Scope and content
Papers include magazine and newspaper articles, photographs, posters, photocopies and ephemera documenting Hip Hop in the 1980s and 90s. Included are FOIL copies of the FBI's files on Tupac Shakur and Eazy-E, a recording contract for an album featuring Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys, a press release for NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" video, which was banned by MTV. Other documentation focuses on the rise of gangsta rap, the censorship of rap lyrics and the controversy over the Recording Industry Association of America's agreement to place "Parental Advisory" labels on selected releases.
Dates
- circa 1985-2000.
Creator
- Pollack, Phyllis. (Person)
Language of Material
In English.
Biographical / Historical
Phyllis Pollack is a music industry publicist who represented N.W.A. and other West Coast Hip Hop artists in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Extent
.6 cubic feet. (.6 cubic feet.)
- African American youth -- Social life and customs.
- African Americans -- Social conditions.
- Eazy-E, (Musician).
- Gangsta rap (Music).
- Hip-hop.
- Ice Cube, (Musician).
- Knight, Suge.
- N.W.A. (Musical group).
- Rap (Music) -- Political aspects.
- Rap (Music) -- Social aspects.
- Rap (Music).
- Rap musicians -- California.
- Rap musicians.
- Shakur, Tupac, 1971-1996.
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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