S2E7: Cey Adams: The Visual Architect of Hip Hop

24 min · 17. juni 2026

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Cey Adams describes hip hop as a table with four legs - music, breakdancing, fashion, and graffiti. He started out as a kid painting subway tunnels alongside Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat and hanging out at clubs with the Talking Heads, Blondie, and Andy Warhol. At 19 he earned representation by the gallery Graffiti Above Ground. Two years later he was designing for the Beastie Boys and Run DMC. Ever energetic and outgoing, he melded personality and artistic vision and became the founding Creative Director of Def Jam Recordings. "MoMA | Cey Adams: An Insider's Look at Hip-hop Culture" [https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/04/28/cey-adams-an-insiders-look-at-hip-hop-culture]. www.moma.org. Retrieved January 12, 2018. Cey Adams https://ceyadams.com/about/ [https://ceyadams.com/about/] Amy Devers, Clever Podcast Ep. 204: Cey Adams on Designing and Defining Hip-Hop Visual Culture https://www.cleverpodcast.com/blog/ep-204-cey-adams [https://www.cleverpodcast.com/blog/ep-204-cey-adams] Soren Baker, Cey Adams: Power to the People, Flood Magazine, https://floodmagazine.com/217389/cey-adams-power-to-the-people/ [https://floodmagazine.com/217389/cey-adams-power-to-the-people/]

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S2E7: Cey Adams: The Visual Architect of Hip Hop

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