The technique according to Shandu (whose first inspiration in ’82/3 was a graphic, saying “Graffiti 1999” by Fab 5 Freddie of New York) was ‘still very bubble-ish’ at that early stage. The first battle at Belmont Tunnel, which was started as a yard by LABS, was between Shandu and Graff, AKA “Quickdraw” to create some buzz and see what happens,” according to Shandu. Crime continued: “In ’85 I put LABS on hold and started K2S (Kill To Succeed) with 5 people Crime, Prime, Cartoon, Defer and Risco.” They shared a number of members with K2S, and were active until ’89. The other important east side crew to start in ’84 was KGB (Kids Gone Bad). Bomb Squad (LABS) in late ’84, the first crew we knew of in L.A, and because we limited the size of our crew, others started to form their own crews.
After being individuals, we (Crime, along with Shandu, Primo Dee, Risco, Dave) formed L.A. Northeast writers such as Asylm even put an arrow pointing Northeast, so I should have caught that! Also I forgot to put Highland Park on the map: it would be right where it says “Northwest.”Īlthough a number of crews say they started in 1984 or even 1983, in talking to veteran writers, it seems that the crew to first have a real presence was LABS.Ĭrime/Rick: Radiotron by MacArthur park, was where we used to hang out, and that’s where many of us became friends. 34) I made a real screw-up: somehow I spaced out and I called the Northeast area “Northwest.” So to the Northeast writers (especially SHs), my appologies.
“Los Angeles Starts Up” Cut Text and Commentary This book goes deeply into Cholo culture. Some might refer to “piece-bombing” to be specific.Ī recommendation that should have been in the book, is “Wallbangin'” by Susan A. In talking to various veteran writers, the term might refer exclusively to throw-ups, throw ups and tags, or any illegal work. Also, as with many terms, the meaning of “bombing” is not agreed upon universally. I do recognize that some writers refer to wildstyle to mean a particular style of interlocking letters and use of arrow forms. On page 18 I present some basic definitions, and give a general definition of “wildstyle” as the creative abstraction and manipulation of letterforms. Along with that, unlike today, you didn’t dress like a tough guy unless you were a tough guy or were willing to suffer the consequences. At this time you didn’t do Cholo writing unless you were in a gang. There was Pjay, one of the best early writers in L.A., tall black dude, kind of black-consciousness proud guy, cool as hell, and then also in the same crew was Rival who looked like Eddie Van Halen with curly long hair, and Miner who was into punk. Our whole concern was just what’s this guy doing? And what’s that guy doing? And I heard someone did something over there, and someone would say Miner and someone would say “oh, I hear he’s this freaky dude with long black hair and long black nails!” And nobody was dressing in any special way at the time.
The anonymous source commenting about the beginnings of things (pg. ‘Early Influences’ Cut Text and Commentary
There had to be give and take with the publisher, especially under an extremely short deadline. Many times I “rescued” quotes and information from cuts and got it back into the text, but other commentary was cut without my noticing it until too late. Sometimes there just wasn’t enough room for everthing in a particular section. Sometimes the editors didn’t feel enough information was presented about a particular person to justify a quote. Material such as the following was cut from the original text for a number of reasons. Though these cuts from the text make most sense in the context of the original text and seem a bit of a hash here, they should still make sense enough on their own. This is additional material to the text of “Graffiti L.A.: street styles and art”
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