Oldschool Subway Legends

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Oldschool Subway Legends

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11 жыл бұрын

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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@ldred2604 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@magnusgranskau7487 Жыл бұрын

I agree, but if people had a weekend to do panels on today. I think you would be suprised

@Dima00175 10 ай бұрын

these are easy pieces, respect only for the fact that they are pioneers in graffiti.

@Qseyo24 Ай бұрын

El rap en su máximo estado de representación gráfica y esencia.. menencantan las piezas que hacían en los 80s desde q empecé a pintar quería imitar el estilo pero es difícil.. saludos desde Argentina y q vivan los throw ups!!!!

@Qseyo24 Ай бұрын

@@Dima00175fáciles pero echas con pura calidad buena combinación de colores rosa y amarillo me encanta.. prefiero el graffiti yankee sobre el europeo

@blacktiger5985 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone feel the nostalgia while watching this?😩😟😞 Damn I wish I was their. Style Wars

@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@dereism4478 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@MarvinMonroe Жыл бұрын

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.

@demontongue9893 3 жыл бұрын

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

@dereism4478 6 жыл бұрын

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...

@killerpretty 5 жыл бұрын

Rip to da king of style kase1

@cuel347 5 ай бұрын

The KING of WildStyle! Kase2 TFP. From Cue1 TNT

@bondwin7025 Жыл бұрын

The 70's and 80s in NYC 🗽 IT WAS THE BEST ERA EVER! THE MUSIC ,ART AND FASHION !!!!

@mirzouch 10 жыл бұрын

Subway art is magic for all people & children but dangerous for artist. Peace to all for this art.

@94Bertrand 5 жыл бұрын

why do you say it is dangerous for artists ?

@OneshotMovement 4 жыл бұрын

94Bertrand you obviously Ain’t a graffiti writer

@MarvinMonroe Жыл бұрын

@@94Bertrand cuz you can get hit by trains, electrocuted, arrested, shot, stabbed, etc

@HeROsiNhEaVeN 6 жыл бұрын

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 ! ✌️

@Carlos-nq7up 5 жыл бұрын

Same here brotha, those were great times!!

@CHRISANDREOU4199 Жыл бұрын

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

@assadmuhammad7058 8 жыл бұрын

pure art, bold , brazen, and unapologetic

@yoyoholck 7 жыл бұрын

skeme was pure class

@94Bertrand 5 жыл бұрын

Indeed, far ahead from his time

@andreamerino9146 3 жыл бұрын

Also Dez TFA (aka Dezzy Dez)...

@landrum182 3 жыл бұрын

@@andreamerino9146 aka dj kay slay

@andreamerino9146 3 жыл бұрын

@@landrum182 facts...

@fantent.5753 4 жыл бұрын

These peeps is why i write today

@ACESTER_TNS 5 жыл бұрын

Shout out Ridgewood, NY!

@Terra_Rex_Shop 10 жыл бұрын

Dope ! gave me goose bumps watching this and the beats.....insane ! thanks

@emesvideo 9 жыл бұрын

Real hip hop never dies. True classic shit right here.

@pamelmodz6242 7 жыл бұрын

true af

@Carlos-nq7up 5 жыл бұрын

Yes sir!!

@thefishisraw117 3 жыл бұрын

Graff aint no hip hop

@jakgd 3 жыл бұрын

@@thefishisraw117 Yes, it is... Graffiti, Breakdance, DJ's and MC's, are Hip hop. Are the 4 elements.

@thefishisraw117 3 жыл бұрын

@@jakgd just because hiphop was included in the movie style wars, doesn't mean it is a element of graffiti

@anthonyyoung3194 7 жыл бұрын

I was born to late

@Henry-zz5st 7 жыл бұрын

Me too brother

@Browowowar 7 жыл бұрын

I should born 40 years earlier

@niet.politiek.correct2971 6 жыл бұрын

Nate Giovanni i feel yah

@94Bertrand 5 жыл бұрын

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)

@bryanmayes9234 5 жыл бұрын

Me too and too far north haha

@RekLooseRocks 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@including5170 7 жыл бұрын

These guys do better art work then the MTA Arts for transit.

@delucas66 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Klos1neMN 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@lauw6999 6 жыл бұрын

glad we have those pictures on the internet

@danabrahams7892 Жыл бұрын

Love this... thanks for posting

@sergeidenecko2954 4 жыл бұрын

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. 😞

@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@rav9681 Жыл бұрын

I’ve noticed a lot of writers back then touched the third rail, was it not working or something?

@blacktiger5985 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Heaven has a place where we car do graffiti.

@risesubway1973 2 жыл бұрын

RISE ONE SOUL STONE BROTHERS WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN still here...

@MikeGloomberg 6 жыл бұрын

BIG L RIP

@Teem1GFLcrew 11 жыл бұрын

Dope wholecars

@zacharylegaspi7594 5 жыл бұрын

0:24 nevermind about not being able to see out the windows, you can’t even see the damn windows!

@mankeruuu8535 6 жыл бұрын

2:29 seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen Nice back to back me too was born to late

@johng167100 6 жыл бұрын

its nothing better than to see your work rolling by on a subway car #ilovetheart

@jab7168 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS 4 жыл бұрын

jab7168 yeah in Grand Theft Auto too, lol.

