Jay-Z finally got that "Basquiat" painting he been rapping about..

[joeyfkncrakk]

Is Blue gonna lean on it?

Is Blue gonna lean on it?

Idgaf... This post right here is guts bro

 

[lazypakman]

took me 5 mins to draw that.with one hand.

where the fuck is my 6 million?

 

[lookdude]

nigga was high as fuck when he drew his paintings

 

[GovernmentCheese]

Shit is ugly to me but another smart move by Jay, paintings only grow in value making them worth investing in. Ten years later .... $$$$$

 

[The_Man]

Could somebody explain the "message" in that painting to me? im not smart enough the figure this shit out, Jay lost if he paid mills for that shit, whats the message?

 

[The_Man]

my little boys picture on the fridge shits on this.

 

[GovernmentCheese]

Could somebody explain the "message" in that painting to me? im not smart enough the figure this shit out, Jay lost if he paid mills for that shit, whats the message?

Bruh, paintings are a big investment. Art is as much of an investment as real estate is. You turn around and sell it years later for a profit..it's how the rich get richer. You could make more money by storing $4.5 million in a painting and then selling than a bank while collecting interest. It's not just "paint on a canvas". Cars are far more worse when we're talking investments, they lose so much value as time goes on.

 

[lamontbdc]

dont know about them but i wasnt tryna be funny

Me either I'm trying to get paid

 

[BrazilianHairMoney]

Here go my son drawings....they may be worth millions

Ludacris

wiz Khalifa

and he's getting better

 

[MrCrookedLetter]

The Luda one looks good nh, but Wiz looks like he had stroke

But your son is talented though

 

[lazypakman]

in before this thread turns into posters upping their own hand drawn work of rappers thinking,''if there's one time i can get away with this....''

 

[nillerthekid]

Shit is ugly to me but another smart move by Jay, paintings only grow in value making them worth investing in. Ten years later .... $$$$$

Only if the artist "stays hot". Imo using a painting by a relatively new artist as an investment can be dangerous, it will only increase value if Basquiat remains "hot", and could just as well be another in for the moment artist

 

[DarthRozay]

Could somebody explain the "message" in that painting to me? im not smart enough the figure this shit out, Jay lost if he paid mills for that shit, whats the message?

It's art. The meaning could be "I need to get my life together" or it could be "I'm in love with that girl". whatever you get from it is the answer, there's no right and wrong.

 

[Nah Son]

Damn I can draw in that range, these type of drawings/paintings is worth serious loot? *pulls out paint*

No bullshit.....I got rack of bullshit like this on my 3rd grade resume

dumb ass niggas

it aint about the fucking picture itself its about the message the artist was trying to get across

lots of peopel today can paint mimicking picasso or van gogh

but they not comparable artists they just copiers

put it this way

rapping has advanced now to where many ppl can rap as good as sugarhill gang did back in 1978

but that doesnt mean you will have the success they had if you did that today

but back then it was unique and new and not seen and represented something

but art world moves on

this is the same in any art

citizen kane was a dope movie when it came out in 1938

if u made that shit now you wouldnt win oscars and shit, hell that shit would be a straight to dvd at best, and thats if you got someone to put money behind it, which is unliekly

when jaws came out it was the scariest movie ever and ppl literally were afraid to go into the water, trips to beach resorts areas went down dramatically, and sharks, who had only attacked like 20 ppl in the 30 years prior to jaws coming out

all of a sudden became an endangered species cause ppl were killing sharks left and right afraid a "jaws" scenario might happen

today if jaws came out not only would it not be scary, but there are scarier things coming on tv at 4pm in an random episode of criminal minds or some shit

if you made jaws today you woudlnt make as much money as jaws made at the time, movies have gone way passed that

but that doesnt mean we should look at jaws and say its some bullshit

same thing with this basquiat shit

son went full usmarin mode

 

[poindexter2]

took me 5 mins to draw that.with one hand.

where the fuck is my 6 million?

