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In the late 70s, two teenage graffiti writers started tagging walls in SoHo and the East Village with SAMO, a shorthand for "same old shit." One of those artists was Al Diaz, and the other was Jean Michel Basquiat. Diaz joins us in the studio to talk about his ongoing contributions to New York's street art scene and the upcoming symposium at BKLYN COMMONS on art, murals and hip hop called Destination Bed-Stuy.