@blackownedbklyn Great Page/Business to Follow. Follow now @blackownedbklyn ⬅️ Opening a record store wasn’t a long-held goal for Victorious De Costa (pictured), Barkim Salgado and Haile Ali. But the three friends, who came together over the years as members of the Five-Percent Nation, were passionate about music: Victorious, 44, and Barkim, 51, are former DJs, while Haile, 29, is a rapper and producer. The New York City natives also had serious vinyl collections teeming with rare and obscure LPs spanning jazz, soul, rock, hip-hop, African highlife, Jamaican dub, R&B, recited poetry and more. So last September, they made the exciting yet bittersweet move to share their treasured catalogs with the world by opening a record store, 
(@legacydumbo).
As one of less than 30 Black-owned record stores in the entire country — even as vinyl sales are skyrocketing — Legacy has another, bigger-picture mission. “When it comes to a lot of music, we don’t really have a hand in the business side of the industry, whether it’s marketing or distribution,” Haile says. “We’re the creators — but we don’t preserve our culture as well as other people preserve it. So, for me, this store is about preserving culture.” // 247 Water St. // Photo 1 by Tayo Giwa; Photo 2 by Daniel Askaripour #blackownedbrooklyn
