GEORGE DUBOSE
OPENING
Notorious B.I.G.
RIGHT
Biz Markie
DuBose’s passion for photography and love of music led him down a career path that he couldn’t have ever planned for himself. He started starting out taking photos of his friends and other interesting people hanging around the New York club scene, and even had a chance to shoot Madonna’s first concert when she was fronting a band called “The Breakfast Club” at Uncle Sam’s Blues in Long Island. “I shot one set and went backstage and introduced myself and tried to give her some encouragement. She was trying to be sexy but was kind of nervous about it. I told her that it’s great, but don’t be nervous about your stage performance. Her manager kicked me out of the dressing room and I never heard from her again,” DuBose said. 132 Madonna is the only artist that DuBose would still love to make
a cover for. “Other than that, I have already worked with my heroes,” George said. And he has books to prove it -- several books because he never crosses genres in writing. Notably, DuBose planned and shot many of the iconic album covers for the new and growing Hip-Hop scene that was emerging from New York in the 80’s and 90’s. George DuBose is the Godfather of Hip-Hop photography. It often went like this. DuBose would get a call from the label to make an album cover or take a few press shots of an artist. DuBose would meet with the artist to discuss his or her concept, then take it and run. “Regardless of who has the concept, it needs to be practical for the technical execution