UNDERGROUND
RAP MUSIC & GRAFFITI
STOMP AND CRUSH
IS RAP AND GRAFF
IT'S HIP HOP
It all really is just that simple.
If I had to elaborate, though, I'd also say it's rythm and poetry.
It's rap music.
It's New York City. It's Brooklyn.
It's boogie down. Get fresh. Stay fly.It's keeping it funky. It's kicking it live.
It's the Stomp and Crush brand of hip hop music. It's dope.
It's vandalism. Mad paint. Ill colors.
ITZ GRAFFITI
If you're a graff head from NYC, you might want to have a look at The Great Gallery of Graffiti, a collection of grafflix (photos of graffiti) taken in NYC and beyond. You might want to check it out even if you're not a graff head from NYC.
Fresh pieces and burners, paint tags, marker tags, dirt tags - - straight street bombing from some of the illest writers and graff legends in the history of the game. Mind you, I said some, not all.
Most of the graff writers who influenced me were from around my way, my local scene. Around the way crews. I started writing in 1991. I was 13. Back then, I would take a walk up and down 5th avenue in Brooklyn everyday after school. I was on my way home from one of these trips one afternoon when up on a wall I saw the tag of a kid who was in my class. I thought to myself, "Oh snap! I know that dude!" At that point I decided that I wanted people to see me up and be like, "Oh snap! I know that dude!" So I started writing graffiti.
I very clearly recall looking at graff as a small child in the 80s. Bombed trains and the like. Amazingly brilliant colors. Fresh illustrations and drawings. Back then, though, graffiti was like a foreign language to me. Exept for straight letter pieces and throw ups, I couldn't read a word of graffiti. I started learning, though, when I was 13.
Long story short, I publish this graffiti gallery because when I first made my own personal discovery of graffiti image galleries online, I felt that a lot of graffiti writers who deserved at least some recognition were getting what seemed to me like little to no shine at all. So I went out and started snapping flicks of any graffiti still up from the era of my awakening and coming up and also of particular interest to me. I wish I would have had a camera or even thought to start taking flicks of graffiti back when I was 13.
The overall majority of pics featured in the gallery were taken by Big Fucking Stoak Burnem, others were submitted by friends, and the rest were found on various sites on the world wide web. Much props for sharing, everyone!
- Stoak Burns