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Jean-Michel Basquiat (Dec 22, 1960 – Aug 12, 1988)

Today Jean-Michel Basquiat would have been 49 years old.
There’s no telling what he would be up to these days considering all that he accomplished by the time he died at the age of 27.

I love watching him in Downtown 81. The film had to
be overdubbed because the original audio was lost.
Saul Williams provided the voice for JMB’s character.
Basquiat’s band Gray has two songs on the soundtrack
and he offers up some poetry on Coati Mundi Hernandez’s
track Palabras Con Ritmo.

I also found out recently Basquiat
plays the DJ in Blondie’s Rapture video.