Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Bobby Vylan and Keith Morris


 Bobby Vylan and Keith Morris backstage at Coachella 2025. 

Photograph by: Ithaka Darin Pappas

Bobby Vylan (2025) photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas


Lyricist, vocalist Bobby Vylan backstage at the Coachella Music festival in Indio, California on April 20th 2025 immediately following the Bob Vylan set. Photo by Ithaka Darin Pappas

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Several outlets including BBCd a statement from Avon and Somerset police in the U.K. announcing an inquiry into sets by the rap-punk group Bob Vylan and the Northern Irish rap group Kneecap.

During Bob Vylan’s set, the band’s singer Bobby Vylan (born Pascal Robinson-Foster) led Glastonbury crowds in chants of both “free, free Palestine” and, more controversially, “death, death to the IDF.”

Pascal Robinson-Foster

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Book: "Beyond South Central" legendary N.W.A. photographs by Ithaka Darin Pappas





The second edition of the 2016 photography book Beyond South Central (Sweatlodge Publishing) is now available on amazon.com. The book is the result of the three years Ithaka Darin Pappas freelanced for Priority Records, capturing the primary imagery of N.W.A., documenting almost the entire lifespan of the group, from their obscure South Central beginnings to their meteoric rise to controversial super-stardom. This publication includes iconic images such as The Miracle Mile Shot, The Bleacher Shot, Backstage In Phoenix and also rarely seen candid images of Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy E, MC Ren, DJ Yella and The D.O.C.

Ithaka Darin Pappas began experimenting with his father's 35mm and medium-format film cameras as early as age 5. He started assisting professional photographers immediately after high school, and within a year, began publishing much of his own work. Perhaps the most published (and republished) commercial photographic works by IDP are his early archival images of the influential LA Gangsta rap group NWA. Pappas worked for the West Coast record label Priority Records between 1988 and 1991 and documented almost the entire lifespan of the group, from their obscure South Central beginnings to their meteoric rise to controversial super-stardom.