Photograph of T.I. holding a Lil Flip poster: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A color photograph of the hip hop artist, T.I., dissing Lil'Flip. T.I. is holding a Lil’ Flip Game Over poster at Hot 107.9's Annual Birthday Bash in Atlanta, Georgia. He is pictured center, wearing a baseball cap with the letter [a] stitched on the front. He is also wearing a white button down shirt over a white tee-shirt, jeans and several long gold chains. He is holding a microphone in his proper right hand and a poster in his proper left with an image of Lil’ Flip on the front wearing a green suit, with the text [GAME / OVER??] printed above his head. There are two unidentified men in the background.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: June 19, 2004; printed later
• Photograph by: Julia Beverly, American, born 1981
• Subject of: T.I., American, born 1980
• Subject of: Lil' Flip, American, born 1981
• 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): 9 1/8 × 13 7/16 in. (23.1 × 34.1 cm)
• Place captured: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Musicians
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Radio
• Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2015.132.152
• 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: © Julia Beverly/Ozone Magazine Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.