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Top 5 Graffiti Writers

undertheradarundertheradar 619 Posts
edited July 2006 in Strut Central
Phase 2 (Aerosol Artist)Seen UAKrush AWRCharlie DTKPrimo FYV (sentimental reasons, partner who I started with)
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  • izm707izm707 1,107 Posts
    Mode 2, West, TATS, TC5 and Cope 2 for the damage he did in N.Y.
  • thesolelifethesolelife 369 Posts
    LEE TF5
    Blade TC5
    Seen UA
    Skeme TNT
    Dondi

    Ramone from Beat Street
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Skeme
    Case
    Zephyr
    Mesh
    The cat who got up on the WELCOME BACK KOTTER Intro. Got up on the subway during the intro.
  • IronfeetIronfeet 516 Posts
    Charlie DTK
    Just 195
    Giant (Not Obey's)
    Bates
    Scram FYV FVK
    Jaler TV
  • navydadnavydad 30 Posts
    loomit
    daim
    scam (t.o)
  • bam219bam219 13 Posts
    Phase 2
    Tracy 168
    Ghost
    Stay High 149
    Swoon

    + Expel
  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    Estro (Early Philly King)
    Praez
    Cycle SPORTS
    Jase BT
    Cool Disco Dan

    I think that dude BATES has my favorite letter styles, but dude doesnt bomb... that aint really graffiti now is it?
  • dCastillodCastillo 1,963 Posts
    hmmm....no order...

    phase 2
    case 2
    cope 2
    mode 2
    can 2
    futura 2000
    cap
  • sticky_dojahsticky_dojah New York City. 2,138 Posts
    in no order


    Europe:

    mode 2

    Bando aka Philip Lehmann of Soulfirefame, THE letterking of the 80's in europe

    Sabe

    Chintz (from Dortmund, Germany, the European train king, painting trains constantly since 84)

    Delta from Amsterdam (THE only 3d writer that got balls, forget all the other crap)


    US:

    Dondi

    Ghost (RIS)

    REAS

    Lee

    Futura

    I know theres shitloads of others who might be more "influential", but these come to mind...
  • RAW_HAMBURGERRAW_HAMBURGER 1,438 Posts

    phase 2 ( the inventor of all styles we see to this day)
    lee
    dondi
    seen ua
    tkid


    its pretty bad that phase 2 is not in everybodys post !? c'mon yall....
  • undertheradarundertheradar 619 Posts

    2. (RIP) DREAM (TDK) only reason he not my #1 is cuz risk schooled me

    Word, forgot about Dream, an all time favorite too! I was watching the Video Graf 3 DVD, Dream was schooling folks!

    What the fuck ever happened to Gnome?
  • TheeeCasualMaleTheeeCasualMale 2,564 Posts
    not necessarily on some GOAT type shit, but here are 5 i'm feelin...

    Rime
    Revok
    Ewok (HM)
    Bates
    Crazy Dentist
  • dCastillodCastillo 1,963 Posts




    that's raw.

    Mike said Revok. He's in my list for multi city burners. And when I think Revok I think Sever.

    Someone said Vulcan. Right on.

    ASC - where are they now?
    Solo
    Casper
    Dzine
    Disrok

    all had some ill styles. always trying something different.
  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    Ages is out your way right? that dude was really killing Chi for a while.
  • DUNE493DUNE493 223 Posts
    IZ THE WIZ,JON 156,P JAY,JA ONE,OE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc6NokfzglQ&search=DONDI
  • silvertonesilvertone 765 Posts
    Streakers:
    Collosus of Roads.
    Herbie.
    Other &b Labrona
    Broke.
    Tonto & Thesis.

    Fright Writers (for style I like, not currently active).
    Pener.
    HM Crew.
    Kwest. (or BA & BSM crews.)
    Biter (and all them Autorack crusher crews in LA to the Bay).

    Handstyle:
    FOntski.
  • robstafarirobstafari 32 Posts


    i have that same piece in my photo album too. from the HB legal wall around 92.

    random 5:

    saber AWR
    pretty much all the old NASA crew
    JE
    Twist
    and currently i'm digging Nesta in the east bay. especially that truck you see after going over the bridge..
  • robstafarirobstafari 32 Posts
    this is the vob stuff i got. cheers.



    alot of the other shots i have from there have wack 594K or dtd tags over the pieces. the same exact thing happened to the legal walls at UCSB.
  • djsheepdjsheep 3,620 Posts
    Phase 2
    Blade
    Dondi
    Seen
    T-Kid
  • G_BalliandoG_Balliando 3,916 Posts
    Rime is outta Jersey I believe (maybe the bricks?). Easily one of the best writers currently.

