Hebru Brantley's journey to Miami Seashore for the large-profile Artwork Basel art display was winding down when the Chicago-based street artist and De La Salle Institute alum was advised there was a single far more possible client who wished to meet him appropriate before his flight back home:Jay-Z.A mutual good friend had launched the hip-hop icon and entrepreneur to Brantley's work and set up a meeting among the two Dec
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