Wow, never ever seen this documentary before, fantastic. Me who thought only blacks and puerto-ricans were doing that I am really surprised to see those white kids doing the same thing.
Love this! So good. I really like the commentary of the citizens. All very interesting and probably true too. Also I can’t believe how up Cliff was. Such cool styles and so innovative but he was up like hell too! Must have been one of the most up.
I hate graffiti and where these people chose to write it. While today's NYC largely keeps it away, these people still risk their lives to paint lame graffiti in dangerous places. No one can read it, most are ugly and they are on people's property - not their own.
Wow... this rare gem has alluded me for all these decades. A lot of the B-roll was re used in another BBC doc called ‘Beat This - A Hip Hop History (circa ‘84). I never knew the origin of that footage was from this. Reminds me of ‘stations of the elevated’, rare obscure, but a nice insight into early days of the NY graffiti dynasty.
Yeah, that was mainly because around this time New York City was on the brink of bankruptcy; so since they didn’t really have any money, that meant that they had to drastically cut social services, as well as lay of some of the firefighters and police officers as well, hence the kind of grim and dirty landscape that you see in this documentary.
Did you know that Once you spend a million dollars at art primo, green ranger takes you to Disneyland? I managed to do it in 1 order and all I had to do was buy like 6 krink products, posting from the line at space mountain as we speak!
