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Cultural historian and photographer, D-Ray (center) takes a photo with the late legendary MCs The Jacka (left) and Nipsey Hussle (right) backstage at the New Parish in Oakland in 2013.

D-Ray’s Photo Archive is West Coast Hip-Hop Gold

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Rapper Too $hort drives a drop-top old school car as MTV host Sway Calloway sits in the passenger seat and a film crew sits in the back recording an episode of MTV My Block: The Bay in 2006.

Hyphy Kids Got Trauma Pt. 3, ‘From DVDs to MTV’

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A Black woman in her 50s, a white woman in her 30s, a mixed-race woman in her 40s, a Latina in her 40s and a Black man in his 30s pose together on a stage after filming a live podcast episode.

Watch: How Women Shaped Bay Area Hip-Hop With D-Ray, Dime and CMG

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Keak Da Sneak is elated as the audience shows him love during his set at the Midway in San Francisco.

Getting 'The Shot' at the History of the Bay Day Party

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People handed Dregs-One rolling trays, hats and other miscellaneous items for him to freestyle about, and he did so with ease.

Dregs One Turns ‘History of the Bay’ Into an Epic San Francisco Day Party

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a spraypainted mural of the rap artist mac dre

Watch: ‘We Were Hyphy’ Celebrates the Bay’s Innovative 2000s Rap Subculture

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