THE STORY BEHIND N.W.A.’S FIRST RECORD COVER

The Story Behind N.W.A.'s First Record Cover from Oliver Wang on Vimeo. I originally researched most of this story in 2012 for Artbound but I just revisited it for the Leimert Park Book Fair and decided to record the update as a narrated slideshow. It tells a serendipitous set of stories behind where N.W.A. shot the cover photo for their first release and how it plugs into a longer history of music in Los Angeles. UPDATE: I should have caught this before, but in the LA Weekly piece from 2...

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