Chromogenic print of The Beatnuts: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

From left to right are Psycho Les, Fashion, Rick Man, and Juju Gigante. Les wears a light grey hoodie, with the hood pulled up over a black baseball cap with a gold crown logo on the front. He is gesturing with his proper left hand in front of the camera; his fingers are out of focus. Next to Les, Fashion wears a grey sweatshirt and black White Sox baseball cap. He has a heart-shaped ring on his pink and holds his hands together in front of him. Rick Man wears a dark colored hooded sweatshirt. Juju Gigante wears a white guayabera style shirt and black sunglasses. The background behind them is blue and black and a purple effect appears across the photograph, especially across the foreheads of Rick Man and Gigante, and across the shoulders of the man next to Les. On the verso, a handwritten inscription by Bill Adler identifies the subject and the photographer.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1994 - 2004
• Photograph by: Rachelle Clinton, American
• Subject of: The Beatnuts, American, founded 1989
• Subject of: Rick Man, American
• Subject of: Juju Gigante, Dominican American, born 1972
• Subject of: Psycho Les, Colombian American, born 1972
• Subject of: Al'Tariq, American
• Type: chromogenic color prints
• Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 11 × 14 1/16 in. (27.9 × 35.7 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 8 3/4 × 13 3/16 in. (22.2 × 33.5 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Gesture
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Latin hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Musicians
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2015.132.185
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Rachelle Clinton Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.