He didn’t sell the images. He hoarded them. His hard drive was a museum of stolen moments: the raw terror in a politician’s eye, the sweat on a boxer’s brow, the private grief of a celebrity at a funeral. Beatsnoop believed that culture belonged to everyone.
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