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Keith Perrin, Clip 10: The Start of FUBU

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Keith Perrin
Date: Time Period: 1970 - 2015; 2015-10-02; Interview recorded: October 2, 2015 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension: Total running time: 0:03:45
Creator: Keith Perrin interviewed by Ian Lewis and Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:24786 qmp-kp-clip-000010

Description: Co-founder Keith Perrin describes the start of the FUBU clothing line, including how the founders came up with the name, and how they began by selling tie-top hats at the Colosseum Mall in Jamaica, Queens.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:24862

Creator : Keith Perrin interviewed by Ian Lewis and Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1970 - 2015; 2015-10-02; Interview recorded: October 2, 2015

Summary/Description : Co-founder Keith Perrin describes the start of the FUBU clothing line, including how the founders came up with the name, and how they began by selling tie-top hats at the Colosseum Mall in Jamaica, Queens.

Subject : Hip-hop; New business enterprises; Entrepreneurship; Clothing and dress

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

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity.; Total running time: 0:03:45

Identifier : aql:24786 qmp-kp-clip-000010

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Hip-hop; New business enterprises; Entrepreneurship; Clothing and dress

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