GOAT post lol

 

[P-Dogg77]

No wonder his collection is that expensive, camel ass nigga is trying to cover up for the economic losses after buying a painting that might as well have been drawn by a demented Alzheimers patient.

 

[P-Dogg77]

"Jay Z has had a love affair with the late graffiti artist and fellow Brooklyn native for several years"

That explains why Basquiat was doing heroin until he OD'd on it. Just waiting for a lick of sense to kick into Beyonce's pea of a brain and BOOM! She'll be doing the same thing.

 

[SheerExcellence]

Damn I can draw in that range, these type of drawings/paintings is worth serious loot? *pulls out paint*

No bullshit.....I got rack of bullshit like this on my 3rd grade resume

dumb ass niggas

it aint about the fucking picture itself its about the message the artist was trying to get across

lots of peopel today can paint mimicking picasso or van gogh

but they not comparable artists they just copiers

put it this way

rapping has advanced now to where many ppl can rap as good as sugarhill gang did back in 1978

but that doesnt mean you will have the success they had if you did that today

but back then it was unique and new and not seen and represented something

but art world moves on

this is the same in any art

citizen kane was a dope movie when it came out in 1938

if u made that shit now you wouldnt win oscars and shit, hell that shit would be a straight to dvd at best, and thats if you got someone to put money behind it, which is unliekly

when jaws came out it was the scariest movie ever and ppl literally were afraid to go into the water, trips to beach resorts areas went down dramatically, and sharks, who had only attacked like 20 ppl in the 30 years prior to jaws coming out

all of a sudden became an endangered species cause ppl were killing sharks left and right afraid a "jaws" scenario might happen

today if jaws came out not only would it not be scary, but there are scarier things coming on tv at 4pm in an random episode of criminal minds or some shit

if you made jaws today you woudlnt make as much money as jaws made at the time, movies have gone way passed that

but that doesnt mean we should look at jaws and say its some bullshit

same thing with this basquiat shit

Feelings like a motherfucka. You know damn well this shit aesthetically looks like a 3rd grade painting/drawing. But hey, as Warhol says, "Art is anything you can get away with."

thats the same thing ppl say about hip hop you know. "it ain real music, any idiot can do it"

when billy joel made "we didnt start the fire" he said look i can just put words together and rhyme them, he made it in 5 minutes and it was a big hit too

you know you heard ppl say anyone can rap

but u disregard them cause they aint in the rap world so they dont know what they talking about

same thing here

but by all means

just like ppl say "anyone can rap i can do that"

if you think u can do this in 5 minutes or if your 3rd grade portfolio is this good

and u aint making millions

then u a stupid motherfucker

go do it, or else stfu

 

[Jabu_Rule]

Damn I can draw in that range, these type of drawings/paintings is worth serious loot? *pulls out paint*

No bullshit.....I got rack of bullshit like this on my 3rd grade resume

dumb ass niggas

it aint about the fucking picture itself its about the message the artist was trying to get across

lots of peopel today can paint mimicking picasso or van gogh

but they not comparable artists they just copiers

put it this way

rapping has advanced now to where many ppl can rap as good as sugarhill gang did back in 1978

but that doesnt mean you will have the success they had if you did that today

but back then it was unique and new and not seen and represented something

but art world moves on

this is the same in any art

citizen kane was a dope movie when it came out in 1938

if u made that shit now you wouldnt win oscars and shit, hell that shit would be a straight to dvd at best, and thats if you got someone to put money behind it, which is unliekly

when jaws came out it was the scariest movie ever and ppl literally were afraid to go into the water, trips to beach resorts areas went down dramatically, and sharks, who had only attacked like 20 ppl in the 30 years prior to jaws coming out

all of a sudden became an endangered species cause ppl were killing sharks left and right afraid a "jaws" scenario might happen

today if jaws came out not only would it not be scary, but there are scarier things coming on tv at 4pm in an random episode of criminal minds or some shit

if you made jaws today you woudlnt make as much money as jaws made at the time, movies have gone way passed that

but that doesnt mean we should look at jaws and say its some bullshit

same thing with this basquiat shit

Feelings like a motherfucka. You know damn well this shit aesthetically looks like a 3rd grade painting/drawing. But hey, as Warhol says, "Art is anything you can get away with."

