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DC Graffiti is dead

 

I was in DC today.. Graffiti in DC is dead.. its just filled with a buncha shit talkers who dont paint.. except for a few that have alraedy been mentioned.. Give props to the ones who made DC graff Evade,Felon,Smk,NAA crew, Clear, Some, Ever, Bear, Eon, Cast, Ultra, Sime, FFC, TFM crew, Cose, all the old school heads who were painting when i lived there.. Those are the names i would see every day...over the last 5 years i ahve seen DC graffiti slowly dwingling.. its sad but its true...

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to KONG.. e-mail me.. at pjaysun@aol.com

i met u at tower records that day before u left to college.

i got some stuff i want to talk to u about.

 

and to all the older DC cats... i apologize for all the toys who messed up your spots. not all the 2nd and 3rd generation writers are like that.

us younger guys support and respect u guys...

so work with us.. so we can keep DC alive.

we'll put in our part and u guys be our mentor.

 

i totally agree with clear in his free agents book.

 

"before too long, DC's time will come again. Every year more new writers with promise pop up. Some of them will stick around long enough to make a difference."

 

peace.

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Originally posted by cover .

ok..

 

maybe free agents is somewhat limited.

 

but so what?

 

The book covered everything it needed to.. i know cuz i was in DC during the early to mid 90s... he may have left a few out that deserved to be in it.. like a few DNC kids.. but i still give DNC no respect becuse they more or less destroyed DC history on the red line.. and went over shit on purpose..

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ohh come on

 

free agents had a lot of classic shit in it but it definetly was one sided (as usual) I can think of at least 20 writers it left out. If you are going to include sime and eon you would also have to include other people painting during that time.

 

what about all the elk shit in dc,,,, vaze , kade, evil (seva), tale, cose, coma, nore, clue, the list goes on and on.... all of the above have painted way more than sime and eon..... you cant write a book about the history of a city and only include the people your buddies with. like i said there is some classic dc shit in there but its not like it was a magazine article...that book is going to be looked back on and people are not going to know the whole story.... you have to either include everyone or not do it at all..... I don't know just my 2 cents.

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on vaze/evil/kade and the rest of ai;

 

those kids are def. on the underrated list when in comes to dc. that crew single handly put in work in almost every aspect of illegal graffiti in washington dc in the late ninties. jale still has parts of dc on lock.

 

same goes with eon, despite all the shit talking that revolves around that kid, he's been around for a long time. more than you think. i'm not stating that he could bless a wall as well as he could bless a mic, but that doesn't matter if your talking about quanity.

 

v-street was the perfect example of late ninties dc graffiti, in my opinion. just around the time the hall of fame started to get real heated.

 

 

 

and this is all coming from a outsider who had a look into the scene with help from a friend who came up with a lot of these kids. i got the run around, i suppose, if it was at all biased, whos to say. i know what i observered thought and am willing to hand out props that i think are well deservered.

 

 

 

 

can any one confirm if the felon/smk/cha little prodo. is still there. that has to be one of my favorite walls ever...

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can any one confirm if the felon/smk/cha little prodo. is still there. that has to be one of my favorite walls ever... [/b]

 

Are you talkin about the Pstreet production? The one that says "you cant beat that wit a bat" with cycle.smk.felon.rust.. if you are then sorry bud.. but i heard that its gone.. ia int been down there for a while but i last yeard from clear that they did a new production on it with sope i think? But im not sure.. but that was a nice prodcution before.. i used to walk by it every day on my way to the kaffa house!!!!!

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Re: ohh come on

 

Originally posted by the nova

free agents had a lot of classic shit in it but it definetly was one sided (as usual) I can think of at least 20 writers it left out. If you are going to include sime and eon you would also have to include other people painting during that time.

 

what about all the elk shit in dc,,,, vaze , kade, evil (seva), tale, cose, coma, nore, clue, the list goes on and on.... all of the above have painted way more than sime and eon..... you cant write a book about the history of a city and only include the people your buddies with. like i said there is some classic dc shit in there but its not like it was a magazine article...that book is going to be looked back on and people are not going to know the whole story.... you have to either include everyone or not do it at all..... I don't know just my 2 cents.

 

And you my friend.. ur a hippocrit.. cuz your magazine was one sided as well.. only reppin your friends and a chosen few others.. and you are THE nova? as in northern VA?... better check again champ.

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Originally posted by drinkmycum

 

The book covered everything it needed to.. i know cuz i was in DC during the early to mid 90s... he may have left a few out that deserved to be in it.. like a few DNC kids.. but i still give DNC no respect becuse they more or less destroyed DC history on the red line.. and went over shit on purpose..

