About This Item

  • Call NumberJENN_0202
  • SummaryLeft to right: Yasiin Bey seated at a piano in the PAL (Police Athletic League) Quincy Day Care Center, backstage to the Dave Chappelle Block Party held in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, on September 18, 2004. In the backround is a graduation celebration poster reading: Congratulations on maturing into butterflies.
  • Date2004-09-18
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPEG, color
  • CreatorJennings, Terrence
  • CollectionTerrence Jennings photograph collection
  • Cite AsTerrence Jennings photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Formatstill image
  • Genrecolor photographs
  • NoteTitle devised by creator.
  • SubjectMos Def (Rapper) ; African American musicians
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Clinton Hill (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • Copyright OwnerJennings, Terrence
  • TitleRecording artist Mos Def, currently known as Yasiin Bey, backstage at the Dave Chappelle Block Party held in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY.
  • Biographical NoteThese photographs were taken at Dave Chappelle's Block Party, a concert held at Quincy Street and Downing Street in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn on September 18, 2004. The complete collection includes scans of the original film negatives as well as contact sheets (approximately 684 images.)