{"id":108778,"date":"2016-08-03T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=108778"},"modified":"2016-08-03T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:02:08","slug":"photos-from-uks-golden-age-of-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/photos-from-uks-golden-age-of-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos From UK\u2019s Golden Age Of Hip-Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"108779\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/photos-from-uks-golden-age-of-hip-hop\/attachment\/1182643\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1182643.jpg?fit=1600%2C1074&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1074\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1182643\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1182643.jpg?fit=540%2C362&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1182643.jpg?fit=640%2C429&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1182643.jpg?fit=640%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1182643\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1182643.jpg?resize=540%2C362&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1182643.jpg?resize=768%2C516&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1182643.jpg?resize=1024%2C687&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1182643.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1182643.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the early 80s, photographer <strong>Norman Anderson<\/strong> \u2013 better known as <strong>Normski<\/strong> \u2013 was at the height of the Hip-Hop scene, documenting the rise of the cultural movement that dominated both New York and London. <\/p>\n<p>Building his own empire from a young age, <strong>Normski<\/strong> dabbled in a variety of artistic platforms, finding success as the face of BBC&#8217;s Dance Energy and as a DJ. But, his most notable credit of all, being his treasured photographic archive of UK Hip-Hop culture of the 80s. \u201c&#8217;What was quite apparent was that I really related to a lot of the dance music and Hip-Hop that was going on as it was my people \u2013 it was my time,\u201d he reflects.<\/p>\n<p>See the photos and read the rest of this great article via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/photography\/article\/32286\/1\/normski-s-photographs-from-the-uk-s-golden-age-of-hip-hop-80-s\" target=\"_blank\">dazedigital<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the early 80s, photographer Norman Anderson \u2013 better known as Normski \u2013 was at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-siu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}