Joe Mendonsa

“It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in…”

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“This bores me. Would anyone like to play a game of basketball?”-Prince to Charlie Murphy (allegedly).

“The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.”

“Why must it feel so wrong when I try to do right, do right

Oh whoa whoa whoa

Sorting through paradise when I’m closing my eyes

I’m, Mr. Solo Dolo”

“He can only hold her for so long

The lights are on, but no one's home

She's so vacant

Her soul is taken

He thinks, What's she running from?

Now, how can he have her heart

When it got stole?

So he tries to pacify her

'Cause what's inside her never dies”

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“Rappers screaming in our ears like we’re deaf, tempt me, do a number on a label, eat up all they emcees and drink ‘em under the table”

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First finished painting of the new year. I tried out some new things with this one.

“No matter where life takes me, find me with a smile

Pursuit to be happy, only laughing like a child

I never thought life would be this sweet

It got me cheesin' from cheek to cheek”

Wanted to try out something new, I didn’t use any paintbrush on this piece. I only used pallet knives and splattering paint to make this.

“I look around and Sin City's cold and empty

No one's around to judge me

I can't see clearly when you're gone”

“And I hope you find your passion, cause I found mine in this music

But I hope it’s not material cause that’s all an illusion”

“I’m flexing steel, I’m flexing still, I’m sitting high, I’m tipping slow, I’m Texas trill, Texas Trill, but in NY we spit it slow”

A$AP Rocky, 2’x2’ acrylic on canvas