It seems to me throughout history there are more than a few of the greats that die young. Jimmy Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, & Janis Joplin, just to name a few. They touched so many people with their music. Artists have a way of doing that. Jean-Michel Basquiat was very intelligent; by age four he was reading & already started to show his gift for art. Born in Brooklyn, New York, by age 11 he could fluently speak, read, & write fluently in Spanish, French, & English. Even though Jean-Michele excelled in schooling he dropped out by the 10th grade. His father disowned him, so he made money selling t-shirts & homemade post cards. By 1976 Jean-Michel was expressing his artistic side through graffiti in the Lower Manhattan area. He called himself SAMO. He would inscribe messages on the wall like; “SAMO as an end to bogus pseudo-intellectual. My mouth, therefore an error. Plush safe.. He think.” or “SAMO as an end to mind wash religion, nowhere politics and bogus