Top 5 Graffiti Writers
undertheradar
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Phase 2 (Aerosol Artist)Seen UAKrush AWRCharlie DTKPrimo FYV (sentimental reasons, partner who I started with)
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Blade TC5
Seen UA
Skeme TNT
Dondi
Ramone from Beat Street
Case
Zephyr
Mesh
The cat who got up on the WELCOME BACK KOTTER Intro. Got up on the subway during the intro.
Just 195
Giant (Not Obey's)
Bates
Scram FYV FVK
Jaler TV
daim
scam (t.o)
Tracy 168
Ghost
Stay High 149
Swoon
+ Expel
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?
phase 2
case 2
cope 2
mode 2
can 2
futura 2000
cap
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...
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....
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?
Rime
Revok
Ewok (HM)
Bates
Crazy Dentist
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.
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.
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..
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.
Blade
Dondi
Seen
T-Kid
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.
yup
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 >
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
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...
he's not from LA.
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.
Rime MSK is also Rime KCW. He's from New Jersey.
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.