Sotheby's first ever hip hop auction

The first-ever dedicated Hip Hop auction to be presented at a major international auction house took place a couple of days ago in New York. Sotheby’s sale reflects on the impact Hip Hop has had on art and culture from the late 1970s through the “Golden Age” of the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, and up to the present.

Browsing through the auction catalogue online was, to an extent, a trip down memory lane…the artists…the fashion labels! Hip Hop isn’t only a pop and commercial success it was and is political, poetic and powerful. Hip hop reminds me of my childhood, teenage years watching MTV on a sometimes grainy satellite tv connection and university years flirting in nightclubs and staggering home to listen to the same music at an afterparty.

In the gallery above the jackets are Salt-N-Pepa’s Push It jackets, Fab Five Freddy’s gold and diamond MTV ring, LL Cool J silk screen, Run DMC on Lower Broadway.

Given the success of the auction I hope Sotheby’s will host another as many of the artists were donating proceeds to good causes, hip hop hooray.