Video Interview: Painter Jérôme Laguarrigue Sits Down With New York Minute

He's Talib Kweli favorite painter, Meet Red Hook's Caravaggio from Gasface on Vimeo.

The enormously talented Jérôme Laguarrigue, creator of Hi-Tek and Talib Kweli's "Reflection Eternal" album cover and the painting that was inside of Grand Puba's "2000" album insert takes Gasface and NYM for a ride around Red Hook, Brooklyn and then to his art studio...

Laguarrigue discusses how his mom and Kweli's mom knew each other and how Puba made him wait for over 5 hours in a studio once. Also discussed is Laguarrigue's frightening life and death ordeal that involved a locked video store, an agitated gunmen and him hiding in the back....

-BIG D O