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“After 23 years in my possession, I’m very excited to share this iconic piece of hip hop history with the public,” Claiborne said in a press release.

As Billboard notes, the Biggie lot is expected to sell for anywhere between $200K and $300K. Included with the crown’s lot are three 36″ x 40” prints of the famous photo, the 10th-anniversary “K.O.N.Y.” photo, and the contact sheet. The crown, which has been in Claiborne’s possession since the shoot, bears the inscription “Crown from Biggie KONY Shot NYC 3-6-97″ and is autographed by both Biggie and Claiborne. from his iconic “King of New York” photoshoot with photographer Barron Claiborne in 1997, his final photo session before he was gunned down in Los Angeles just three days later. The marquee items up for auction include the crown worn and signed by The Notorious B.I.G. Related: Watch A 17-Year-Old Biggie Smalls Spit Fire On A Brooklyn Street Corner

The auction features 120 lots including iconic hip-hop artifacts, contemporary and fine art, vintage and modern fashion, jewelry, and luxury goods, and rare posters and flyers from the genre’s mid-’80s–mid-’90s “Golden Age.” The auction was co-organized by Monica Lynch, the former president of Tommy Boy Records, which helped launch the careers of a generation of hip-hop acts like De La Soul, Queen Latifah, Afrika Bambaataa, and Naughty By Nature. “We are so pleased to announce the auction with two unquestionable pillars of hip hop - Biggie and Tupac - with lots that offer an introspective look, in their own way, beyond their respective public personas.” This auction is a celebration of that story and the many ways in which hip hop continues to resonate across all aspects of culture,” said Cassandra Hatton, VP and senior specialist in Sotheby’s Books & Manuscripts Department, via press release. “Since its birth in the Bronx in the 1970s, hip hop has become a global cultural force, whose influence has grown over the decades to shape tastes in fashion, design, art, pop culture, and much more.

: Famed auction house Sotheby’s is dipping its toes into the hip-hop world with a special auction of high-value memorabilia from Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and more. You can browse all the sale results from the auction here. The letters wound up selling for more than $75,000. Other lots included in the first-ever Sotheby’s hip-hop auction included a set of letters written by Tupac Shakur while he was in high school. And nobody’s ever told me that they look at the photo and think the crown is plastic.” The time before, I photographed him in a white suit - instead of the tracksuit that most rappers were wearing back in 1997.”Ĭlaiborne also noted that the photoshoot nearly didn’t happen, as he initially received pushback from Biggie’s label head, Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs: “He said it would make Biggie look like Burger King. I did this because I liked taking pictures of Biggie. “I was mostly shooting celebrities and reportage. “I’m not sure that I even got paid for it,” he said. Without Biggie, the crown would not be worth. : The plastic crown worn by The Notorious B.I.G. in his final photoshoot before his death-which produced the iconic “King of New York” image used as a 1997 cover photo for Rap Pages magazine-sold for $594,750 at the Sotheby ‘s hip-hop auction on Tuesday night, according to the New York Post.Īs photographer Barron Claiborne, who initially purchased the crown prop and shot the famous photo (as seen above), explained, “This crown is a novelty item I bought it at a place on Broadway called Gordon’s.