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Urbancoolab<\/strong> proudly present their debut collection by AS84<\/strong>. Helmed by Amar Stewart<\/strong> is a conceptual artist who carved out a niche sketching legendary rap artists guised as 17th century aristocrats. Harboring a knack for drawing as a kid growing up in London, Stewart<\/strong> first knew he wanted to paint professionally while running operations at Upper Playground. The San Francisco-based clothing brand often commissioned graphics from such Urbancoolab proudly present their debut collection by AS84. Helmed by noted oil painter, Amar Stewart,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-C23","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nnoted oil painter, Amar Stewart<\/strong>, the capsule highlights a series of notable rap icons that have been painted in a way that creatively intersects the hip-hop and art communities. Previously
\ncovered by such notable publications as The New York Times and Complex Media, check out
\nStewart\u2019s portraits of Biggie, Nas, JAY-Z<\/strong> and more like you\u2019ve seen them before. For more check out the collection here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\ngraffiti artists like Saber, David Choe & N8<\/strong>, which over time motivated Stewart<\/strong> to take up the practice himself. Being surrounded by such awe-inspiring work moved the artist to study the masters that came before him en route to uncovering his own expressive ethos.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Untitled-design-3.png?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1\")
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