Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 24, 2011,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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 Tuesday, October 12, 2010,
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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 Thursday, July 22, 2010,
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"When did you start writing?" After having been asked the question so
many times I do wonder exactly when was the instant when I started
writing so-called graffiti. I can't pinpoint the exact moment but I do
remember that I started to be fascinated by the writing on the hallways
of my projects when I was in the 5th grade. This was in 77 just before
the big blackout. I remember that the king of the hallways in the
McKinley Projects Building 905 on 161st and Tinton Ave was Jug... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, July 19, 2010,
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In 1979, I began my
career as an artist in the South Bronx the place where I was born and
raised.
In 1988 I was included in the group exhibition
at Fashion Moda New York City, Titled, "The South
Bronx Show." I've exhibited my work at Fashion Moda for the next 3
years. At the same time I had exhibited at PPH gallery as well. My education was in textile design from the Fashion Institute of Techn...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, March 14, 2010,
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 Born and raised in the
streets of Washington Heights, TOTEM was no stranger to the IRT #1 line
which passed right through Broadway. Seeing all the great burners on the
1 line at that time, when graff was graff, he got interested in it real
quick.
Since art ran through his blood, he got into graffiti at
the age of 11, writing his name on any corner. He really got into it
more as he attended ART & DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL IN 1984.
Art
& Design was home to alot of famous writers especially TC5. T...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 19, 2009,
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I could say I started graffiti when I was about 5 years old. At that
point I lived in Mexico and had a patio with this huge blue wall that
looked boring. It would make me think of the sea. One day I decided to
pick up a few painting utensils as crayons, markers, spray paint and
drew a huge whale and fishes with random letters on the side! Haha, I
remember this because I got my ass beat and my dad made me scrub the
shit of for days even though it never came off! Haha! After that... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 19, 2009,
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Meres
was born in the South Bronx and raised in Queens, New York. Taking on
an interest in graffiti at the early age of 13, Meres developed his
craft starting with tags and throw-ups. In 1991, he started TD4 (The
Deadly 4mula) crew, which consisted of other artists with similar
interests. By the mid-90’s, Meres changed over to piecing. He painted
hundreds of pieces in all 5 boroughs as well as Florida, Connecticut,
Ohio, New Jersey, North Carolina and, Holland...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, August 27, 2009,
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Well what can I say? My name is BLEN 167, I’m originally from the
Bronx, NYC but I moved to PR in 1992/ 1993. Graffiti for me has been my
open door for many things such as my profession, tattoos. I’ve been
tattooing since 1999. I’m down with tons of crews so ill just mention
some for the record: BNA KD, OTB, KAOS inc, FUA, KGB, NARVALOW, DWA,
etc. I did my thing in NYC from 88 to 92, doing roof tops and some
walls but didn’t really do anything big until I moved to Puerto Rico. Th... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, August 15, 2009,
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Born and raised in the South Bronx and then Spanish Harlem
CREWS: 156 OTB TEK TCM Team TFO SK TDO HP Influenced by: FC,FBA,156,COD,TAT, Dero in particular but always kept it true with the NYC style of Lettering. While living in the South BX I was seeing the works done by locally by cats like Tyke, Sade, Dune, Reven, Bea, Kent III, Bash,Karl,Gizmo (R.I.P),Case2,Moet,Crack, Pre-Sweet TR nation, G-man PGA and the list could go on. ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, July 27, 2009,
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JESUS SAVES aka SPAIN was born in west islip long island in 1974. In
1977, his parents moved to Bushwick, Brooklyn, bringing 3 year old
SPAIN with them. He grew up on Knickerbocker ave., towards
Hancock street. By the age of 13, SPAIN started making friends in
school and hung out with some MSD peeps. Around that time he was
infleunced by graffiti artists such as JA, SMITH, SANE, SHOW, SEPT, JOZ, EASY, CHEO, SMG, JEL, WEB, ROD, AUDIE,NASH, SONI, SLICK and a couple of other U5 crews as well. B... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, July 25, 2009,
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Whats good world.This is big Joe GOAL straight out of Staten Island N.Y....Ive been in the graff game since 1990.As a kid from Staten Island it was a little harder to learn about the other boros because Staten Island is disconnected
from the other 4 boros. I remember as a young kid taking the Staten Island ferry
to the city to take photos and go to scrap yard to get caps and check out graff
mags and shit with my partner in crime SW. At the time I was writing E...
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