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Tammara Tillman Interview Part 1, Clip 4

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Tammara Tillman
Date: Time Period: 1971-1992; 2017-04-08; Interview recorded: April 8 2017 Material: Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder. Dimension: Total running time: 0:03:26
Creator: Tammara Tillman interviewed by Tabetha Karydas Identifier: aql:24483 Tammara_Tillman_Clip4

Description: Tammara talks about the evolution of hip-hop and how it was about performing/the performance. Tammara mentions Petey from Astoria Studios. He would bring strobe lights to Liberty Park for the performances. She says that there must have been about 800 people at those performances. Tammara raps one of her own songs and talks about losing contact with her cousin due to his heroine addiction. She became the only one left in Hollis as her crew slowly moved away.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:24487

Creator : Tammara Tillman interviewed by Tabetha Karydas

Date : Time Period: 1971-1992; 2017-04-08; Interview recorded: April 8 2017

Summary/Description : Tammara talks about the evolution of hip-hop and how it was about performing/the performance. Tammara mentions Petey from Astoria Studios. He would bring strobe lights to Liberty Park for the performances. She says that there must have been about 800 people at those performances. Tammara raps one of her own songs and talks about losing contact with her cousin due to his heroine addiction. She became the only one left in Hollis as her crew slowly moved away.

Subject : Disc jockeys; Rap musicians

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Coverage : Locations discussed: Hollis, Queens, NY Hollis (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder.; Total running time: 0:03:26

Identifier : aql:24483 Tammara_Tillman_Clip4

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Disc jockeys; Rap musicians

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