Graffiti High Rise - (Shots Fired) At Graffiti Artists?

Published 2024-02-16
In LA graffiti artists have been tagging, and rocking pieces on a few unfinished high-rises and today we get a first hand account from one of those graffiti artists. Dark recorded a youtube video and was kind enough to provide me with some photos of the work his crew did. Ontop of dark and his friend being at the buildings, countless graffiti artists have entered the buildings and painted the inside and outside of these skyscrapers with beautiful graffiti that can be seen from afar. The Grammy Awards are set to take place near these towers, and officials stated while they'd like to have the graffiti cleared before then, it simply isn't possible.

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All Comments (21)
  • @darkfoot
    Hey thx for sharing my vid 🙏💯. Also abt the gun shots, no one was hurt thankfully.
  • @shillionaire
    It's always a good time to stop the violence in HipHop.
  • @yourmother55569
    underrated opinion i think beef should be kept on the wall…. thanks for sharing that i agree brother. great video
  • @marioglez1553
    I know my boy from the thumbnail Active man 💪🏼
  • The spot is Hot 🔥 there's no point at this time to hit it but if you get it that would be a miracle.. but if you do again Mad Rep!
  • @sanpedroez3367
    Be very careful painting in L.A if you aren't from here. L.A has a ton of active neighborhoods that don't take kindly to people catching spots, L.A.P.D is no joke and we have always had tag banger culture.
  • @osty2k02
    can you consider making a very limited run of a physical copy of your book?
  • To any of you new writers I recommend you watch more of this guy's videos before hitting walls and being a toy
  • @thisisemji
    e-book content is bomb if you really want to learn the art of graffiti.
  • @Pugetwitch
    4:30 this is the most important part of the video because people think graffiti is some type of stand alone art movement that arose out of "hiphop" (another subculture the masses tend to not overstand) but it's actually heavily based within gang shit. At least where I'm from - and I'm a white chick from seattle! Not a likely origin for such things, but here we are. I can't speak on the scene in KC or New Orleans, but throughout the West coast, the origins of graffiti are closely tied to gangs and their communications. i was banging by age 13. Most people (normies, lol) don't think that graffiti is that serious, but the whole reason that we started writing graffiti was to represent our hood. That led to us kids and the OGs among us representing our crew, aka our gang. We were down there on the blocks hustling everyday, robbing people, boosting, pushing d, doing the most to come up back in the day. Safe to say the original Gs of the crew grew past that, but the youngsters are still out there putting footwork and doing dirt trying to prove themselves and make a name for themselves in the streets. I cannot tell you how many people I know from the scene who have died from overdoses or else getting killed in the streets one way or another. RIP especially to my little brothers Take and Kerse. Competence on the wall is irrelevant to me. As somebody who is disabled (autistic with chronic nerve pain) and don't give two shits really about a handstyle, I don't care if somebody burns me. I'm 43 years old. But if somebody want to go over me they can still get checked face-to-face, if not hand to hand by me. Just because somebody might be Doper than me or have better abilities with a can then I do does it mean that they get more respect than me and it doesn't mean that they're going to be able to disrespect me in any shape form or fashion. If anything, I might give em a high five and say that's dope. The career mentorship and personal insight, along with knowledge and wisdom that I can provide for these kids is worth more than any type of handstyles that I can pass down. Artistic skill doesn't impress me, artistic expression, general passion, and dedication to culture (via culture jamming) impresses me. I'd rather put a kid into the crew who's tag their name a thousand times within a four block radius than a kid who's spent hours working on a single piece. What's that going to do for promotion? Do you think that more people are going to remember the name of the individual who created that one piece, then those who'd see that same name posted a thousand times on their way to work? That being said, just because some one is better than me with a can doesn't mean that I'm going to let them go over me and win some sort of ego trip.
  • @Cre8iveMud
    When I first started tagging. I remember a dog got loose from it's yard. It found me two blocks away doing a throw up. It was a pomeranian, but that dog set up such a fuss , that my lookout, grabbed the dog . While I finished and we both booked it to my lookout's apartment. Side note: we returned the dog to the owner the next day. Eventually that dog gave up on its beef with me. But, yeah graff beefs can escalate fast, be careful, never go over or cross out gang graff and watch your six out there.
  • @ziggyciggs5862
    I wonder hoe many taxayer dollars are bring spent on protecting thia abandoned building. Helicopter fuel is very expensive ive heard. Land of the free