 

Shit can't run for ever!! plus most of the red line got took out by kaos and some little latino gangsta!!! those dnc kids left what was good enough to be left!:D plus if i remeber correct there was a little bit of beef there for a minute before those kids took a lot of that stuff out.and thats what happens when beef happens.

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Originally posted by BIG T

 

Shit can't run for ever!! plus most of the red line got took out by kaos and some little latino gangsta!!! those dnc kids left what was good enough to be left!:D plus if i remeber correct there was a little bit of beef there for a minute before those kids took a lot of that stuff out.and thats what happens when beef happens.

 

Its not about shit running forever.. its about perserving the history of DC.. trust me.. there is plenty of room on the fuckin red line for everyone.. and i know about the beef END had with DNC.. i was there when it all went down.... its still not a reason for goin over the fathers of DC graff...

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Re: ohh come on

 

Originally posted by the nova

free agents had a lot of classic shit in it but it definetly was one sided (as usual) I can think of at least 20 writers it left out. If you are going to include sime and eon you would also have to include other people painting during that time.

 

what about all the elk shit in dc,,,, vaze , kade, evil (seva), tale, cose, coma, nore, clue, the list goes on and on.... all of the above have painted way more than sime and eon..... you cant write a book about the history of a city and only include the people your buddies with. like i said there is some classic dc shit in there but its not like it was a magazine article...that book is going to be looked back on and people are not going to know the whole story.... you have to either include everyone or not do it at all..... I don't know just my 2 cents.

nore(i dont think so)and clue is pretty new to the game..... but for sure SIRE, STREN, ect... those kids fucked that town up more than anyone, plus KAOS and SUM... they rocked out pretty hard starting in like 93... NCQ3... one of the OG's of the red line..... GLOCK, NICA..and the whole BU crew went pretty hard...a crew outta Maryland called ESC(ASONE, FIN, STATIC...) those kids were getting down when i started in 91. lots and lots of middle school dc cats got left out...

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Originally posted by drinkmycum

And you my friend.. ur a hippocrit.. cuz your magazine was one sided as well.. only reppin your friends and a chosen few others.. and you are THE nova? as in northern VA?... better check again champ.

 

I'm gonna have to disagree. It's a nice Tri-State area magazine that pretty much focused on all of the major players of Virginia for the premire issue. There's a good selection in there and the VA people he presented were quite possibly the #1 champ-yons of the Old Dominion. I mean you have ups, but those kids have way more ups and they're in demand. When you ask out of state kids "Who would you like to see from VA" they would probably say "Umm, Elk Rei Sigh Penis". And I'm sure he doesn't know all those cats in the street art section. He put in a lot of work into that magazine and I would buy more to support him for the next. It took a lot of money to publish all of those. And if anyone had their own magazine they would put most of our friends in there. It's a fact.

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Fuck virginia! its wack richmond is good and a few areas around it but nova is fuckin old and played out like a 90 year old whore so fuck it!dc isnt that bad atleast we do got people paintin but they need to be paintin alot more so be yall need to get out and be that person who does make a differance in a positive way about graffiti now i know i sound like a god damn preacher but this is what need to happen there always gonna be beef so just deal with it and fuckin get out and paint! bring dc outta this slum hole and make it happen yall! im doiing my part

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Originally posted by drinkmycum

can any one confirm if the felon/smk/cha little prodo. is still there. that has to be one of my favorite walls ever...

 

Are you talkin about the Pstreet production? The one that says "you cant beat that wit a bat" with cycle.smk.felon.rust.. if you are then sorry bud.. but i heard that its gone.. ia int been down there for a while but i last yeard from clear that they did a new production on it with sope i think? But im not sure.. but that was a nice prodcution before.. i used to walk by it every day on my way to the kaffa house!!!!! [/b]

 

 

that's not all what i am talking about it..

it's over by the washington post building.

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Originally posted by !!!

 

 

that's not all what i am talking about it..

it's over by the washington post building.

 

on the amtrak line???????

i think they buffed under that bridge if thats the one your talking about.

i always like the production they did a long ass time ago right off the red line in that lot, a little past rhode island ave.... that one was dope!:D :D

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Word, those b/w tunnel flicks bring back old memories.......

I painted there a bunch w/ cycle.... back then that tunnel wasn't even finnished

You can't forget CYCLE'S hugre influence on DC

We got caught bombing around 1990 ish ........ they had no idea what graff was..........they didn't know how to deal with us writing on this electrical box..so they let us go. stupid cops.

