So 7seas is a Vallejo native. He has a gL style. gL has roots in the Bay Area. Tach and Rsen started the crew in the Bay Area in 1992. The bay and LA connection. Tach from Sf Rsen from LA. Rsen mentored NatrL Dest & Tyboe! Giving all the writers from Vallejo a LA inspiration. You should do a video on Rsen. He was the first to paint multiple train yards in the bay. Rsen started LSD in LA and GL in the Bay Area. GL one of the best crews to come out the Bay Area.
Interesting take on this topic, thanks. SF was blowing up in the 90’s in part because there was a market for graff artists to get into galleries. There was a lot of creativity, and as you said people visited SF just to get up. Some crews are more into beef than others, it’s almost like it’s part of the sport. Other crews were collaborative. I always enjoyed when people came to visit, as long as they respected the rules. Crews would often collab, because we liked sharing techniques and skills. It was about advancing the form and putting SF on the map. It was a great time to be alive. ✌🏼
I was fired up for this and the whole intro turned me off..."for the whole culture overall this is some really important stuff" BUT let me give you a censored version for fear of speaking the truth.....cmon big dawg 🤦♂
I don't think I've ever seen that tribute wall to TIE. Thanks for another dope video. Sometimes it's tough to have to choose what can and cannot be shared. Respect gets Respect. Big ups!
LA is spread out but its main disadvantage is the city being car centric. Public transportation is also less frequent compared to SF so getting up in LA can be a challenge.
Dope video. Glad you hit this subject. My favorite piece ever was Dream's Best Of Both Worlds. United styles. LA to the Bay connections go deep. It always seemed like a creative rivalry you have with a friend.
All I gotta say Dregs is I respect the hell outta you homie and any cat who was putting it up for Frisco, SALUTE. This video has valuable information, I appreciate you sharing the knowledge. Remain solid my brother. Frisco stand up.
When I saw picebypeice that shit made me bomb every night I came up on that one and infamy at a record shop n couldn’t stop tagging .. stay up dregs , it’s dope to see tons of channels showing graffiti stories and interviews now
Yeah sounds just like us LA writers,.go somewhere and fuck shit up and then start wanting to take ownership of it and start dissing and stepping on toes and like you said it's that LA gang culture influence that gives us that mentality where it gets ruthless
Good story man, I have always had a love for graffiti and the entire culture/history that surrounds it. I just wish I was better when I tried to do it haha.
Watching LA and SF gaff docs it seemed like Norcal took the graff culture seriously and kept it as traditional as possible compared to LA and socal cuz its tru that graff is like a gang mentality down here like most krews down here became hoods while other struggle to prosper cuz they're getting targeted by other krews and hood. And hoods down here have hella influence on the graff scene. No offence but most vatos from up north dont be gettin up if they do its dime a dozen most of them are usually just about their bizz. But down here most vatos started off as taggers or feel so proud of their hoods that they learn to get up. It all comes with problems and ik cuz im i writer and trying to keep it all about graff down here is almost impossible.
