Kevin Young's " Urgent Telegram to Jean-Michel Basquiat.Roger Reeves's "Boy Removing Fleas" references a painting by Basquiat.Adrian Matejka's " & Later" references Basquiat's Trumpet.Rickey Laurentiis's " Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta" references a painting by Basquiat. ![]() Browne's " upon viewing the death of basquiat*" Later editions and remixes of To Repel Ghosts did not have the Basquiat images. The early editions of the book included the painter's artwork on the cover. Kevin Young's To Repel Ghosts is perhaps the most extensive treatment of Basquiat in verse. Tate's second collection was entitled Flyboy 2.Įarly editions of Kevin Young's To Repel Ghostscontained artwork by Basquiat. You mentioned that your daughter, Miriam, wrote you a poem. That essay title later became the title for Tate's first collection of essays. Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel Lex. Years ago, Greg Tate published an essay "Flyboy in the Buttermilk" about Basquiat. Browne, Rickey Laurentiis, and Roger Reeves have written poems dedicated to Basquiat and his artwork. Jay-Z purchased Basquiat's " Mecca" in 2013.Īdrian Matejka, Mahogany L. "When I say it then you see, it ain't only in the musicīasquiat, Warhols serving as my muses" from "Illest Motherfucker Alive"īasquiat is referenced by various others in hip hop. I got Basquiats in the lobby of my spot" from "Ain't I" "Inspired by Basquiat, my chariot's on fire" from "Most Kingz" and "Grammy Family" Go ‘head, lean on that shit Blue, you own it." from "Picasso Baby" I won't scratch the Lambo" from "Picasso Baby" "It ain’t hard to tell, I’m the new Jean-Michel" from "Picasso Baby." Image sourceĪ few references to Basquiat in Jay-Z's lyrics: ![]() Jay-Z purchased Basquiat's "Mecca" in 2013. Paintings by Basquiat adorn covers of books by Amiri Baraka, Tony Medina, Roger Reeves, and others. Jay-Z, who owns paintings by Basquiat, has referenced the painter in his music. Kevin Young has produced a volume of poetry dedicated to Basquiat and his career. The late painter Jean-Michel Basquiat is easily one of the most referenced visual artist among black poets, especially black men poets. In James Baldwin’s mouth, My difficult beauty, my weak and worn, My future as any number of angels, Which is not unlike the beast Grendel, Coming out of the wild heaven into the hills And halls of the mead house at the harpist’s call With absolute prophecy in his breast And a desire for mercy, for a friend, an end To drifting in loneliness, and in that coming Down out of the hills, out of the trees, for once, Bringing humans the best vision of themselves, Which, of course, must be slaughtered.Books by Amiri Baraka, Tony Medina, and Roger Reeves featuring Basquiat artwork on the covers I am calling to that grain Of light, to that gap between his teeth Where the many-of-us fatherless sleep And bear and be whatever darkness or leaping Thing we can be. Lord, I want to be alive and open, A glimpse of power: the shuffle of a mother’s hand Over a sleeping child’s forehead As if clearing the city’s rust from its face, Which we mostly are: a halo of rust, A glimpse of power-James Baldwin leaning Into the word light, his voice jostling that single grain In his throat as if he might drop it or Already has. Lord, I want to be somebody’s child and chosen Water spilling over their scalp, water Taking the shape of their longing, a deer Diving into evening traffic and the furrow drawn In the air over the hood of the car-power And wanting to be something alive and open. All lions must lean into something other than a roar: James Baldwin, for instance, singing “Precious Lord,” His voice as weary as water broken over his scalp In a storefront Sanctified Church’s baptismal pool All those years ago when he wanted to be Somebody’s child and on fire in that being.
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