"royalty, heroism and the streets"

Jean-Michel Basquiat was defiantly NotInABox - starting off as a graffiti artist he did not want to be boxed into the graffiti movement. hanging with Madonna and Andy Warhol in downtown New York. he brought Hip Hop to a white dominant art world. known now as one of the most famous artists in the world, two decades after his death.

When asked what his art was about he would answer the same three things: "royalty, heroism and the streets". HipPOPguru.