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Rammellzee, Graffiti Artist, Dies at 49

Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010, In : RIP 

Rammellzee, an early graffiti writer, hip-hop pioneer and performance artist whose style influenced the Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill, died Sunday in Far Rockaway, Queens, where he was raised. He lived in Battery Park City in Manhattan.

He was 49 and died after a long illness, said his wife, Carmela Zagari Rammellzee.

He became known in graffiti circles in the late 1970s and early 1980s for hitting the A train and other subway lines around Queens with his spiky-lettered work. He ap...


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Two youths face murder charges in Graffiti Artist death

Posted by Tag One on Monday, May 3, 2010, In : RIP 
Montreal graffiti artist Brian 
Kachur's body was pulled from the St. Lawrence River on Nov. 15, 2009.
 
 

Montreal graffiti artist Brian Kachur's body was pulled from the St. Lawrence River on Nov. 15, 2009.

Photograph by: Courtesy of the Kachur family, The Gazette

MONTREAL – Two teenage males – aged 15 and 16 – appeared in Youth Court Tuesday afternoon to face one charge each of second-degree murder in the violent death last fall of graffiti vandal Brian Kachur.

Kachur’s body was discovered floating several metres off the shore in the St. Lawrence River, by the city...


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A proclamation marks 10 years since the death of Mike 'The Dream' Francisco

Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 22, 2010, In : RIP 

Mike "The Dream" Francisco was an Oakland graffiti artist who was shot and killed 10 years ago...

Marty Aranaydo said the rage he felt over the murder of his friend and fellow street graffiti artist Mike "Dream" Francisco was almost overwhelming.

Francisco was killed 10 years ago today during a West Oakland robbery. He was 30 at the time and left behind a 1-year-old son.

But in the end, Aranaydo's rage didn't win.

"I had this crazy idea to memorialize the 10...


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