Collectors’ Picks | Swizz Beatz

The legendary music producer reveals his picks from ‘OVR:2020’


Kasseem ‘Swizz Beatz’ Dean is not only music royalty – and the producer of DMX, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Busta Rhymes – he’s also a long-standing champion of visual art, credited with inspiring many in the hip-hop community to follow suit. He and his wife Alicia Keys have put together The Dean Collection, where artworks by prominent voices like Arthur Jafa and Kehinde Wiley jostle with pieces by up-and-coming artists including Jordan Casteel and Nina Chanel Abney. Swizz called in from the Middle East to talk about some of the ‘OVR:2020’ works that piqued his interest.

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