I can understand that from NorCals perspective, even though the 3 dots for the most part means "MI Vida Loca" to us and isn't necessarily a gang/varrio thing to us, although many people from a hood here does have it tatted, it's not restricted to only gangmembers as some others tatts are...it's always been just a Raza culture thing here. I say that to say it's not a tattoo or symbol that means "southerner" or "sureno",because you can get it inked etc n not be gangster like that on that aspect...just as long as the meaning is basically true to that individual life, nobody is gonna trip or hit you up in socal because of it like other tattoos do cause lol ...but since it just so happens to 3 dots though, I can see how Northerns perceive it a different way because of that, but the there being 3 dots is just a coincidence in that regard & isn't by design to reflect it. So now to finally get to your comment on how some of the La writers were hitting it up alongside there ups, I'm sure at the the time in those early days in Sf they prob just hit it up without even truly thinking about it just because it's such an ingrained part of our culture over here as Chicanos . And the way dregs tell the story was pretty on spot on how the LA Graffiti Writers were more aggressive in the aspect where it kind of seems like it's like gang mentality, because being from here and growing up around the hood I'm going to other places in the country with other Graffiti Writers I do know Los Angeles is definitely different on that aspect on terms of graffiti as opposed to any other place I've ever witnessed in America. And it's not really to want to be a gangster pushing the certain size and whatnot issue, it's just the way we learn how carry ourselves in certain situations because there are so many different hoods what foos are straight gangbanging on on you hitting you upto to see if you bang, and if you don't but you're all scared showing weakness ... you're ded more likely to get punked & straight jacked for your shit and if your not scared but are acting a Lil too abrasively, coming at dude that seems sideways where your not showing a descent amount of respect....then one can possibly straight get fucked up on the spot let alone a possibility of getting stabbed or shot......& Like it or not, that's just the way it is here. It does affect everything in one form or another whether you're involved or not, it definitely has an impact on the culture lEspecially back in the early nineties when them cats were getting down most hoods here in LA did not like tigers and if you were caught slipping you're likely to get Stomp the f*** out if not killed, start getting blasted right where your painting at all because you're in somebody's neighborhood, final a lot of them cats from that area really conducted the crew and their name on a much more serious aspect Beyond painting itself . It's a little different here now on that aspect just cuz graffitis a lot more known an accepted so Taggers don't have to worry about the green light from the hoods like that anymore LOL not to mention that there was a number of tagging crews from the early 90s that have now straight up officially became a Varrio, & even some serious Graff writers that are also from a some very old well known gangs too. ...But as a Chicano that grew up in the LA area around many hardcore cholos & ones from different neighborhoods that are even I different counties , when it come to the 3 dots, it just simply means " MI Vida Loca" only & is not meant to mean or claim on is a southsider from the hood., here at least...unfortunately cant help how others may perceive other tribes gestures as well as mannerisms since it's a slightly foreign culture that has different customs than one's own.
having grown up in both regions, and also having spent much time in them as an adult, I always noticed that there are many cultural differences between the two that most won’t understand. I appreciate having been around a lot of different areas in the Golden State for that reason. It gave me a good overall perspective of California as a whole, and furthermore, one may observe how many folks don’t understand all the differences, and just assume that other parts of the state are identical.
Please do a video explaining exactly what you mean when you say "the culture" I am 4th gen Californian and I hear people use this a lot and they lived here 11 months... It drives me nuts. Would be doing ME a huge service as you seem to be good at the "scholar" lane. I think it'll be a great video and give us a better insight. I am a 50 yr old and think its gotten realllll muddy...
No one should be serious about graffiti. At least to me the main thing was about having fun and expressing yourself. I understand why writers act so serious but wish that energy could be channeled into elevating the art form.
Clowns that have pieces still running from 2 decades ago that no one touches. Clowns that turned their graff into million dollar businesses. Clowns that have been arrested, stabbed, injured , shot at for graffiti and have gotten up globally.
@Aaron Kamakaze Their work and achievements have standing, yes, no one is denying that. But some of their actions an attitude's are very circus tent. Retna was all over social media years ago burning money piles, punching people, and being a hollywood douche. Revok out here selling spiralgraphs now, while shilling for war and other leftist trash talking points, Ewok the same, Gkae still a got the mindset of a child fighting with other writters online about 25+ year old drama while larping like he's a cholo when he's a tiny little white dude.
So 7seas is a Vallejo native. He has a gL style. gL has roots in the Bay Area. Tach and Rsen started the crew in the Bay Area in 1992. The bay and LA connection. Tach from Sf Rsen from LA. Rsen mentored NatrL Dest & Tyboe! Giving all the writers from Vallejo a LA inspiration.
You should do a video on Rsen. He was the first to paint multiple train yards in the bay. Rsen started LSD in LA and GL in the Bay Area.
GL one of the best crews to come out the Bay Area.
It don’t matter to me I’m in the LA graffiti scene and I hope all the SF writers get up and prosper in all aspects of life.
The MSK AWR Styles go hard. Thank you for sharing these anecdotes
BRO ITS REALLY HARD STYLE BRO NICE
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Interesting take on this topic, thanks. SF was blowing up in the 90’s in part because there was a market for graff artists to get into galleries. There was a lot of creativity, and as you said people visited SF just to get up. Some crews are more into beef than others, it’s almost like it’s part of the sport. Other crews were collaborative. I always enjoyed when people came to visit, as long as they respected the rules. Crews would often collab, because we liked sharing techniques and skills. It was about advancing the form and putting SF on the map. It was a great time to be alive. ✌🏼
I was fired up for this and the whole intro turned me off..."for the whole culture overall this is some really important stuff" BUT let me give you a censored version for fear of speaking the truth.....cmon big dawg 🤦♂
lol
I don't think I've ever seen that tribute wall to TIE.
