Martha Cooper has the reputation of being the first and foremost photographer of emerging Hip Hop culture In New York City. Hip Hop Files, Photographs 2979-1980 makes a significant part of her extensive and unique archive accessible for the first time. From 1999 to 2003, Akim Walta aka ZEB.ROC.SKI, well-known German Hip Hop head and founder of MZEE Records, searched out the subjects in the photos and conducted numerous interviews, obtaining insightful quotes and statements by over 70 Hip Hop icons to accompany the shots.