Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 In : Tales From Da Graff Side
I used 2 chill in Downtown Brooklyn alot around these projects called Fort Greene in Brooklyn NY .I remember catching marker tags on 25 Monument walk close by a Precinct ,St Michaels Catholic Church, a Library and P.S 67.Iit was this one night i was catching marker tags from the 11th floor on my way down 2 the 1st yet i didnt made it cause between the 7th and 6th floor i got caught tagging up in the hallway by a group of kids with durags and there pants sagging as they w... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 24, 2011 In : Bio
How it all started - About 9 or 10 years old hanging out with the big kids I picked up spraypainting in 1982 while others were writing names of their favorite rock or heavy metal band I decided to spraypaint parked cars on my block. I knew it was wrong spraypainting peoples cars into racing cars with numbers and fancy lines and shapes on the hood and doors of the cars but it felt so fuckin good I could not stop so I began walking around with what I had left of the paint and began writing my ... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, May 19, 2011 In : Bio
To say that I invented a particular style would be ridiculous as it would be to say that Jimi Hendrix was the only rock guitarist - what, the purist scream, about Eddie Van Halen, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and a dozen others? The same is true in writing, which to me is the equivalent of graceful hand style and lettering accompanied by raw bold intensity under pressure. Before me came dozens, going as far back to the inventor of the “Broadway Elegant,” style, DEAN BYB, an... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, May 15, 2011 In : Bio
In the mid to late 70's I started noticing the colors of the paintings on the walls and trains. I soon learned more about the underground culture called "writing" aka graffiti. Everything about it called my attention.
Then I met Jean13 BYB (Bad Yard Boys). He was painting these amazing murals.. I would always hang around him when he was painting one of these walls, asking questions and bothering him to show me his black book.I guess I bothered him so much that he decided to... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 In : Bio
The Royal Kingbee UW, AKA Kbornik Acid, AKA Kborne, was born in Harlem NYC, and raised in the Bronx in the early 70‘s. Kingbee began his illustrious career painting graffiti on walls until gathering recognition and eventually being commissioned to perform his artistic abilities for numerous businesses, public and private all throughout the city of New York. Some being Youngland, Bacardi, and RiteAid just to name a few. Highly talented, respected, eccentric and probably the most underestimat... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, January 28, 2011 In : Bio
NIC ONE was born in the South Bronx. As a kid growing up there he would become fixated on the New York City Subway movement. Through the many colorful influences that he pick up living close to the subway train lines NIC ONE would become what he came to admire the most a subway artist. Being an active subway writer and loving the artwork that he would often see on the side of the subway trains he would grow to eventually photograph the subway movement. NIC ONE would become known as b... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 11, 2010 In : Bio
I was first introduced to graffiti by my cousins, 2Rob, and Jab. They were a pair of brothers who lived on Walton, and 161st, in the shadows of Yankee Stadium. I guess that explains why I’ve always been a Yankee fan and loved the Bronx Bombers. I’d spend summers with them and we would play in abandon lots and take dips in Muloly’s pool, until we all caught ear infections and that put an end to cool dips in that shit pool. Whenever we would hear the rumble of the 4 train, we w... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 In : Bio
The man, the myth, the legend - Cope2. He's done it all, and to this day he is still doing his thing. He is the King of all Kings. Cope2 has lived his whole life in the Bronx, growing up amongst abandoned buildings in the South Bronx on the opposite end of the earth from Wall Street in Manhattan. He came to graffiti like everyone else in those days, at the age when young men and women begin to explore the urban labyrinth where we all live.
Cope2 is a graffiti artist who ... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 25, 2010 In : Writers Words
I started writing at a young age but didn't take to it for a few years
being I was more of a tag-along for ESP Crew. I kind of just hung with
writers that my older brother hung out with. As they ran in and out
of subway lay up and yards me being young I never really found
much fun in this activity and was forced to go and be a look out I went
anyway time & time again I mainly just used there scraps and left
over paint to catch tags on the insides back then in 1980 I wro... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 In : Bio
I started writing in 1980 I use to write JOKER and all i did was tag everything everywhere until I got in trouble in my school because I had my tag all over the place and the principal made me clean up all the school,,and when i came back home I immediately took out my sketch book and began to try new tags until i came up with SKE in 1981. I'm from a town in Puerto Rico called Carolina. I’am one of the pioneers in Puerto Rico ,also 2 guys that use to write CLS and... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, October 3, 2010 In : Short Words
I WRITE SERE ONE 357.... MAIN CREW I REP IS 357... BUT ALSO DOWN WITH KRT... BOMB SQUAD.. KED AND RTD...IM FROM QUEENS, I CAME OUT IN 1989.. BY THE TIME ALL THE TRAINS WERE ON THE WAY OUT....SO I STARTED OFF BY BOMBING HIGHWAYS...THEN WENT ON TO START DOING STREETS AND ROOFTOPS. BRIDGES, CLEAN TRAINS POWER HOUSES U NAME IT..
I WAS STRICTLY A VANDAL. I LOVED VANDALISM.. HUGE STOMPERS, THROWYS, OR NICE BLOODY DRIPPY INK TAGS......NOTHING AGINST PIECERS.... BUT I WOULD RATHER TAKE 10 CANS OF PAIN...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, September 12, 2010 In : Interview
When where and why u started graffiti and who you started with, why you got into it ? Started
writing in the late 90's, but didn't take it too serious then, doodle
here tag there. In my hood I'd see dudes in b-boy cyphers carrying
around blackbooks all tagged up so at that impressionable age of course I
had to follow suit. It wasn't until I linked up with Seak2 and Faust
around '00-'01 that I started taking the whole graffiti thing a little
more serious. With the city being my ... Continue reading...
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