Sam Pattillo

On any day of the week it seems like there are more than a handful of songs featuring 2 Chainz making their onto the Internet. It's ridiculous. Has 2 Chainz sold out? Probably, but you can hardly blame him, even if his Instagram photos are more exciting than his career these days...

Jacob Lawrence Visually, Jacob Lawrence made a point that Cam'ron could be proud of -- Harlem is in the building. Jacob was born in Atlantic City and moved to Harlem when he was 13. His mother quickly enrolled him in an arts and crafts settlement house in Harlem in order to keep him busy...

William Tolliver William was born in Vicksburg, Missisippi in 1951, and although his mother worked in the cotton fields by day, she still managed to rear and educate her fourteen children. To stimulate their learning his mother often engaged William and his older brother in drawing contests...

Clementine Hunter Clementine would have made a good rapper. She was tough, self taught, and has a cool name. Ms. Hunter was born late in 1886 or early 1887 on a plantation rumored to be the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Cane River region of Louisiana...

Welcome to the wild world of contemporary hip-hop and R&B music where only one African American visual artist seems to exist -- Jean-Michel Basquiat. This singular and arbitrary focus is likely a result of rap being a highly aspirational genre. Ba...