Photograph of Marley Marl at home in New Jersey with his master tapes

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A color photograph of Marly Marl. He is wearing a blue jacket, has a goatee, and is wearing a watch on his proper left wrist. He is gesturing towards a stack of boxes full of master tapes. Many of the boxes say "L.L. Cool J" on them. There is a white border around the image. It is thinner on the two sides and thicker on the top and bottom. The back of the photograph has light grey text repeated upside down in diagonal lines. There are tears at the top and on the sides from where tape used to be and several ink smudges in different areas. There is an inscription by Bill Adler on the bottom, handwritten in blue ink.

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