The Crew

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.

This is a color archival pigment print from the negative. The photograph depicts a group of eleven members of the TML Breakers, ranging in age. They are posed in various hip hop stances around a boom box, with seven standing behind it on a platform. They are all dressed in hip hop fashion, wearing sweaters, vests, and leather jackets with low-top sneakers with fat laces. For accessories, they have hats, jewelry, and Cazal-like glasses. There are three TML Breakers custom garments being showcased by the members: a red crewneck on the left with white printed [T.M.L. / (silhouette of a pose) / BREAKERS], a denim jacket painted with [LiL / STEVE] held at the center by a young child wearing a large [FRESH] necklace, and a second denim jacket painted with [TML] on the right. The background is a graffitied wall. There no inscriptions on the print, front or back.

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