Listen: Basquiat and Hip Hop
![Photo of Jean Michel Basquiat dancing in the Mudd Club](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_constrained_small/public/images/2017-09/basquiatdowntown_lead.jpg?itok=G-JrvKVv)
21 Jan 2018
Basquiat’s early graffiti experiments as SAMO© intertwined with the burgeoning hip hop, rap and graffiti scenes of the late 1970s and 1980s. Discover the sound of the era.
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Listen: Basquiat and hip hop
Discover the sound of the 70s and 80s.