, but you don’t see him flaunting chicks. I guess he was married for a long time. I just thought it would be cool to put him in this context that I’ve never seen him in: Women like this dude; let’s put him in between a girl’s legs. I don’t know if Jonnetta, his mom, would be happy, but it made sense to me. The girl was a random model who shot for editorial for GQ, but they never used that shot. I was looking at the print and I was like, ‘This looks like where Usher should be.’”

Usher photo by K. Capello featured in RESPECT #2 published 2010.

About Kenneth Cappello

While working as a “drunk barback,” he “began building sets as a hired carpenter for this guy named David LaChapelle,” he shares. “I had no idea how huge he was when I got hired. I got onto his set and was like, Oh, shit, this is where photos come from—this is a photo studio, this is a stylist, this is where photos are made. That really cracked my head open to take what I had always done just as ‘this thing’ to another level.”

RESPECT.

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Pusha T as seen in RESPECT. magazine. Photo copyright Karl Ferguson Jr..

PUSHA T

New York City, 2013

“Pusha’s album My Name Is My Name had recently been released and he came up to Hot 97 to promote it on DJ Funkmaster Flex’s show. I was there to capture his portrait before he had to leave for his Gramercy Theater show. You can always count on Pusha to be cooperative, he’s so used to the process.”

 

– Karl Ferguson Jr.

From the RESPECT. Archive: Karl Ferguson Jr. photo feature. Issue #18 Nov 2013.

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