Chris "The Glove" Taylor ; Death Row Records
Original Leather Death Row crew jacket issued to Producer Chris "The Glove" Taylor, pioneering Los Angeles DJ
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July 25, 05:15 PM GMT
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5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Black leather jacket with silver fires coat clasps, press studs, and hardware, size unmarked. Interior label "To the Leather Limit / Melrose Ave / By J.A.L." Missing top 2 fireman clasp fasteners at right lapel, leather worn with age throughout.
"Glove" chain-stitched embroidery white leather patch at front right chest, Death Row Entertainment [missing: "Death Row] patch at front left chest. "D-e-a-t-h R-o-w" individual letter patches at back panel above "RECORD" single patch.
From the archive of Producer and DJ Chris "The Glove" Taylor
Abrams, Jonathan. “A Higher Level of Execution: Los Angeles, 1992-1993.” In The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop. New York: Crown, 2022.
ORIGINAL LEATHER DEATH ROW RECORDS CREW JACKET ISSUED TO L.A.'S CHRIS "THE GLOVE" TAYLOR, PRODUCER AND DJ IN THE FILM BREAKIN' (1984)
Founded by Dr. Dre, the D.O.C., American producer Dick Griffey, and Dre's former bodyguard Marion "Suge" Knight in 1991, Death Row Records dominated the West Coast Hip Hop charts, becoming synonymous with gangster rap by the end of the decade (Abrams, 321).
Death Row introduced themselves to the culture with Dr. Dre's solo debut The Chronic in 1992, an album which would pioneer the gangsta rap subgenre of G-funk and would peak at number 3 on the Billboard 200 charts, with United States sales going upwards of 3 million copies. The Chronic also introduced the new generation of gangsta rappers with features from Snoop Doggy Dogg, Warren G, and Nate Dogg. Following The Chronic with Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle in 1993 and Tupac Shakur's All Eyez on Me in 1996, Death Row became responsible for producing some of Hip Hop's earliest classics. Death Row's hold on the West Coast industry held until the mid-2000s, being sold from conglomerate to conglomerate until purchased outright by one of the label's earliest artists, Snoop Dogg in 2022.
Chris "The Glove" Taylor started out in the music industry as a DJ in Los Angeles during Hip Hop's golden age, appearing alongside Ice-T in Joel Silberg's 1984 film, Breakin'. Finding rapid success as DJ, Taylor soon started work as producer with Death Row Records—while much of Taylor's in-house production work remains uncredited, Taylor has notable credits on Nas' "Phone Tap," and Ice-T and Dave Storr's "Reckless" amongst many others.