I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.
People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.
Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.
We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: "Royalty, heroism, and the streets.