Once upon a time before crack, inner city communities were blighted by poverty and unemployment - but not by the drug wars that tore families apart, destroying lives with needless violence and addiction. Jamel Shabazz was on the scene in the time before crack, capturing faces and places of an era that has long since disappeared. Best known as Hip Hop's finest fashion photographer and author of Back in the Days, Shabazz revisited his archives to unearth this extraordinary collection of never-before-published photographs.