In 2002 I was invited to participate in a celebrity art auction for LIFEBEAT the music industry fights aids.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK all the artists who collaborated on this painting with me for LIFEbeat celebrity art auction: JAY-Z, Lil' Kim, Cam'ron, Usher, Ashanti, Mario, Redman, and Ja Rule.
I'd also like to thank the people who had to back out last minute or I couldn't get pieces from due to time constraints and conflicting schedules: L. L. Cool J, and Angie Stone, Busta Rhymes, Alicia Keys, DMX, Foxy Brown, Eve, Eminem, and Master P.
While I'm at it I have to give props to everyone's P.R. people and friends for helping out with getting it all wrapped up and squared away without all your help, this project would have gone nowhere.
THE SOUND OF ART celebrity art auction was held at the Puck building in Manhattan. It was a great time, and I got to meet a lot of old school graf heads like C E S , and Seen (whom I talked to about the time he tagged the Hollywood Sign. . .this man is a legend). I also got to meet some other great industry folk, like the hip hop freestyle demigod SUPERNATURAL (if you liked the freestyling in 8 mile, you got to see this guy). Some celebs were there, actors, musicians etc . . .you know the drill.
my COLLAB piece sold and raised a lot of money for AIDS awareness in the youth, and that's what it's all about. It sold for more thAn Marilyn Manson's piece as well as a painting by Brandon Boyd from Incubus.
