Kehinde is almost crossing over old medieval tradition (with the use of gold frames) with this modern day Hip-Hop feel to his figures. His works are very busy, with the background and the foreground being hard to decifer. His poses represent power and spiritual awakening. They are also portrayed in a heroic manner. The portraits are based on every day men he sees on the streets. He mixes hip-hop with Renaissance poses and gets the young men to pose. Kehinde decribes his work as "interrogating the notion of the master painter, at once critical and complicit.
Kehinde's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
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