The Smithian

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art: photo of LL Cool J in NYC by David Alan Harvey. 2005.

in the studio with J. Cole.

Clash

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bigseangood She’s a trip @nayarivera

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They…met in the first grade and were discovered in the early 1990s at the Greenbriar Mall in Atlanta by Jermaine Dupri, who molded them into the first commercially successful teen-oriented hip hop act. Mr. Kelly died on Wednesday after being found unresponsive in his home in Atlanta. He was 34…Mr. Kelly’s mother, Donna Kelly Pratte, said he had been using cocaine and heroin before his death.

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art: Kelly, on the right.

assrel:

Hell Yeah I want this

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The Fader.

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…these copy shop masterpieces from the late ’70s and early ’80s are historical documents of a global culture’s roots.

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