Hip-Hop menace

In the mid-90’s, I got a sweet gig. The manager of the latin hip-hop group BOC (Barrio of Culture) approached me to take pictures of the band. They had scored a hit in the Carribean and needed photos for their next album, Pa Que Sepa. The sweet part was they would fly me down to the Dominican Republic where I would hang out with the band for a week while they finished up their album. I think we partied every night.

Being a hip-hop group, they asked that they look tough and menacing in the photos. This was no problem, but it became more and more comical as the week progressed as the band members were ultra sweet in reality. In one hilarious session, I had them stand on huge, stacked cement blocks. But one guy was afraid of heights, so his eyes were bugging out as he looked around from his perch. We all laughed at him, but when the time came to shoot, he composed himself, crossed his arms hip-hop-style and glared down at the camera threateningly.

I’ll post a few shots from that week in the DR. Here’s one of them: