After blowing up seven cars, and killing four policemen, he got busted. He threw the controller down and turned to me. Hey, guess what, he said, his voice sounding normal for once.
When plans for the mural were first announced in November 2011, Roots co-founder Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter noted how he once gotbusted for graffiti as a teenager and a judge ordered him to clean up such vandalism by painting murals.