NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Jean-Michel Basquiat on 13 March 2025. Jean-Michel Basquiat has been played on NTS shows including TTB, with Test Pressing Instrumental Version 1 (Extrait), 1983 first played on 16 January 2018.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 August 12, 1988) was an American artist and is cited by Graham Thompson as the first painter of African descent to become an international art star.[1] He started as a graffiti artist in New York City, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting. Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988.