First tagger in LA?

[junior23lbc]

chaka wrote all over the states

[perongregory]

Chaka, and hobo I know of. Chaka was all city.

[BIG DUSTY LOCO]

From what I heard, Alski wasn't the 1st writer out in LA...

Maybe we should come up with the name of a TRUE LA ORIGINAL WRITER...not an out of town transplant.

Who would that be?

[tecate]

Big CHAZ N.E.L.A

[alexalonso]

From what I heard, Alski wasn't the 1st writer out in LA...

Maybe we should come up with the name of a TRUE LA ORIGINAL WRITER...not an out of town transplant.

Who would that be?

onr thing people were doing back then were taking lots of photos, so if you know of some pure Hip Hop style taggers that were writing, lets say 1981 -1982 in
Los Angeles, please post those fotos or at least there names to where we can google their names and find some info on those cats. I do know that there have always been non-gang related wall writers in Los Angeles, but there were not out of the Hip Hop tradition. If I am wrong, where were they and lets see some flikas.

[alexalonso]

Hey,what's up everybody?These are the tagger's that I know of,when i used to tag(NEX).NEX,PRICE(SIZE),ELER,TRIAX,DREW,SAME,SLEEZE,GEO,CHASE,PRIME,TOMCAT,MIKE,CHICAGO,WISK,MINER,GIN,METRO,RASE,ORION,ROB-ONE,SKATE,MAZE,HEX,KEX,SKEPT,CEPT,MEC,SER,CHAKA,GREEN,RISK,PJAY,BLIZZ,IMAGE,STEVER,DRIP,SMURF,2DEV,BUG29,KASS. NEX-OTR!

of that list I personally knew/know Geo (rip), prime, wisk, miner, skept, and risk. I always used to see Triax. He used to sign his names with two dots. Any one remember that? I never met Triax and i never met Chaka either.

[Silencioso]

Hip Hop graffitti in L.A. as a SCENE started in early '84. Early crews in the UNI high are were Artists After Dark, The Bomb Squad, Insanity Crew, Freak City Bombing Crew and a few others. The first people to bomb Uni in spring '84 were Blitz and Crazy J who were both white boys from the Bomb Squad crew. Then Sham and Freeze, also TBS. After that the school got hit by a lot of different writers and the graff scene was up and going strong.

[WIP]

Slick Risk Dante those are my hermanos for real

[alexalonso]

Hip Hop graffitti in L.A. as a SCENE started in early '84. Early crews in the UNI high are were Artists After Dark, The Bomb Squad, Insanity Crew, Freak City Bombing Crew and a few others. The first people to bomb Uni in spring '84 were Blitz and Crazy J who were both white boys from the Bomb Squad crew. Then Sham and Freeze, also TBS. After that the school got hit by a lot of different writers and the graff scene was up and going strong.

I agree, about early 1984, or even late 1983 when I was seeing Davism, but some people on this forum that there were guys doing hip hop style tagging in 1982 and earlier. I never heard of that but if they exist I would like to know, but early 1984 is when it really got poppin.

[WIP]

The crazyest hit has got to be when SEEN from the Bronx came out and bombed that Hollywood side back in 85.

[WIP]

Sign

[Silencioso]

Alonso,

In my neighborhood there were a couple of guys that were tagging briefly in late '82. Their tags were Hobo and Slash. HBO had a documentary about the subway art scene around that time, they thought it was cool and imitated what they saw. The pieces they did were basically throw-ups without any fill-in color. They were OK. Nobody paid much attention, really. A year later, Wild Style came out, break dancing got huge and things got hopping for real.

[Old Shatterhand]

I can remember some tagging even in areas like Buena Park and Fullerton (FTT for example) even back into the early seventies. But I agree that it didn't really get going until the East Coast scene popularized it. West Coast got going in the early 80's.

[andrew]

Alonso,

In my neighborhood there were a couple of guys that were tagging briefly in late '82. Their tags were Hobo and Slash. HBO had a documentary about the subway art scene around that time, they thought it was cool and imitated what they saw. The pieces they did were basically throw-ups without any fill-in color. They were OK. Nobody paid much attention, really. A year later, Wild Style came out, break dancing got huge and things got hopping for real.

haha.....i remember '82 style graffiti.......the gang style back then was corny as hell and the b-boy shi was all bubble letters

[Noog]

I loved graf as a little youth - and was inspired the same way - I did bigger pieces (not for years and years now though), things like 'buy, eat, consume, die' in wildstyle across a shopping centre, or 'blues' on a wall outside the unemployment offices......loved it.

[alexalonso]

does anyone have any 1982 or even 1983 pics from LA?

[alexalonso]

Does any remember Soon & Legit. They were probably the first bombers in LA, especially SOON. I met them back in 1983 / 84. I even have a photo of Legit's bedroom and I have a bunch of old SOON bombs from 84 and 85. I heard that Legit died but SOON is still around.

Also there was a guy named CHAZZ from the 1970s. I wouldnt call him a tagger but he used to hit up the city back then.

[xxx]

Soon & Legit are alive in Atlanta ....

Soon claims he was the first to do it in L.A.

He landed here in late 82.

[AztecNinja]

I see alot of names that take me back to my tagging days, a little off topic but wheres the love for Skez,Same,Geso,Iggy,Mando,Panic,125,Angst,Pryer and Cab who is the first to hit the "heavens". I read the book Mexican Mafia the other day and they put together a chart of PeeWee and his soldiers from Aves. It tripped me out cause I grew up with half those dudes and we were all from the same tagging crew. When BSK became a click off HLP they brought them back from the dead, but alot of people dont know the 8 or so BSK's that got into Aves really put it down aswell.

[xxx]

[xxx]

THE FIRST TO HIT THE HEAVENS

[Silencioso]

From what I heard, Alski wasn't the 1st writer out in LA...

Maybe we should come up with the name of a TRUE LA ORIGINAL WRITER...not an out of town transplant.

Who would that be?

onr thing people were doing back then were taking lots of photos, so if you know of some pure Hip Hop style taggers that were writing, lets say 1981 -1982 in
Los Angeles, please post those fotos or at least there names to where we can google their names and find some info on those cats. I do know that there have always been non-gang related wall writers in Los Angeles, but there were not out of the Hip Hop tradition. If I am wrong, where were they and lets see some flikas.

I know this is an old post but I'll answer. There were a few people tagging that early. My friend and I were two of those people that were exposed early to hip-hop tagging and did it briefly in '82. HBO showed a short doc. on NY tagging with writers like Dondi and Crash. An art magazine around the same time that I saw at a newstand had an article on the NY scene. It had several full color pieces by Dondi, Crash and Futura. With this basic information we started taggin. He wrote Slash and I wrote Hobo. All our tags were throw-ups without fills. It didn't last long and I don't recall anybody else tagging or even knowing what it was. The following year, the tagging scene in L.A. truly started via the hiphop/rap/break dancing craze.

[xxx]

What was the last name you were writing?

[Silencioso]

What was the last name you were writing?

Sham AKA Sham1500 (1500 was my block number) . Like many taggers I went through a few names before I found the one that worked.

[xxx]

I bought Wisk's book The History of Los Angeles Graffiti and The History of American Graffiti ....are u mentioned in those books?

[Silencioso]

I bought Wisk's book The History of Los Angeles Graffiti and The History of American Graffiti ....are u mentioned in those books?

I doubt it, although I knew that fool.