“Rap has had a lot of different kind of looks: rap has had its Picasso look where people weren’t always what they presented themselves as- almost like a skewed perception of themselves. Rap has had its Jackson Pollack stage where we just threw shit up on a wall and saw what stuck, and some of it was beautiful and some of it was garbage. I think now rap is trying to be more of a self-portrait. But the truest self-portraits are the Chuck Close kind of thing. There’s a picture of me, but the picture of me is made up of hundreds of pictures of everything and everyone I’ve been a part of.”—Bun-B, necessary
