Mercer Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Shit motels and shoplifting. 4 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Pittsburgh 1996 6 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 everyone posting their coolest shots 1983 on right with my two sisters (cannot believe the baby is now nearly 37) January 1991 around the time the gulf war started. dude with the mullet is Jcee - Sydney's first train king.(r.ip) look at those ratty nikes - Saved up so long for these and then couldn't afford another pair they were ptached up with Shoogoo and superglue. in 2015 a friend alerted me to ashot in a video clip from the same day 1991 graff exhibition - pittsburgh pirates hat because thats what Chuck d wore 1992 in front of a wholecar by Szar who now lives in NYC gigantic Fila boots. adidias USSR jumper stolen form a youth hostel. 1996 extremely hungover as best man for a mkate's wedding. I failed so hard that day was hoping to have some more dorky shots but a recent unfriending on facebook has taken some away dammit. 1994-1995 rave era goodness 6 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorydays Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, Mercer said: Shit motels and shoplifting. YO...that birdhouse tee i still have that deck hidden somewhere...back in the early 2000's birdhouse was going through this edgy shit after they lost all their original team riders. shit was fucked up cuz the deck back then cost around 50 because they were printed on "slick decks" which were around 15% more expensive and the art didn't come on regular decks. I just really liked the art work. Edited April 10, 2020 by glorydays 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Me and my maternal grandmother. This was 96 I believe. 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMdoubleXL Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) 17 hours ago, SMdoubleXL said: ante up muther fuckers ya know I’m lookin forward to makin this my own personal smash or trash thread Edited April 10, 2020 by SMdoubleXL Sorry, I’m a creep 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggity Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Heres one from college and one from like 5th grade. 3 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggity Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 another college shot. 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorydays Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 1996 2017 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 me back in 2000-01 Yo Drue I went to a few shows that presence performed at, still have one of his albums. Back when Chicago had a good underground hip hop scene 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drue_Down Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 @~KRYLON2~your pic reminds me of MCA in his prime. That’s bananas 🍌 We've probably crossed paths a few times. I worked with a lot of Chicago acts of that era, mainly collaborating with molemen, urbanized music, and a host of names and crews I haven’t said in 15 years. It truly was the golden age of underground hip hop, even though Prime correctly labeled Chicago “Hater-Ville.” If the Presence album is “Let It Begin”, I did the artwork. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Hahahah hell yeah! Prime, all natural, the molemen, presence, seal fresh, nacrobats, juice, vakill, qwel, and to many more to list. $5 shows at The Abbey pub, Fireside, and sub t. Good times, and precious memories. Btw that album cover was sick Drue 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drue_Down Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Jesus, those were all my people. Sub-t was my spot! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drue_Down Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) For the outsiders and millennials, watch this video. As us oldies know, recording and editing a video in the 90s was not easy, a lot of our friends lives may have accelerated if we had the current tech sitting in the palm of our hands now. This video is a time capsule of Chicago graffiti and fashion of the era. Edited April 10, 2020 by Drue_Down 5 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorydays Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 4 minutes ago, Drue_Down said: For the outsiders and millennials, watch this video. As us oldies know, recording and editing a video in the 90s was not easy, a lot of our friends lives may have accelerated if we had the current tech sitting in the palm of our hands now. This video is a time capsule of Chicago graffiti and fashion of the era. Ive edited vhs before...i needed like fucking 5 VCR's just to clip skate vids together 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 not gonna lie.. i'd bump that today. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalashnikov Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Damn this thread is fun. @Drue_DownI'm so envious of the Chicago glory days. I remember riding the Blue Line or the Metra when I was a kid in '95, '96 and just staring out the window, going home to (awfully) sketch and I couldn't wait until I was just a few years older so I could be out there myself. My old man would take us down to Marshall Field's on State for candy and the train ride to and from where I could just watch the graff was my absolute favorite part. Then of course before that could happen my parents moved us and I didn't get back to Chicago until '06 for a few years. It was still fun to paint at that time but the days of the city being covered in graffiti were long gone, your shit would ride for a day or so tops, maybe a weekend if you're lucky, and then the chocolate brown would be covering it. