Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Flavor Flav and Biz Markie at Studio 54, 1990
1990; printed 2003
New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black-and-white photograph of Flavor Flav and Biz Markie at Studio 54. Flavor Flav is on the left side of the image wearing a hat, sunglasses, bowtie, a necklace with a Public Enemy medallion, and a jacket embroidered with [Flavor Flav]. Biz Markie on the right side of the image,his arm around Flavor Flav's shoulders, holding the Public Enemy medallion up for the camera to see. Markie wears a necklace with oversized clock medallion and a fur hat. He is smiling wide. An unidentified man is visible behind Flav. Beneath the image is a handwritten inscription reading [FLAVOR FLAV + BIZ MARKIE! / STUDIO 54 1990] along with the photographer's signature [Ricky Powell / '03].
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Catalog reference: 2015.132.342
