The swap-meet seller who carried early rapSourced
He began with hair clips.
Then he sold records others avoided.
Korean immigrant Wan Joon Kim started trading at Los Angeles swap meets and opened a stall at the Compton Swap Meet in 1985. He became an early seller of gangsta rap records, including music by N.W.A., when many shops avoided the genre.
A market stall
became a doorway to a scene.
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