Oldschool Subway Legends
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2013
- The subway era began in the mid 60's in New York City. From tags, to throw ups, to straight letters, to pieces and burners, to whole cars... graffiti exploded on the subway lines through the 70's. It went strong up until the mid 80's, when the clean train movement began. This was a sad loss yet a win at the same time, as graffiti spilled from the trains onto the streets and went global. This video is dedicated to the now legendary graffiti writers that pushed this movement worldwide.
These are all photos found online all credit due to the photographers who took the images many years ago.
Sound tracks:
Big L & Jay Z 1995 freestyle
Joey Bada$$ - Waves
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Mindblowing - been doing graffiti for 30 years, no one will ever beat what those guys did during that era. Gives me goosebumps watching the level, raw energy and talent on those pieces. Music is spot on as well.
I agree, but if people had a weekend to do panels on today. I think you would be suprised
these are easy pieces, respect only for the fact that they are pioneers in graffiti.
I remember in Soring 2004, about 6 months after i had seen Style Wars for the first time and got into graffiti. I was driving on RT 4 north of Cincinnati and went under an Overpass as a freight was rolling thru and right as i got close and went under the freight a ZEPH piece went by. It was so crazy to me.
Then a few months later a friend and i were walking tracks north of Cincinnati and saw a wall with a bunch of tags/handstyles on it and there was Zephyr, Naceo (Nace, who had died in 2001) and a bunch of other world famous writers.
I later realized it was Met's "sign in" wall. Met lived nearby and there was also a Tropicana distribution site nearby which was pretty much the best place in the country to paint those Tropicana Freights, they were really special train cars.
You can tell that MEAN DEZ and SKEME where all friends and way ahead of their time because one of them came up with that still even used today style of straight letter! amazin
My neighbors brother was friends with Ghost, he caught a tag in silver paint marker on their green shed in my alleyway, the shed is long gone now but I remember it like it was yesterday, I’ve always liked his style, lots of legends here, I took plenty of screenshots to preserve the art.
Anyone feel the nostalgia while watching this?😩😟😞 Damn I wish I was their. Style Wars
The 70's and 80s in NYC 🗽 IT WAS THE BEST ERA EVER! THE MUSIC ,ART AND FASHION !!!!
0:45 That 1979 ZEPHYR piece is something special. Peep the evolution of that tag compared to his today... So much style forty years deep.
1:06 ZEPHYR again, a year later. The progress in letter styles is so dope. This was such an explosive time... Seeing the progression from the seventies into the supreme sickness of style that was the 80s is so fresh.
Subway art is magic for all people & children but dangerous for artist. Peace to all for this art.
why do you say it is dangerous for artists ?
94Bertrand you obviously Ain’t a graffiti writer
@@94Bertrand cuz you can get hit by trains, electrocuted, arrested, shot, stabbed, etc
2:20 I love how that KASE piece skips up from the baseline of the train into the doors... That is such precise style for days. The dimensions on that are dope, too...
Rip to da king of style kase1
The KING of WildStyle! Kase2 TFP. From Cue1 TNT
Man oh man !....I do miss these days ! Free as a bird and doing what we wanted and not giving a fuck !...eventually I grew up but I still like to take a trip down memory lane in my head.....Thanks for the trip ! ✌️
Same here brotha, those were great times!!
These peeps is why i write today
pure art, bold , brazen, and unapologetic
STYLE PIONEERS
So much funk and style in letter development back then,
I was bombing in the UK 83-87 Best days of my life
I was born to late
Me too brother
I should born 40 years earlier
Nate Giovanni i feel yah
eastern europa is pretty much like 80's or 90's NYC. You see a lot of new pannels on trains. Every. Single. Day. ... In countries such as slovenia, there are even parties inside yards, and they usually don't bother cleaning the trains (except windows)
Me too and too far north haha
I see a lot of heads that say they were born too late and whatnot, I think that's too bad. To paraphrase Case2, "You're coming up, other niggas are coming up, and it's just going to keep going..." And he's right; without new cats in the game the styles, the aesthetic - it dries up and fades like a Kiwi mop that stood out in the sun too long. This lifestyle and art continually needs new players in the game to keep it going, not more cats wishing they were part of a different generation.
Shout out Ridgewood, NY!
skeme was pure class
Indeed, far ahead from his time
Also Dez TFA (aka Dezzy Dez)...
@@andreamerino9146 aka dj kay slay
@@landrum182 facts...
Love this... thanks for posting
Dope ! gave me goose bumps watching this and the beats.....insane ! thanks
Real hip hop never dies. True classic shit right here.
true af
Yes sir!!
Graff aint no hip hop
@@thefishisraw117 Yes, it is... Graffiti, Breakdance, DJ's and MC's, are Hip hop. Are the 4 elements.
@@jakgd just because hiphop was included in the movie style wars, doesn't mean it is a element of graffiti
I remember seeing the Dondi top to bottom on the 2 or 5 train at Southern Boulevard in the Bronx while the sun was shining on it early 80's..I was blown away.
It’s a trip to see the prototypical graf style develop. You can see where the styles originated from and how it developed. So much of it is the same, just refined over years of development.
glad we have those pictures on the internet
If you look above the ghost at 6:00 , you see a FIB tag. After the trains were cleaned in 89, that guy was all over the highways.
jab7168 yeah in Grand Theft Auto too, lol.
@@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS wonder if he trademarked his tag and got some $
BIG L RIP
These guys do better art work then the MTA Arts for transit.
amazing video!
Thank you
sweet video!!!
I wonder if Heaven has a place where we car do graffiti.
its nothing better than to see your work rolling by on a subway car #ilovetheart
0:24 nevermind about not being able to see out the windows, you can’t even see the damn windows!
