First tagger in LA?

[BIG DUSTY LOCO]

Alonso, doesn't Gibby win the prize? OR was that for another question?

[GIBBY]

Alonso, doesn't Gibby win the prize? OR was that for another question?

Yes I do considering I posted ALSKI, IN MY FIRST POST, which Alonso missed

[CaptainSaveAHoe]

off topic, but the documentary "Style Wars" is out on DVD and includes present day interviews of many of the top writers back on the 70's (NYC)

[mangler_1960]

there were about 5 guys writing in late 1982 early 1983 that were strickly hip hop taggers. Of this group one of the guys stood out and was all city in 1984. He is mentioned on the internet on two sites that were interviews of old school writers.

When my scanner gets fixed I will try to put up some flicks of 1983 Los Angeles tags. Silencioso, if you were around from 83-86 my question to you is who was all city during those years? Ask some of your old partners. This guys name always comes up. He did not start writing after seeing a movie, but was actually writing before 1982, but that happens to be the year this person came to LA for the first time, then in 1984 was all city.

Come one now, where are the old school cats at.

....SOON FROM NYC

[SCREWLOOSE]

I remember FLIP and ILL that was in 1982-83 in inglewood and hyde park
area.

[Anonymous20]

I was reading this interview about early LA writers at of BLACK 5(ZECK) at:
http://losangelescrews0.tripod.com/black5.html

and saw the following:
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(L.A. Crews)- who did u see up back in the oldschool days???.

(BLACK-5)- ALSKI was everywhere I looked with the white paint marker at one time, on the green light poles next to the walk button, and on bus benches.SOON & LEGIT. MINER had some of the first scribes on glass I’d seen and a lot of other landmark firsts. GIN, METRO, and RASE killed those Power signs. MANE, DEKO and RECON put in so much work with scribes at the back of the buses that they outlasted most, even after they’d long stopped..

[M3G4H4CK]

got a interview with chaz.. damn goood artist representin nuthin but art.. one uf frust taggers n bombers were Coco 144, Bama , Mico, Snake , Tracy, Riff , Pistol , Mr. lucky .

first one who used 3d efects wuz Flint 707

[CHICO-NEX]

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!

[alexalonso]

Here is a 1985 photo of an Alski throw-up in an old RTD bus alley one half block east of Wilton beteen 6th and 5th Streets. It used to be called the Alski Alley from about 1984 - 85. That alley today has a gate on both sides.




http://www.streetgangs.com/graffiti/hip ... i1985.html

[img]http://www.streetgangs.com/graffiti/hiphop/pics/alski_op.jpg[/img]

[se11]

when did tagging crews start coming around in LA?

[raztheory]

thats funny ,it seems a lot of taggers have the same names as some east coast cats,i wonder if they could possibly be the same people,or maybe just coincidence?

[Silencioso]

Alonzo, I notice in your tagging section you have Alski as the oldest writer in L.A. doing tags as far back as 83.

There were a couple people in my neighborhood doing tags in late 82. Hobo and Slash.

[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]