hip-hop days edition 1
Contents page Page 4 to 13: Twizzy & Jinxsta - Bournemouth Boogaloo event Page 14 to 27: Twizzy Jinxsta Home life - Bristol Page 28 - 41: Stig Everyday life - London Page 42 - 55: Behind the Scenes of Stig and Jehst's new music video 'Kubrick'
Welcome page This is a one off edition of Hip-Hop days. The aim of this project is: To try remove the negative stigma built around the Hip-Hop genre, caused by American media. It gives a personal insight to the artists lives, so people can understand that; the tone of their music, and what happens on stage isn’t always a representation of what happens at home. The artists I have worked with let me into their personal lives to show the different sides of Hip-Hop and I am very grateful for this. Special thank you to: Twizzy, Jinxsta and Stig for taking time out of your days to make this project happen.
twizzy and jinxsta photography by Emily nolan
bournemouth boogaloo hip-hop event
jinxsta talking with d-j billy whizz
the inside story of Twizzy and jinxsta On the 21st of February 2015, I made my way
We finished the day at Twizzy's house where I
down to Bournemouth to attend the event:
met his two children, Evie, (8), Maia, (4) and his
"Boogaloo Presents: Mystro//Split Prophets//
soon to be Wife, Jo. Before I got the bus back
Twizzy". The event was held at Club, Eden and
to London I spent time with relaxing with them,
Twizzy & Jinxsta were third up on stage. The per-
talking to Jo about the wedding and being enter-
formance felt really personal and after they fin-
tained by Evie and Maia. While talking to Twizzy
ished, people from the crowd got on the stage
as Jinxsta was spinning Maia in the air, he men-
to shake Twizzy & Jinxsta's hands to introduce
tioned that Jinxsta is the Godfather to both his
themselves and congratulate them.
children which showed me their friendship and trust, it was really nice to see this other side of
Even though they had trouble with the micro-
them which you would never see on stage.
phone half way through, Twizzy and Jinxsta kept it together, they didn't let it affect their perfor-
In the next few pages I am trying to show the
mance.
other side of Hip-Hop by featuring hometowns, important locations and families as it was so nice
The next time I met up with Twizzy and Jinxsta,
to see this side of the artists, and I really enjoyed
was in Bristol, their hometown. We spent the day
shooting this part of the project. Also I will defi-
visiting places that have meaning to them includ-
nitely be returning to Bristol, as I got to see it
ing; Cabot Tower - the location of Twizzy's first
from an ‘insiders’ view and it’s made me fall in
music video back in 2006, "Bargain Lane" where
love with the place!
Jinxsta used to sit and spit his first ever bars after school. This is a personal insight to their lives.
at home with Twizzy
cheers!
bristol, the heart of uk hiphop
STIG of the dump
photography by emily nolan
a day in the life
On the 24th April 2015 I met up with Stig of the Dump in East London to shoot a day in his life; originally I wanted to shoot places that are important to Stig, but because he is from Newcastle, the inspirational/ important places are all up there so we decided to shoot a day in the life. To begin, we went for lunch in his favourite Turkish food restaurant on the high street he lives on.
The photographs of the interiors are Stig's home; I wanted to show a personal insight to his life with these photographs. Stig also introduced me to his manager Mike Lewis (featured in the image to the left) at their office in Angel. Mike used to photograph Hip-Hop artists in the early 90's and has some photographs featured in BRICK magazine - one of my inspirations for this book. It was great to meet Stig's manager as I got an insight as to what goes on before an album release and the office was full of Hip-Hop and Star Wars items (two of my favourite things).
Stig is releasing a new album called Kubrick and invited me to shoot the behind the scenes photography of the single 'Kubrick'. The video is all different scenes from Stanley Kubrick films recreated with Stig and Jehst. Being on set was such a contrast to Stig's everyday life and I hope this shows through my images. It was such a good video to work on and I'm very grateful to be a part of this project.
Behind the scenes of 'kubrick' music video with Stig of the dump & jehst
2001 a space Odyssey
behind the scenes
the shining - bathroom door scene
drill sergeant from full metal jacket
scene from dr strangelove
a clockwork Orange
the shining - snow scene
full metal jacket - opening scene
all photos by emily nolan copyright 2015