Al Diaz began writing his BOMB 1 graffiti in 1971 and when Jean-Michel Basquait moved to Diaz’s high school, the middle class kid from Brooklyn looked up to and befriended the older graffiti writer who lived in the East Village projects. Basquait and Diaz came up with a quasi religious concept they called SAMO, short for ‘same old shit’, which commented on the state of the world around them.

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