Product Description: Known as the "King of the Flyer," Buddy Esquire was the premier show flyer artist in the Bronx during the earliest days of hip hop. Combining influences ranging from Bronx Art Deco architecture to superhero comics and Japanese anime, and teaching himself the fundamentals of lettering and graphic design, Esquire created a new artistic style, which has been often borrowed but rarely credited today...read more

More than two hundred illustrations complement an intriguing look at the early days of hip hop music and its origins in the 1970s Bronx, offering rare personal photographs, memorabilia, and ephemera that capture a seminal and experimental period in music history from the perspective of influential early hip hop performers and musicians. 15,000 first printing.