Understand Rap

Parse hop hop's poetry with a book of dry interpretations

While most gets what Tupac meant when he rhymed, “I ain’t guilty ’cause, even though I sell rocks/It feels good puttin’ money in your mailbox” on his hit 1999 track “Dear Mama” (a song now included in the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry if you needed anymore proof of rap’s mainstream legitimacy), some rap lyrics are just downright baffling to anyone not pursuing a …

Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art

From Barry McGee to Save Tibet, DJ DB's thousands of stickers in his new book

Founder of the record label Breakbeat Science and an early proponent of drum and bass, DB Burkeman (known to most as producer, promoter and DJ DB) wears many hats. Most recently, he took up the role of editor with his book “Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art.” Created with downtown girl-in-the-know Monica LoCascio, “Stickers” proudly displays Burkeman’s collection—a mass he’s …

Inge Grognard/Ronald Stoops

The iconic Antwerp style of one of fashion's most beloved photography duos

Almost as legendary as their subjects, creative husband-and-wife duo, Inge Grognard and Ronald Stoops are steeped in Antwerp’s fashion scene heyday of the early ’80s. With Stoops behind the lens and Gorgnard supplying the make up direction, the pair have created shoots, catwalk shows and spreads for some of the world’s biggest magazines, and indeed some of the icons of contemporary fashion. “Inge Grognard/Ronald Stoops“, …