Posts Tagged ‘graffiti’
Tweets Is Watching
September 17th, 2010
Overheard at an Internet Cafe…
“What’d you do last night, man?”
“We did, um, two whole tweets. It was me, @Dez, and @Mean3, right? And on the first tweet in small letters it said…
; ?>/saywordpress/wp-content/uploads/old/hiphop_cake.jpg” /><em>The celebration of meaningless round numbers in our society is one way we are bound together, and hip-hop is no different. Apparently, someone somewhere has declared that hip-hop is now 30 and everyone — television networks, record labels, commentators — has taken the opportunity to blabber on and on about its history and social significance. Not to be outdone, and motivated by professional jealousy, the GBs set about writing our own hip-hop retrospective. Sadly, initial enthusiasm gave way to eventual boredom, and we stopped about 2 paragaphs into it. Luckily, one of our readers has done the job for us, as he has related his own hip-hop experience in a way we think is both eloquent and instructive.</em></p>
<p>Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:37:42 -0800 (PST)<br />
From: “Josh Davis” [stylz4mylz@yahoo.com]<br />
Subject: Hip-Hop Turns 30 (If You Say So!)<br />
To: contact@gossipingbitches.com</p>
<p>What up, GB, </p>
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[Graffiti & No Meat; Fairey Keeping it Tru to tha Streetz
March 26th, 2004
After stenciling street lamps and t-shirts across the nation with his hip-hop-inspired iconography, OBEY GIANT’S Shepard Fairey has turned his creative eye to fruit. “Muhfuckas was painting up shoes and chairs and shit all last year,” says Fairey (pronounced not like ‘Fairy’), “I really had to diversify to keep my profits swinging.” “The banana, it […]
Hip-Hoppers Hit Up Harry’s Hogwart
September 4th, 2003
Reuters news service reports a gang of hip-hop listening vandals have attacked and defaced Harry Potter’s train, the Hogwarts Express using aerosol paint; an act better known as graffiti. The train, which actively serves travelers between Scarborough and York, is estimated at costing more than $5,000 to repair. “The people who did this are mindless […]