I saw this promotional slide of Public Enemy on eBay and thought the scene depicted looked familiar. I researched and quickly realized it must’ve been taken during the photo shoot of their album “Fear of a Black Planet”. I uploaded the photo that appears on the back of the album vinyl as comparison.

I did a deep dive into how promotional film slides are made and this is essentially a copy of a copy of the original negative. No clue how many of these were made or still exist, but I can’t find the regular photo version of this shot anywhere online which is interesting. Probably not worth much and I probably overpaid, but just a fun little addition to my collection.

Saw an auction for a sealed graded cassette copy of Public Enemy’s 1990 album “Fear of a Black Planet”. Music grading is very new and both the concept of grading and the company that graded this, Rewind Grading, might end up being a home run or a bust. Who knows. All I know is when I was thumbing my nose at cassette tapes in Sam Goody two decades ago, I never would’ve thought I’d drop a C-note on one someday.