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted April 11, 2020 Author Share Posted April 11, 2020 18 hours ago, diggity said: You'd have made a pretty good Harry Potter. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 19 hours ago, diggity said: Heres one from college and one from like 5th grade. You look like one of those kids that go to grad school and has their own software startup. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Hey DRUE if you gotta copy of this tape hit me up. I loved this mix, but it almost impossible to find. I even got into contact with the man himself and he wanted a copy to 😆 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 High School, rolling in my hot pearl raspberry 64 Impala SS. Circa 1989. Press sheets of 12ozProphet issue #6. Circa 1998. Probably my favorite piece I ever did. Go figure that it’s also the only one I ever freestyled and was drunk as shit while I did it. Characters by a very young Os Gemeos. Brazil circa 1998. Framed cover artwork from 12ozProphet issue #3 by Barry McGee circa 1994. Out take artwork for an AKA x Stussy collab that we’d been working on. Circa 2006. Handstyle by Crude Oil (RIP). Some jewelry we shot for Mikimoto in the old AKA studio in Soho. This necklace was 1 of 1 and was $2 million dollars. Not seen is the armed guard that sat watching us the entire time. Mikimoto 1 of 1 ring. Something like $900k. Some photos we did back in the AKA studio days for the Supreme Book. Mark Gonzales artwork (top) and Rammellzee (bottom). Myself and @psm026 Old AKA / 12ozProphet studio in Soho was lit. 8 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 On 4/10/2020 at 4:25 PM, Schnitzel said: everyone posting their coolest shots 1983 on right with my two sisters (cannot believe the baby is now nearly 37) January 1991 around the time the gulf war started. dude with the mullet is Jcee - Sydney's first train king.(r.ip) look at those ratty nikes - Saved up so long for these and then couldn't afford another pair they were ptached up with Shoogoo and superglue. in 2015 a friend alerted me to ashot in a video clip from the same day 1991 graff exhibition - pittsburgh pirates hat because thats what Chuck d wore 1992 in front of a wholecar by Szar who now lives in NYC gigantic Fila boots. adidias USSR jumper stolen form a youth hostel. 1996 extremely hungover as best man for a mkate's wedding. I failed so hard that day was hoping to have some more dorky shots but a recent unfriending on facebook has taken some away dammit. 1994-1995 rave era goodness posted this on here about 10 years back 1990 - checking out pieces by blaze aim and shime would love to say this was in a yard but no being a fucktard on an intercity in 1991 reckon that's a poter (r.i.p) tag in the back. at least partly in school uniform judging by the collar. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 16 hours ago, ~KRYLON2~ said: Hey DRUE if you gotta copy of this tape hit me up. I loved this mix, but it almost impossible to find. I even got into contact with the man himself and he wanted a copy to 😆 I'm in northern California... and i have no idea how I have it in my posession because I know deejay bird is from Chicago and I honestly can't remember how I got it, but i have his mixtape called "aerosolics" on cassette tape... it's a mixtape with a bunch of graffiti/train Hip Hop on it from the 90s... rappers like KRS1 and the Artifacts, etc.. pretty sick mixtape though..i think it came into my possession around 2000 or 2001. I only know of two writers that i knew back in the day that had connections to Chicago... one was raised there and one lived and painted there for a few years... maybe one of them gave me the mixtape🤷♂️🤷♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 15 hours ago, misteraven said: Ever since I was about 12 or 13 I've wanted a '64 Chevy Impala... if i ever hit the lottery that will definitely be a purchase. I'm loving those handstyles! Titties! Solid post. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 @~KRYLON2~ 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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psm026 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 On 4/9/2020 at 10:36 PM, misteraven said: Don’t quite remember the year but very early 2000’s. Best guess is likely summer 2002. NYC over the trauma of 9/11 but before they got it all dialed in and shit turned corporate as fuck. Can’t remember what even this was, only that I was drunk and having fun at a block / park party. Kids were skating, someone was DJing, 12oz was exploding and I was having fun. That pic was 06’ (I took it) at the park across from aNYthing store.. it was Futuras 50th bday jam they did. And yeah we drank mad brews that afternoon. 4 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 I have the CD version of that. Great mix for when your feeling nostalgic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 BTW the Time travel crew was on 88.5 or 89.3FM, I can't remember lol. Kevin Beecham was the main dude, I have some of his old compilations hidden in some box somewhere. They just played good hiphop from Chicago and everywhere else. I'm pretty sure I have a tape recording of early french and german artists he played on his show 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drue_Down Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 @~KRYLON2~ Kevin was the man, presence & I would roll through often to drop live freestyles & new music. I was raised on WNUR since the 80s. On Saturday (day time) they played unedited hip hop (even 2 Live Crew & Too $hort) I used to have crates of tapes from all their programming including dub reggae, drum-n-bass, dancehall, etc. It was a luxury to have access to an underground college radio station growing up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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