Photograph of Craig Mack recording "Flava in Your Ear," Daddy's House, NYC: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

He is wearing a grey and blue Duke Blue Devils shirt and a necklace. He has large headphones on and there is a silver microphone near his face. He eyes are closed and his mouth is wide open, mid-song. There is a light shining behind him.

There is a white border around the image. It is thinner on the two sides and thicker on the bottom. There is a partial thin black border around the image. It is on the bottom and on the proper right side. There is a small, yellowing tear at the top from where a piece of tape used to be. The back of the photograph has light grey text repeated upside down in diagonal lines. There are tears at the top from where tape used to be and there is a piece of tape on either side near the top. There is an inscription by Bill Adler at the bottom, handwritten in blue ink.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1993
• Photograph by: Michael Benabib, American, born 1962
• Subject of: Craig Mack, American, born 1971
• Subject of: Daddy's House Recording Studio, American
• Subject of: Duke University, American, founded 1838
• Type: portraits
• Type: inkjet prints
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 17 × 11 in. (43.2 × 27.9 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 11 × 10 3/4 in. (27.9 × 27.3 cm)
• Place captured: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Musicians
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2015.132.77
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

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: © Michael Benabib Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.