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Bonz Malone - "The Slip Mahoney of Hip-Hop" The Palladium '93

1993; 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 color photograph of Bönz Malone. Malone is depicted sitting in a folding theater chair in three-quarters profile. He is looking at the viewer with his legs resting over the chair back in front of him and his elbows wrapped around his knees. He is wearing jeans, a jean jacket over a red shirt, and a rainbow baseball cap with a red propeller on the top. Beneath the image is a handwritten inscription, [BONZ MALONE - "THE SLIP MAHONEY OF HIP HOP / THE PALLADIUM '93]. Along with the photographer's signature [Ricky Powell].

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Catalog reference: 2015.132.334

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