thats the same thing ppl say about hip hop you know. "it ain real music, any idiot can do it"

when billy joel made "we didnt start the fire" he said look i can just put words together and rhyme them, he made it in 5 minutes and it was a big hit too

you know you heard ppl say anyone can rap

but u disregard them cause they aint in the rap world so they dont know what they talking about

same thing here

but by all means

just like ppl say "anyone can rap i can do that"

if you think u can do this in 5 minutes or if your 3rd grade portfolio is this good

and u aint making millions

then u a stupid motherfucker

go do it, or else stfu

Brother, any one can rap. That doesn't mean that they are crafty with it. Anybody can draw wiggly lines too. See where I'm going? Nigga didn't make shit. All the crackers who hyped up made a killing. Between him and the tomato soup guy, they had people going. At least Warhol ate off it though.

 

[SheerExcellence]

Could somebody explain the "message" in that painting to me? im not smart enough the figure this shit out, Jay lost if he paid mills for that shit, whats the message?

I know everyone gonna just flag this and say im wack or others will disagree and put feelings and say this is a bunch of scribblings that dont mean shit, and so be it

but fuck the price for a second. basquiat didnt create this thinking "im going to make millions" in fact the very piece itself is the opposite of that

he grew up bklyn and ran away from home at the age of 15 sleeping in park benches and living as a bum in the mid 70s up until the 80s with reganomics and shit you see two very different nyc's one as crack/drug/crime filled, and one with wall street rich ass motherfuckers that were supposed to be all pristine and clean

you got ppl going to prisons in the hood, while the rich are being lauded as bringing nyc back

you gotta remember in 60s and 70s nyc wasnt no place like it is now, it was much more urban and grittier

but the wall street bankers came in with their trickle down economics and their financial tricks and all of a sudden money was flowing in and the urban rougher areas were being displaced

now you may think this is all good, but those wall street ppl being all looked up to, while they still doing the same dirt and doing drugs and are evil and criminal like too, but they walk around with they chest poked out like they some big shots, they look down on the black, spanish, urban minorities, they walk around like they hot shit in their big fancy buildings and high rises they look down on the urban poor while they think very highly off themselves

well basquiat looks down on them

instead of making their high rises all nice and pretty and statuesque and fancy

he makes them look like children buildings

cause they are kids to him

he puts himself above them all, that is the reason why the king crown is on top

he sees above all this shit

he realizes that all this fancy shit aint shit, its childs play, and it doesnt lead you to a better status in life, its just like kids playing with dolls

also some of those buildings look kinda like prisons, esp the one on the right

maybe he is equating the new fancy shit with all these buildings as some sort of shit that traps you and he is equating that to a real prison

those to lines could be train tracks

maybe he saying this is what its like on the other side of the tracks, but its the same bullshit, ppl still in prisons trapped y corporate greed

but me me the poor urban youth who grew up here

i know these ppl aint better than me

they on drugs just like me

they breathe same air i breathe

and they put they pants on one leg at a time just like me

so the fact that I HAVE THIS KNOWLEDGE puts me above them all, im the real king

im the real person who has knowledge of self

they walk around and look down on me

but i really am above them all

cause i know money can't by me whats most important, and thats knowledge of self

now

the actual texture of the painting and the depth of the black and the yellows/orange, and the contrast might show more of the emotion he was feeling at the time he made it

and maybe that all comes thru and means something to jay-z since he essentially has done the same thing wiith his life

maybe he makes paintings primitive and simple looking cause ppl think blacks all simple and stupid, but the understanding of truth and knowlege come thru so clearly that he showing he the real king, even when he painting shit like a child, the simple child ppl think blacks are.

but i dont know i never met basquiat so i didnt ask him what he meant when he made this

maybe it dont mean shit