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Flavor Flav and Biz Markie at Studio 54, 1990

1990; printed 2003

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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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

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