![]() Show flyer, 1988 DJ Boddhisatva piece (year unknown)ĭRUMS piece (year unknown) Djinji hanging (literally) in front of his DRUMS piece (year unknown) Show flyer, 1987 Bruce "JUICE" Boyd (Pagan Babies)Ī native of Philadelphia, Boyd was in an Asbury Park breakdance crew in the mid-'80s and later went on to play drums in the Pagan Babies. Brown is currently down with the X-Men crew. In the '90s he helped engineered some classic hip-hop records as well as releasing his own house music and rap recordings. In 1987 he started up Absolution with another writer. Excel wild style piece (year unknown) Shelter wild style piece (year unknown) Beyond wild style piece (year unknown) Spirit wild style piece (year unknown) Djinji "DRUMS" or "PHOE" Brown (Absolution)īrown grew up in the Bronx as a B-boy doing graffiti and breakdancing. In the early '90s, he did some amazing wild style pieces of different bands, as well as drawing logos/t-shirts for Powerhouse, Second Coming, and Forced Life. He sang for straight edge band Breakaway and early Gilman St. Joey grew up in the Bay Area and was down with San Francisco crews POE (Power of Expression) and VOB ( Visions of Brotherhood). Brotherhood piece, 1989 Supertouch sticker, 1988 Breakdown sticker, 1988 New Breed album cover done as an homage to the film Wild Style, 1989 Joey "ZEROX" or "RAYGE" Vela (Breakaway, Rabid Lassie) He went on to sing for Burn and Orange 9mm during the '90s. Chaka pretty much quit writing by 1990, but not before doing some classic band logos and other iconic music-related images. My old friend Chaka started writing while growing up in Queens, NY during the early '80s and was down with the SPORTS crew, whom you can read more about down below. Excel, 2014 Excel black book piece, 1987 Mixtape cover, 2013 LA freeway piece, 1985 Chaka "EXPO" Malik (Burn, Orange 9mm) His Southern California gang styled lettering played a big part in complementing their vicious hardcore and heavy metal hybrid, connecting the dots between various subcultures with a common reference point. ![]() ![]() He joined them on bass in 1985 and came up with their new name: Excel. Ross was a member of LA's KSN (Kings Stop at Nothing) crew and befriended local band Chaotic Noise. Late '70s piece Early '80s piece Recent black book work Shaun "DOOM BC" Ross (Excel, Hirax) Jayson went on to play on the seminal Cro-Mags Age of Quarrel album, as well as the Bad Brains, The Icemen, Urban Blight, Irate, and others, forever cementing his place as the original hardcore B-boy. He played drums in 1982 in an all graffiti writers hardcore band called Frontline that also included included ME 62 and GEE BEE. Having bombed the trains in the late '70s as a member of the legendary RTW (Rolling Thunder Writers) crew, no one exemplifies the graffiti and hardcore connection quite like Mackie. I would love to showcase more in the future, but for now let's check out the work of some that are equally adept at wielding a spray can as they are at busting out hardcore jams. I know that there are tons more that should be included here no one was left out on purpose. Whether its pieces/flyers/band logos/record covers, the only criteria to be included here was that it had to be done by writers that played in bands. SEE ALSO: Classic ABC No Rio Flyers From Artist Jon Reed In this piece, I've chosen to spotlight some old friends and people whose work I admire. Nothing exemplifies this like the skilled writers that took turns bombing the subways and streets one day, and then picked up musical instruments the next. ![]() It wasn't until the '80s when graffiti and hardcore, two distinct but not mutually exclusive subcultures, started to overlap and feed off one another. Mackie (Cro-Mags, Bad Brains), NYC, late '70sįamous graffiti writers have been name-checking their favorite heavy metal and hard rock bands in their work since the vibrant urban art movement's earliest days. ![]()
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