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Speaking of the @JuxtapozMag article on Beastie Boys artwork, this is the old Mac G3 266Mhz model I used to do the Beastie Boys’ ‘Hello Nasty’ artwork on. It was more powerful than my computer at work, so I worked on my own machine, also doing the art for DMX’s ‘It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot’ album at the same time. Here it’s literally being used as a door stop. I can’t part with it! #SentimentalHoarder #BeastieBoys

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Was one of Brooklyn’s finest in Harlem in 1939? This Sid Grossman photo of “Harlem Loiterers” from the Prints Collection at NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture has created quite a stir since being posted to the Center’s Facebook page the other day. Why? Because the man on the right looks a heck of a lot like Jay-Z (for evidence, check out these photos of Jay-Z when he visited The New York Public Library in 2011). Cue Twilight Zone music, right? Schomburg’s Curator of Digital Collections Sylviane A. Diouf found the photo while researching an exhibition, and said, “I was immediately struck by the similarity to Jay-Z and actually laughed out loud … I still hope somebody will tell us who that you man really was.”

So is Jay-Z a time traveler? Is this someone else - anyone know who? What do you think?

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