Rare, never-before-seen polaroids from hip-hop’s golden age
A new exhibition, Beyond the Streets, reveals the tight-knit community that underpinned the genre’s formative years in 1980s New York

Nowadays, hip-hop is one of the single biggest genres on earth. In the 50 years since its founding in New York’s Bronx neighborhood in the summer of 1973, the genre has spawned countless scenes across the world, while its pioneering electronic production techniques have since reshaped the landscape of pop. But a new exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery, titled Beyond the Streets and launching tomorrow (November 11), reveals a time when it washellip;
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