"Beyond South Central" Rap legends N.W.A as seen thru the lens of Ithaka Darin Pappas

 

Beyond South Central, by Ithaka Darin Pappas, is a collection of rarely seen black and white sometimes candid photographs of iconic gangsta rap superstars N.W.A. Between the years of 1988 and 1990, Ithaka Darin Pappas was a regular freelance photographer for Priority Records. During this time he worked with N.W.A. approximately eighteen to twenty times. Although Ithaka was responible for some of the record imagery (Straight Outta Compton maxi-single cover and the We Want Wazy maxi-single cover), the images he was most often involved with were capturing candid portraits during key moments of their career and on the sets of music video shoots and interviews. His pictures of N.W.A. have appeared in the books Contact High (Random House), Ice Cold (Taschen), and Hip Hop Raised Me (Thames & Hudson), etc. His works represent the most extensive collection of N.W.A. pictures created by a single photographer.