GN$F! Ernie Paniccioli with Notorious B.I.G.
Ernie Paniccioli is a name that you should be acquainted with. He is synonymous with photography and hip-hop amongst Jamel Shabazz and Joe Conzo – they form what I call the “Trinity of Hip-Hop Photography.”
I am blessed to know him as a great friend who is always ready to shed some useful knowledge on the game of life. Brother Ernie, as we affectionately call him, is extraordinarily down-to-earth and known to shoot off at the mouth, when necessary. Some may take it as angry but really, he is more awake some of these fools out ‘chea.
Harper Collins said:
“Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli, considered by many to be the James Van Der Zee of the hiphop generation, began photographing graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli literally recorded the beginning salvos of hiphop, today the most dominant youth culture on the planet. Be it Grandmaster Flash at the Roxy, a summer block party in the Bronx, the fresh faces of Jay-Z and Will Smith, the cocksure personas of Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and Eminem, or the regal grace of Lauryn Hill, Ernie Paniccioli has been there to showcase hiphop’s emerging talent.
With more than 200 photographs that have been culled from a vast archive, Who Shot Ya? is the first major pictorial history of hiphop culture.”
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