Thanks for another dope video.
Sometimes it's tough to have to choose what can and cannot be shared.
Respect gets Respect.
Big ups!
This was awesome! ICP the homies! Spent a day on 16th mission when Keb/Joker/Sketch/Twick and his son and the homie PenGo
LA is spread out but its main disadvantage is the city being car centric.
Public transportation is also less frequent compared to SF so getting up in LA can be a challenge.
Frisco stories are the best man. I miss the old days in the SUCKA FREE
Dope video. Glad you hit this subject.
My favorite piece ever was Dream's Best Of Both Worlds. United styles.
LA to the Bay connections go deep. It always seemed like a creative rivalry you have with a friend.
All I gotta say Dregs is I respect the hell outta you homie and any cat who was putting it up for Frisco, SALUTE. This video has valuable information, I appreciate you sharing the knowledge. Remain solid my brother. Frisco stand up.
When I saw picebypeice that shit made me bomb every night I came up on that one and infamy at a record shop n couldn’t stop tagging .. stay up dregs , it’s dope to see tons of channels showing graffiti stories and interviews now
Thanks for your work! 🤜🤛 your videos are fascinating, thanks for the culture. From Europe
LETS GOOOO!!! Been waiting for this one!!
I heard stories of awr msk lts and the yr crew going to sanfrancisco and climbing bridges and all kinds off roof tops and heavens
I grew up with the DRUNK one one,who later became PYSA LTS crew98
Yeah sounds just like us LA writers,.go somewhere and fuck shit up and then start wanting to take ownership of it and start dissing and stepping on toes and like you said it's that LA gang culture influence that gives us that mentality where it gets ruthless
Whatever happened to BUTER from ICP?
Icp was the fukn shit back in the day
When I was a kid prob 2008 ish I remember seeing the saber rollers in sf. It confused me haha how did they get up there.
Good story man, I have always had a love for graffiti and the entire culture/history that surrounds it. I just wish I was better when I tried to do it haha.
Watching LA and SF gaff docs it seemed like Norcal took the graff culture seriously and kept it as traditional as possible compared to LA and socal cuz its tru that graff is like a gang mentality down here like most krews down here became hoods while other struggle to prosper cuz they're getting targeted by other krews and hood. And hoods down here have hella influence on the graff scene. No offence but most vatos from up north dont be gettin up if they do its dime a dozen most of them are usually just about their bizz. But down here most vatos started off as taggers or feel so proud of their hoods that they learn to get up. It all comes with problems and ik cuz im i writer and trying to keep it all about graff down here is almost impossible.
but bay area is more like nyc we dont bang and that shit is wack to us
I felt very disrespected along with other writers that were killing shit. When them out of Towner's started hitting up that 3 dot bullshit
Why don’t you guys like 3 dots?
SKEW
It was the 3 Dots they wrote after they're Graff that was initially an issue. But it turns out th3y left a legacy.
I can understand that from NorCals perspective, even though the 3 dots for the most part means "MI Vida Loca" to us and isn't necessarily a gang/varrio thing to us, although many people from a hood here does have it tatted, it's not restricted to only gangmembers as some others tatts are...it's always been just a Raza culture thing here. I say that to say it's not a tattoo or symbol that means "southerner" or "sureno",because you can get it inked etc n not be gangster like that on that aspect...just as long as the meaning is basically true to that individual life, nobody is gonna trip or hit you up in socal because of it like other tattoos do cause lol ...but since it just so happens to 3 dots though, I can see how Northerns perceive it a different way because of that, but the there being 3 dots is just a coincidence in that regard & isn't by design to reflect it.