Lol i love how the guys chillen on the third rail like "Nah It'll be fine". 3:33. Miss the old nyc sometimes, good and bad times but over it had charm and charisma. Now ehhhh not so much. 😞
Sergei Denecko I definitely feel you, but damn it was gangsta back then, when you went out you never knew if you were going to come back home sometimes, you definitely had to watch your step. I remember being 14 years old in Harlem on a Saturday night, my friends and I gave a dude we knew a ride from Astoria to Harlem to go to Crazy Eddies dust spot, we were literally parked in a no parking zone and not another car in sight just us. The dude we drove there had mad juice in Harlem, we just chilled right there and dude started flipp’n dust L’s with Newport, 5.0 drove by and didn’t even look at us, lol crazy ass shit especially given that I’m whiter than a ghost, ahh the good ol days, lol.
I’ve noticed a lot of writers back then touched the third rail, was it not working or something?
2:29 seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen
Nice back to back me too was born to late
Dope wholecars
RISE ONE SOUL STONE BROTHERS WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN still here...
Amazing
Fun times before the internet spoiled it all.
True bro i born 2005 but i wish i be born at 80s
Burners, throw upz, pieces, from trainz too black books graff was part of the culture.
Much respect and could never forget these legends.
Did I miss BADINC Sonic?
1:43 dope
Nah dude
to keep it real i miss the old day of graff. those were the days. mad LOVE TO THE M.O.D KREW. ALE MOD
It's all dope!!
Yep first time going to NYC in 83, thats how it was. Got on a top to bottom
gotta love the krylon dayz
It was All about the art on train's this is how we expressed ourselves
Yo! It's COLOR I.D. Finally, THE REAL DEAL FOOTAGE in Color,2020 KINGZ. A Blessing 🙏
that's some amazing oldschool graff ! tracy 187 blade comet zephyr wow so cool and really early stuff but its all 70s there was no train graff in 60s !!! !!! !!!
Undead Holy Undead !!! Tracy 168, no?
You should have kept the keep it real instrumental throughout the entire vid.
KING DUSTER,,,,,LAST ONE HITS THE TRAINS WINS RIGHT?,,,SEE IM STILL HERE
dusty bornfree
Duke, if this is Dustr from the days !...absolute,utmost, supreme respect
yes,,,and thank you
dusty bornfree now u hasbeen cest vns reigns all city
@@cesterificvnstompsuout773 "Yeaaah, he is hasbeen. And you're what we call a Wannabee"
DUST true legend
He use to hit the L.I.E
he was kinging that expressway as well as the trains
miss this shit the racking bombing layups yards DUST it was a great era fun times!!!!
It's all Beautiful!!! 😁
Late 70,s and all of the 80,s MY ERA...GEE.WILD STYLE.. TCT..TBB..TNP..TNB..
There's loads on this vid that I've never seen (and Ive been into this shit sunce the mid 80s)The one artist who always got bigged up but I never knew why (because I had never seen any of his shit) was Ghost,and now I've seen his shit ,man he was so dope.You can really see where Reas got his style from.And if ANYONE out there knows, was Sent really Seen because he has a very similar style and Sent One is an anagram of Not Seen and we know that Seen liked to fuck around with other names
Hola. G. "SUBWAY ART AS THE FINEST" Graffiti Artists Writers and LEGENDARY PEOPLE😇 U KNOW What I Know. Thank U 😘.
Legendary
golden ages of graffitis (and real hiphop) are gone but not forgotten!
Most of the bombers I know are actually punks, squaters, various kinds of artists/illustrators ... So I dont see a connexion between graff and hip hop music anymore.
But the best era for bombing, is the comming 2020's ... trust me, we'^ll chat about that in 2030.
@@94Bertrand And how exactly will that happen?
It’s graffiti brah, just graffiti.
@@94Bertrand indeed but back in the days I knew many hip hoppers that digged graff too
That FBA crew wholecar.. so advanced.
Stone Flb 🏴🗽✨🎤💣💣💣💣🍺🌚🦹🏻 2021.
This is what it was All about
No,The song Is Big L,98 Freestyle.
Sick and tired of Mark Bode claiming his father influenced NYC graffiti.
Crazy this was my error but all these trains perfectly operating and they scrapped them!!!🤮
😂 you sound stupid how is a 1mm layer of paint gonna ruin the train from operating its only vandalism cause they chose to pay for it and we are never going to stop😂
How often did they even clean those subway cars?
Mythique...all of fame.🙏
What'd you do last night man?
1:44
Secret Agent
Not enough seen pieces!
Edward Desouter I saw a lot of pieces, lol damn I’m such a troll, lol jk, yeah definitely need more SEEN, he inspired Cheese with that dope throw up though.
tracy 168 !
Im from Poland
Koleszko wrzucaj wiecej filmów z jardami.My w europie bardzo lubimy takie miejscówki.Pozdrawiam!
Blood wars baby
Rip king's bombing...
insparational
Dementes......510................
Beat from milkbone keep it real
Old shcool
4.11 Dero & Wane cod crossed out by the vandal pigs
La rana.....de tijuana...border brothers.......
Skeme❤
1:23 1984
Go,skeme,go...
Yur,da baddest
Real,,king...
Bless u
New York New York
Da, o.g Graff city
Skeme4 ever
Tmt,,tmt,,tmt,,tmt....
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7DEADLY SINS BK NYC..F TRAIN SMASHED ind line on lock!!!!!!
I used to hang with Sur and Buck 84-85 - I think Sur was somebody's bro. ha- 7DS
Yeah kilo and his crew most def had the f trains on lock
Duz C.W. bushwick oldschool
Kise rip
Baby Boomers doing there thing.
Русским прив
Здарова 👋
None of this music makes sense.