Kenny Scharf

Yeah, agreed.

Are you familiar with Kenny Scharf?

Oh, yeah.

I love his work, yeah.

But I was listening to the spoken word portion, like over the weekend, and something clicked with me that had not clicked until this moment.

And, you know, when she's name-dropping all the people, Fab 5 Freddy and Basquiat, all that, and then she says, um, uh, "Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf," right?

Yeah.

So I had just mindlessly been like taking this in, and, and I'm assuming I'm just, like people I, whose names I did not recognize, like I knew who Keith Haring was, but, uh, I didn't register Kenny Scharf right away.

And then I had a total like recall moment where, uh, there's this amazing This American Life episode.

Uh, one of the guys from This American Life is related to Kenny Scharf.

And Keith, are you familiar with Kenny Scharf's car bombs? ...

painting that he does where he paints on people's cars these little, like, cartoon characters.

Right.

Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Oh, and also, by the way, there's like all this new money.

Yuppies.

There's Fab Five Freddy and Basquiat.

Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.

Everyone came from Sha-Fra-Z.

Sha-Fra-Z to the beat.

Smurf, Freddy and Basquiat.

Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.

Everyone came from Sha-Fra-Z.

Sha-Fra-Z to the beat.

And so everything I'm reading in this book, it's just perfect synchronicity, is the lyrics to Danceteria.

In this biography, it's all about Sean Franzi, Kenny Scharf, Basquiat, Fab Five Freddy.

They're all name-checked.

And then she drops this track that I think is the album's banger.

There's Fairfly, Freddy, and Basquiat.

Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.

Everyone came from Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Jean-Michel Basquiat took the brief.