Hip hop songs about graffiti?
HAZE1
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What are a few hip hop joints about graffiti? Im doing a write up on my blog http://thelowendtheory.blogspot.com and only have like 4 tracks so far and want to get a few more up there. Thanks in advance.
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yeah, it's the theme to a pretty bad movie, but the lyrics have some of the fullest graf imagery I remember from back in the day:
Well A Picture Can Express A Thousand Words And Describe All the Beauty of Life you Give
And if The Whole World was Yours To Do over I know You'd Paint A Better Place To live
Where the Colors would Swirl and the Boys and Girls Can grow in Peace and Harmony
And where Murals Stand on walls so Grand As far as the Eye Are Able to see
I never Knew Art 'Til I Saw Your Face And There'll never be one to take your place
Cause Each Time you Touch The Spay paint Can Michelangleo's Soul Control's your Hand
Then Serenades of Blue and Red and the Beauty of the Rainbow Fills Your Head
Crescendo Colors Play in tune Man Why O'why'd You Have To Die so Soon
Ashes to Ashes and Dust To Dust Where The Good Die Young is All Thy Must
Cause As Life must Live Death Must Die and the Tears shall fall from the Livin' Eye
I'm sittin' in the classroom learnin' the rules and it say you can't do Graffiti in School
They can't be Wrong in the Hollowed Hall so my Notebook turned into a big Wall
The heart of A lion and The Courage of Three and the mind of a man mush wiser than Me
And The soul of a brother who won't come Back, Who Died in My Arms on the railroad Tracks
Still Life Urban Masterpiece, your Trademark was written on Trains and Walls
A Million Dollar gift only god Relief (?) And yet you got Killed for nothin' at All
So After this there'll be No More Hard Time, No more bad time and no more pain
No more chump change, none of that Bull, just Movies, Museums, and The Hall of Fame
(excuse the sketchy lyrics, I copied n pasted cause I couldn't remember all that ish top of the head style!)
I think that is "End To End Burners"
Also, DJ Phantom out of Europe did a really dope Graf track, nice beat and lots of vocal snippets a la Style Wars dropped in there. It's on one of his break records.
Also a lot of Big Jus aka Lune TNS: Some joints off of Funcrusher but also off of his solo album Balck Mamba Serums.
The whole album is dedicated to graf.
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thanks again.
Hey, you should check out these clips from an album I was involved with by my old collective, Stylus Force. It's called "Tales From The Rails". It's instrumental hiphop+whateverrocks sprinkled with exclusive soundbites. We actually made a scratch tool from the interviews and sound fx we gathered, and used it to make the final record. It's a graffiti koncept album and it's meant to be a tribute to the artform. This is supposed to be music 2 write 2.
Check out some mp3s here:
DJ Blaze ??? "Upwrite"
The Phobos Peepl (that's me) ??? "Tunnel Vision"
Pelham 123 ??? "Cyborg Rider"
Tales From The Rails Medley
We also released an EP with music by DJ Blaze for a graff video by the danish writer crew MOA called Monsters Of Art. Don't have any links ready for that, though.
While we're at the shameless self-promoting, here's two tracks that we did for a later 7"-release (not graffitti-related):
DJ Blaze ??? "Boogie Children"
The Phobos Peepl ??? "Black-Out"
some files on their way to you.
Also, there is this track from the '90s with the chorus:
"I'd rather be a graffer than a player"...."If you back against the wall, turn around and write on it" or something like that, but I forgot the name of the song.
And off course: Rakim - just writing my name in graffiti on the wall