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Re: Re: Re: ohh come on

 

Originally posted by EL MASKO

 

I'm gonna have to disagree. It's a nice Tri-State area magazine that pretty much focused on all of the major players of Virginia for the premire issue. There's a good selection in there and the VA people he presented were quite possibly the #1 champ-yons of the Old Dominion. I mean you have ups, but those kids have way more ups and they're in demand. When you ask out of state kids "Who would you like to see from VA" they would probably say "Umm, Elk Rei Sigh Penis". And I'm sure he doesn't know all those cats in the street art section. He put in a lot of work into that magazine and I would buy more to support him for the next. It took a lot of money to publish all of those. And if anyone had their own magazine they would put most of our friends in there. It's a fact.

 

It all comes down to this.. The author of Free Agents was Roger Gastman... Roger Gastman does While You Were Sleeping... Then we have the author of Beautiful Decay... Im not gonna mention his name for his own privacy... Now... These 2 magazines are more or less the only 2 decent graff mags out of the "tri-state" area. Now doesnt it seem kinda wack that the author of Beautiful Decay (THE NOVA) will come on and talk shit bout the only other magazine out of the area? I think so... Seems kinda strange.. I didnt know there was soo much commercialism in graffiti... for a second.. i thought this was an underground subculture that didnt revolve around money and the "Ice on yo neck".. sorry.. i must have been mistaken.

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actually

 

talking shit?i was not talking shit...just stating some facts. I give the book its props but there were some that were left out. as for b/d ...the people in the va article all have been putting in work for over 5 years or longer. also there were numerous times that i personally asked for submitions and never got them. every crew that has been painting in va for a established amount of time was represented in that article. Dos, gf, mc, msp,mds,aeo,ebt.... I can think of only a few people that the article left out. (exist, warp, phone, dick, forse,cense,aero, and a few other people.) there are a lot of new guys coming out and they will be featured in future issues but the goal of that article was to give a spotlight to people that are steadily building a scene from the ground up. I would like to hear a valid arguement against featuring any of the people in that 2 page spread. As far as my name being mentioned in that write up ..blame it on elk. I told him to write anything he wanted to about VA graff and thats what he wrote. I almost didn't run the article but he talked me into it. those are his words and they are uncensored. people expect me to travel all through out the state and flick shit. come on. if you didn't get in dont get your panties in a bunch send your shit in. if its good ill hook it up no bullshit graff politics. Also there is a difference between a graff mag and a book like i stated earlier. while you were sleeping started as a graff mag and was great. It has taken a new turn and changed its content. That is fine by me. it is professionally done and for that i give roger props. he is a good businessman and has put a lot of time and energy into wyws. its not the type of mag i do but to each his own. the whole point of what i said was that some people were left out and that is a shame since they might be forgotten in the future.

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Re: actually

 

Originally posted by the nova

talking shit?i was not talking shit...just stating some facts. I give the book its props but there were some that were left out. as for b/d ...the people in the va article all have been putting in work for over 5 years or longer. also there were numerous times that i personally asked for submitions and never got them. every crew that has been painting in va for a established amount of time was represented in that article. Dos, gf, mc, msp,mds,aeo,ebt.... I can think of only a few people that the article left out. (exist, warp, phone, dick, forse,cense,aero, and a few other people.) there are a lot of new guys coming out and they will be featured in future issues but the goal of that article was to give a spotlight to people that are steadily building a scene from the ground up. I would like to hear a valid arguement against featuring any of the people in that 2 page spread. As far as my name being mentioned in that write up ..blame it on elk. I told him to write anything he wanted to about VA graff and thats what he wrote. I almost didn't run the article but he talked me into it. those are his words and they are uncensored. people expect me to travel all through out the state and flick shit. come on. if you didn't get in dont get your panties in a bunch send your shit in. if its good ill hook it up no bullshit graff politics. Also there is a difference between a graff mag and a book like i stated earlier. while you were sleeping started as a graff mag and was great. It has taken a new turn and changed its content. That is fine by me. it is professionally done and for that i give roger props. he is a good businessman and has put a lot of time and energy into wyws. its not the type of mag i do but to each his own. the whole point of what i said was that some people were left out and that is a shame since they might be forgotten in the future.

yes well stated! i really would like a copy of b/d magizine but i am broke! o well i will go rack one!:D :D :D
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no i think the fact is that unless you pay your dues for a established period of time you shouldn't expect to get national exposure. and like i said send in the flicks if its good stuff we will print it. we don't have any weird flick picking method. good shit gets in the mag. that is it..... we don't print anything that is not top notch (more or less).

send your stuff to:

b/d

p o box 1824

baltimore, md 21203

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