    current top five:

    Rime
    Dr. Sex
    Saber
    Revok
    Cope2

    top five passed away:

    Dondi (RIP)
    Ayer (RIP)
    Nace (RIP)
    Tie (RIP)
    Dream (RIP)


    Silvertone: cosign on Kwest, his trains are rediculous. wild style whole cars and shit like that. nice.
  • TheeeCasualMaleTheeeCasualMale 2,564 Posts
    what Rime you talking about LA Rime?

    yup

  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
  • vajdaijvajdaij 447 Posts
    no love for Cap?
    I loved all the interviews on the 2nd disc of Style Wars, good to see all these older cats still getting up.

    how about Top 5 Boston Writers:

    -the folks who did the jazz mural on terrace st
    -KESH
    -HECTOR
    -JIVE
    -AVES

    < blogpimp >
    I've got a blog of Boston graffiti flicks right here: http://617-472-33484.blogspot.com/
    < /blogpimp >
  • waximilienwaximilien 352 Posts
    in no order
    Bando aka Philip Lehmann of Soulfirefame, THE letterking of the 80's in europe

    fuck - is that common knowledge? i never knew that, dayum. ill

    mode 2
    &
    doze
    mainly

    i followed mainly uk artists like ikonoklasts:
    roughe360
    juice126
    onemor
    req-one
    etc.

    props to the earlier mentions of daim and loomit. KILLIN IT. seak too

    and hella crazy large shouts to my mellow SMAZEoner
  • RAW_HAMBURGERRAW_HAMBURGER 1,438 Posts
    no love for Cap?
    I loved all the interviews on the 2nd disc of Style Wars, good to see all these older cats still getting up.

    how about Top 5 Boston Writers:

    -the folks who did the jazz mural on terrace st
    -KESH
    -HECTOR
    -JIVE
    -AVES

    < blogpimp >
    I've got a blog of Boston graffiti flicks right here: http://617-472-33484.blogspot.com/
    < /blogpimp >

    hell no, you need to check your boston history.
    these are new jacks who get up in 1 section of town

    click quite possibly the best writer ever to come out of boston
    deme the cat that was part of the jazz mural
    beyond
    kem
    mk

    i could go on...
  • G_BalliandoG_Balliando 3,916 Posts
    what Rime you talking about LA Rime?

    yup


    he's not from LA.
  • ArtifactorArtifactor 887 Posts
    I don't even know how to pick 5 from so many.

    West Coast Writers:

    Skill UTI
    Gin GAW
    Chaka IFK
    Oiler IFK
    Wisk
    Dream TDK
    125 C.U.L.T

    Many more, I have always been more into bombers than piecers but no hate for piecing.

    East Coast Writers:

    Seen UA
    Skeme TNT
    T-Kid
    Duster
    Blade
    Phase 2
    Cope 2

    Can't remember too much East Coast at the moment.
  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    what Rime you talking about LA Rime?

    yup


    he's not from LA.

    Rime MSK is also Rime KCW. He's from New Jersey.
  • catchdubscatchdubs 492 Posts
    rime has so many good pieces throughout newark and north jersey - he had this crazy piece on the highway leading up to holland tunnel that just got painted over a month or two ago. i was so bummed.
  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    Also, this is a good thread. I'm not going to put my "top" writers up here because there's too many good/LEGENDARY writers to limit it to a top five. Saying "Top 5 Graffiti Writers" is akin to saying "Top 5 Musicians" and that's just much broad too broad parameters. Also, I don't have time to narrow it down to era and region, so I'm just going to name some names (no snitching) of mostly Philly dudes who made a mark on me.

    Late seventies/early eighties - the era that I first started getting interested in writing:
    Clyde
    Estro
    Pez
    E-Z
    Mr. Blint
    Deadhead
    Credit
    Jay-Cee
    Razz
    Japan
    Kozmo
    Pap & Brez (my local neighborhood kings)


    Mid to late eighties - the era in which I first actually started to get up... this is tougher than I thought, there's so many, so I'll just name a few:
    Cape
    Rasan
    Kadism
    Erx (my first "old head" who took me under his wing.)
    Denske (who busted out a little later but changed the game.)

    My old crew:
    Espo
    Design 29
    Meez

    My current crew:
    Cense
    Kemos
    Enem
    Dasar
    June
    Cread
    Nope
    Speed

    Out of towners:
    Skeme
    Seen
    Duster
    Zephyr
    Risk
    Slick
    Revok
    Saber
    Dream
    Reas
    Ghost
    JA
    Sace

    All kings in their own right. Man, all this talk makes me want to go bombing. That's dangerous.
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