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I kinda came into hip hop, not really as a photographer but more as a parent, um, my son and a number of his friends
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when they were kind of between the ages of twelve and thirteen, um, got very interested in breakdancing and hip hop and music, and there was, um, in Santa Fe
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There is not many opportunities to be exposed to hip hop culture and-and you know, other than the radio and the media, um
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They-these, my son and his friends asked me to take them to a concert um, and I wasn't sure at first but then I actually I realized that I was the only parent
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that was kind of willing to do it and they kept coming back to me to ask me to do it and I then I finally agreed.
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Of course, you know, here they are, twelve and thirteen years old, its a school night, and they want me to drive them to Albuquerque, which is, you know, seventy miles away
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And, to top it off, when I got to the theater, um, you know, about eight, nine o' clock at night, the kids said "Ok Dad," you know, "pick us up at two," and I said, and-and, you know, theres-theres just no way I was gonna leave, drop these kids off, and and pick them up
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you know, an-and later um, I didn't know much about hip hop, in fact I didn't know anything about hip hop, um, I was kind of a victim of um, media, I think, um, in terms of my misconceptions about the genre.
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Um, I had no understanding about the diffierientations between gangster rap and hip hop, um, what goes on at these things, you know, is it violent? is it scary? are they gonna, something gonna happen?
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You know, what is the extent of drug use and you know, just all the things I-I read about in the paper, so I, I went, and in a way that night kinda changed everything for me, um, I sat there, I, I watched this group of, of