Auction Ends: Oct 23, 2022 10:00 PM EDT

Memorabilia

Custom signed "No Sleep" Book + Vintage Mixtape from Legendary HipHop DJ Stretch Armstrong

Item Number: 324

Estimated Value: Priceless
Sold: 255 USD to rl2ac57ae

Number of Bids: 3 - Bid History

Item Description

Bid for a chance to win this exclusive, one-of-a-kind set from the legendary Hip-Hop DJ Stretch Armstrong (who is also an MCS Class of 1983 alum).

Signed copy of his Stretch's book No Sleep.: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999 (DJ Stretch Armstrong and Evan Auerbach)
Original, vintage Stretch Armstrong mixtape (Cassette from the 90s with his handwriting on it)

No Sleep. is a visual history of the halcyon days of New York City club life as told through flyer art. Spanning the late 80s through the late 90s, when nightlife buzz travelled via flyers and word of mouth, No Sleep. features a collection of artwork from the personal archives of NYC DJs, promoters, club kids, nightlife impresarios, and the artists themselves. Club flyers, by design, were ephemeral objects distributed on street corners, outside of nightclubs and concert halls, in barbershops and retail shops, and were not intended to be preserved for posterity. Through the 90s, they became both increasingly prevalent and more sophisticated as printing technology evolved. Overnight, however, with the birth of the internet, the club flyer essentially disappeared, and despite it being common at one time for promoters to print thousands of flyers for any given event, they are now hard to come by.

Stretch Armstrong is a world renowned DJ, record producer, and radio personality. He’s been a fixture in the New York hip-hop scene since the late 80s, when he started DJing downtown and making his own concert flyers with cardboard, scissors, and glue. His posters expressed the bold aesthetic of early hip-hop, and in 1990 he cocreated the "Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Show" on WKCR 89.9, which The Source magazine later named "The Greatest Hip-Hop Radio Show of All Time." Stretch and Bobbito introduced the world to Jay-Z, Wu-Tang, Nas, and Eminem, and dozens of other seminal figures in hip-hop. In 2015 Stretch starred in a documentary about the show.

Items will ideally be picked up at Manhattan Country School (150 West 85th Street). If winner is not able to come to MCS, winner should pay for shipping.