So now to finally get to your comment on how some of the La writers were hitting it up alongside there ups, I'm sure at the the time in those early days in Sf they prob just hit it up without even truly thinking about it just because it's such an ingrained part of our culture over here as Chicanos . And the way dregs tell the story was pretty on spot on how the LA Graffiti Writers were more aggressive in the aspect where it kind of seems like it's like gang mentality, because being from here and growing up around the hood I'm going to other places in the country with other Graffiti Writers I do know Los Angeles is definitely different on that aspect on terms of graffiti as opposed to any other place I've ever witnessed in America. And it's not really to want to be a gangster pushing the certain size and whatnot issue, it's just the way we learn how carry ourselves in certain situations because there are so many different hoods what foos are straight gangbanging on on you hitting you upto to see if you bang, and if you don't but you're all scared showing weakness ... you're ded more likely to get punked & straight jacked for your shit and if your not scared but are acting a Lil too abrasively, coming at dude that seems sideways where your not showing a descent amount of respect....then one can possibly straight get fucked up on the spot let alone a possibility of getting stabbed or shot......& Like it or not, that's just the way it is here. It does affect everything in one form or another whether you're involved or not, it definitely has an impact on the culture lEspecially back in the early nineties when them cats were getting down most hoods here in LA did not like tigers and if you were caught slipping you're likely to get Stomp the f*** out if not killed, start getting blasted right where your painting at all because you're in somebody's neighborhood, final a lot of them cats from that area really conducted the crew and their name on a much more serious aspect Beyond painting itself . It's a little different here now on that aspect just cuz graffitis a lot more known an accepted so Taggers don't have to worry about the green light from the hoods like that anymore LOL not to mention that there was a number of tagging crews from the early 90s that have now straight up officially became a Varrio, & even some serious Graff writers that are also from a some very old well known gangs too. ...But as a Chicano that grew up in the LA area around many hardcore cholos & ones from different neighborhoods that are even I different counties , when it come to the 3 dots, it just simply means " MI Vida Loca" only & is not meant to mean or claim on is a southsider from the hood., here at least...unfortunately cant help how others may perceive other tribes gestures as well as mannerisms since it's a slightly foreign culture that has different customs than one's own.
Yes, I'm Irish and my dad has 3 dots. I understand.
having grown up in both regions, and also having spent much time in them as an adult, I always noticed that there are many cultural differences between the two that most won’t understand. I appreciate having been around a lot of different areas in the Golden State for that reason. It gave me a good overall perspective of California as a whole, and furthermore, one may observe how many folks don’t understand all the differences, and just assume that other parts of the state are identical.
Yo my Man U got to do one on Merx one his a town and dro legend one love rip Merx mucho respect Dboy
in socal when krews go at it. WHo gets up more. gets up more bigger . gets up more in sicker spots etc...
Please do a video explaining exactly what you mean when you say "the culture" I am 4th gen Californian and I hear people use this a lot and they lived here 11 months... It drives me nuts. Would be doing ME a huge service as you seem to be good at the "scholar" lane. I think it'll be a great video and give us a better insight. I am a 50 yr old and think its gotten realllll muddy...
Props on video but come on give whole story right or wrong just give true story
Niice
Yoo did you narrate peice by peice?
no
That was renos
Yeah
No one should be serious about graffiti. At least to me the main thing was about having fun and expressing yourself. I understand why writers act so serious but wish that energy could be channeled into elevating the art form.
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yesssah
Zero substance at all
lol
While talented, MSK turned out to be a bunch of clowns.
💯
MSK is a NYC crew from The 80s. Cali just copied and bit the Only MSK. Manhattan Subway Killers.
Clowns that have pieces still running from 2 decades ago that no one touches. Clowns that turned their graff into million dollar businesses. Clowns that have been arrested, stabbed, injured , shot at for graffiti and have gotten up globally.
@Aaron Kamakaze Their work and achievements have standing, yes, no one is denying that.
But some of their actions an attitude's are very circus tent. Retna was all over social media years ago burning money piles, punching people, and being a hollywood douche. Revok out here selling spiralgraphs now, while shilling for war and other leftist trash talking points, Ewok the same, Gkae still a got the mindset of a child fighting with other writters online about 25+ year old drama while larping like he's a cholo when he's a tiny little white dude.
@Buzz Bronski oh hey . Hi toy . How's toy life been treating alright?
Nice
United bommers
La wins
Maybe by default 😆
never tho