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Busting out on the Roman graffiti scene in 1983, Massimo "Crash Kid" Colonna quickly established himself as a top breakdancer of his time. Aside from revolutionizing this genre, perfecting the head spin, and garnering international fame, he also left behind an enormous photographic archive of the glory days of hip hop across all mediums. One prominent theme is graffiti, and here are hundreds of photos by and of Crash Kid and his contemporaries posing and playing in front of the murals and tags they created and embraced.

Though Crash Kid's life was cut short by cancer at the age of 26 in 1997, the documentation brought by his nuclear position in the hip hop world led to a secondary and much larger snapshot of the people and places that made up these times -- that will now live and breathe forever.

* Publisher proceeds from the sale of this book benefit the Italian Association against Leukemia-Lymphoma and Myeloma (AIL)