@jab7168 4 жыл бұрын

@@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS wonder if he trademarked his tag and got some $

@TheJoescione 11 күн бұрын

FIB AND the DCEE are iconic late 80 early 90! Kings!! They have been active in the 2000’s and still get down!! DC WAS LIKE 12 back then! I know them both

@TheJoescione 11 күн бұрын

I tried to get DC to do some kind of doc to get it on to the record books and FIB too…

@TheJoescione 11 күн бұрын

They won’t do anything.

@choloneressurected 3 жыл бұрын

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?

@charlesdaniels4082 Жыл бұрын

It was All about the art on train's this is how we expressed ourselves

@undeadholyundead7058 5 жыл бұрын

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 !!! !!! !!!

@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS 4 жыл бұрын

Undead Holy Undead !!! Tracy 168, no?

@biggreddeuro7199 4 жыл бұрын

Yo! It's COLOR I.D. Finally, THE REAL DEAL FOOTAGE in Color,2020 KINGZ. A Blessing 🙏

@howardsend6589 5 жыл бұрын

Fun times before the internet spoiled it all.

@uainttouf2862 4 жыл бұрын

True bro i born 2005 but i wish i be born at 80s

@desegraffiti5665 9 жыл бұрын

1:43 dope

@mankeruuu8535 6 жыл бұрын

Nah dude

@dustybornfree4846 7 жыл бұрын

KING DUSTER,,,,,LAST ONE HITS THE TRAINS WINS RIGHT?,,,SEE IM STILL HERE

@beyondagalacticderelict1038 6 жыл бұрын

dusty bornfree Duke, if this is Dustr from the days !...absolute,utmost, supreme respect

@dustybornfree4846 6 жыл бұрын

yes,,,and thank you

@cesterificvnstompsuout773 6 жыл бұрын

dusty bornfree now u hasbeen cest vns reigns all city

@94Bertrand 5 жыл бұрын

@@cesterificvnstompsuout773 "Yeaaah, he is hasbeen. And you're what we call a Wannabee"

@DR-xt9ux 5 жыл бұрын

DUST true legend He use to hit the L.I.E he was kinging that expressway as well as the trains

@germxv 2 жыл бұрын

Yep first time going to NYC in 83, thats how it was. Got on a top to bottom

@hamboney9 11 жыл бұрын

gotta love the krylon dayz

@jarvistoledo7260 6 жыл бұрын

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

@desegraffiti5665 9 жыл бұрын

It's all dope!!

@deeznuttsinyermoutholdscho2919 7 жыл бұрын

miss this shit the racking bombing layups yards DUST it was a great era fun times!!!!

@jesus755serrano 6 жыл бұрын

Late 70,s and all of the 80,s MY ERA...GEE.WILD STYLE.. TCT..TBB..TNP..TNB..

@JRnyc 5 жыл бұрын

You should have kept the keep it real instrumental throughout the entire vid.

@bobbyrick6481 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@biggreddeuro7199 4 жыл бұрын

Hola. G. "SUBWAY ART AS THE FINEST" Graffiti Artists Writers and LEGENDARY PEOPLE😇 U KNOW What I Know. Thank U 😘.

@stoneflbstonecrewflb7299 2 жыл бұрын

Stone Flb 🏴🗽✨🎤💣💣💣💣🍺🌚🦹🏻 2021.

@Clickachu 5 жыл бұрын

amazing video!

@matthawes4395 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@hamboney9 11 жыл бұрын

sweet video!!!

@upnhere8513 Жыл бұрын

That FBA crew wholecar.. so advanced.

@justincarr8178 6 жыл бұрын

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

@ruisleipa7014 7 жыл бұрын

golden ages of graffitis (and real hiphop) are gone but not forgotten!

@94Bertrand 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@94Bertrand 5 жыл бұрын

But the best era for bombing, is the comming 2020's ... trust me, we'^ll chat about that in 2030.

@juri9276 5 жыл бұрын

@@94Bertrand And how exactly will that happen?

@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS 4 жыл бұрын

It’s graffiti brah, just graffiti.

@ruisleipa7014 4 жыл бұрын

@@94Bertrand indeed but back in the days I knew many hip hoppers that digged graff too

@Carlos-nq7up 5 жыл бұрын

It's all Beautiful!!! 😁

@francismaitre2674 5 ай бұрын

Mythique...all of fame.🙏

@jdportwerks6795 4 жыл бұрын

Crazy this was my error but all these trains perfectly operating and they scrapped them!!!🤮

@grimvallius8679 Жыл бұрын

😂 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😂

@charlesdaniels4082 Жыл бұрын

This is what it was All about

@Khultan 3 жыл бұрын

Sick and tired of Mark Bode claiming his father influenced NYC graffiti.

@rtrainproductions398 5 жыл бұрын

No,The song Is Big L,98 Freestyle.

@edwarddesouter724 5 жыл бұрын

Not enough seen pieces!

@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@justice77justice 4 ай бұрын

1:44 Secret Agent

@juri9276 5 жыл бұрын

How often did they even clean those subway cars?

@mlodv15 3 жыл бұрын

Im from Poland Koleszko wrzucaj wiecej filmów z jardami.My w europie bardzo lubimy takie miejscówki.Pozdrawiam!

@denisegonzales7890 4 жыл бұрын

Legendary

@franciscopedroreynaparra4061 4 жыл бұрын

Dementes......510................

@bmxbandito9 2 ай бұрын

Blood wars baby

@nathegotule4666 3 жыл бұрын

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.... ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑Peace N kindness down under Sydney australia

@undeadholyundead7058 5 жыл бұрын

tracy 168 !