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Ithaka Darin Pappas - EAZY E " SKATE OUTTA COMPTON" photographer (Contact High Exhibit/Book) Venice

Californian artist/photographer/songwriter talks about his historic photograph "Skate Outta Compton" an image of NWA's Eazy E riding a skateboard in Venice Beach wearing Air Jordans and a bullet proof vest. The picture was featured in Vikki Tobak's award-winning book/exhibit Contact High: A Visual History Of Hip Hop

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Fab 5 Freddy (VLADTV) Talks Eazy E Skateboarding in Venice in ‘89 - and the Ithaka Darin Pappas photos in Contact High ExhibitRare Photo of Eazy E Skateboarding by Ithaka Darin Pappas now on Exhibit at "Contact High" hosted by The Annenberg Space For Photography
“Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop,” at the Annenberg Space for Photography. A new group show organized by author Vikki Tobak looks at the work of photographers who chronicled the rise of hip-hop, with famous prints (like the iconic portrait of Biggie Smalls in a crown by Barron Claiborne) as well as unedited contact sheets and other images of key musical figures from the genre, including Eazy-E, Jay-Z and Salt-N-Pepa. Tobak is the author of the bestselling book on which the exhibit is based.
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HIP-HOP & SKATEBOARDING CONNECTION
By Shawna Kenney

Skateboarding and Hip-Hop were destined to intersect. Both were born of the streets, masters in rhythm and maestros of flow. While the sport first appeared as an offshoot of surfing in the '40s and '50s, it took hold of American youth culture in 7'0s-era California. Meanwhile, an underground movement called Hip-Hop was brewing in New York — with rapping, beatboxing, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti — being shared at block parties, and later in clubs.

Of course, not everyone in the skating world appreciates Hip-Hop and some in Hip-Hop might be oblivious to the skateboarding scene, but in the great Venn diagram of life, these sets overlap. Meet the special union of those who kick-flipped the script.

50:50 Grinders: Skater-Musicians & Musical-Sk8rs

EAZY-E

Eazy-E was captured riding a skateboard on the Venice Beach Pavillion in 1989 by photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas, who was a freelancer hired by Priority Records. He was assigned to shoot N.W.A. on a Yo! MTV Raps interview with Fab Five Freddy. “I would go to their video shoots with them and worked with them about once a month from ’88-’90,” says Pappas. “The first time I worked with them was a photo shoot at my apartment, which ended up being the press photograph for Straight Outta Compton.” The Venice shoot took place on February 24 in ’89, recalls Pappas. “They started the morning in Compton and I was told to meet them at the beach and to get some portraits. Kriss Kross was there, the D.O.C. was there, they were hanging out doing a promo thing. Then we go down to the Pavillion where people would rollerskate and skateboard. While Freddy was interviewing Dre, Eazy just wanders off about a hundred yards north to a bunch of skaters, grabs somebody’s skateboard, skates for 5-10 minutes, then comes back. Then he grabs someone else’s board and skates away again. It was obviously something he had practiced somewhere. For who he was and what he was representing it was such a courageous thing to do in a public place. Maybe not everybody was happy about that—it might have been ‘too crossover’ or ‘sellout’ but I think he was just being himself.”

Pappas says it was extra surprising because a few weeks earlier while in a van with the guys on the way to another shoot, he had suggested if they ever wanted to go surfing sometime, he could hook them up with friends’ boards and uncrowded surf spots, “and they just chuckled, like, ‘cracka please.’”

Pappas was careful with his film, trying to stay on target, but grabbed a few candid photos of the moment. “It was accidental grassroots promotion. Maybe people who liked Hip-Hop but never thought of skating paid attention or maybe people skating who never liked Hip Hop thought about it. Some people in my inner circle didn’t think rap was even going to be around that long. But the kids around that day were well aware of who he was and they were stoked.”

Those photos appeared in an article in Thrasher Magazine later that year and Priority made some shirts with the group image. Years later Pappas’ photos resurfaced when N.W.A. was inducted in the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame and again in Vikki Tobak’s book and exhibit, Contact High: A Visual History Of Hip- Hop.

Such rare images cement Eazy-E’s place in history as Hip-Hop's first skateboarder.
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