I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.
I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me
May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's
How could I be out there and not do anything?
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.