Really well done. The gritty VHS footage really captures the era. Can’t wait for part 2

as always, really appreciating the work Jack. Much respect to DESA for doing the film. side note - it really stuck out to me how his mother wanted to move away from Bushwick high school for fear of getting involved in heroin. As a current teacher in the building, I can really appreciate how the place has cleaned up.

Great doc, you keep coming up with banger after banger... Much love from Portugal, thank you for documenting the culture and making it available free of charge for us all. Hope to cop merch from you soon, keep it real, cant wait for the next one!

Weed makes you paranoid but smoking dust doesnt?

Desa was a legend on the videograf vhs tapes hitting the tops of trains. I’m glad I grew up in era. Eventually the crew I wrote with the 203 crew got on the videograf tapes when we all moved into the city. Desa was the man when it came to ups. Y’all have fancy paint brands & caps now. We had Krylon, Rusto & few different caps. We made markers from shoe polish containers etc. y’all have it made today. The vandal squad doesn’t hunt you down. Banksy ain’t 💩 😆.

Such a dope interview/documentary.. can’t wait for part 2 to come out.. hell Id like a part 3/4 and 5 lol.. could listen to Desa talk all day. The added pictures and videos are a dope touch too. Very well done

Incredible story I couldn’t stop watching. Man that guy was productive. Great editing everyone.

Thanks for the non-lurid documentary and the insights. I am an eighties child from Europe and came into contact with graffiti/hip-hop back then.. I'm having flashbacks right now 🙏

I moved my kids to L.I. so they didn’t have to grow up like I did in the 80’s & 90’s, only got to live out there for 1 1/2 years before I got divorced and eventually moved back to Astoria, my X and the kids are still out there which is fine by me because it was always for the kids. Even though things are much different now than they were when I was growing up it comforts me to know that they’re living a better life. I can relate to so much of what DESA is saying because many of us grew up the same way at the same time, a stroll through memory lane right here!

what an amazing interview! ive been looking up to desa for my whole graff career ive always loved his throwies

incredible capture of graffiti and nyc history im excited for part two

Youre Back again great to See Awesome Job Dude

hey man. would love to see more interviews with legends like this. i know not everyone is up for it, but goddamn it's dope getting into their backgrounds. MTA is legendary.

DESA is a NYC legend like JA, GIZ, VE and so on . Thanks for the amazing work 🙏🏽

Incredible work as usual, Jack!

you're great at making these my guy thank you

Great documentary. You really captured that era of graffiti with these visuals.

Can’t wait for part 2!!!

really informative and enjoyable doco. looking forward to seeing the second part

Love your documentaries dude!

Dopeness. We need more! 😂 Well worth the wait. Salute.

Amazing work 👏 keep em coming ❤

I had a fun time watching and listening to this. Thank you.

Amazing storytelling amazing editing amazing video

Can’t wait for part 2

I remember watching the opening credits of Welcome Back Kotter as a kid from my little swamp shack in Louisiana, seeing the tagged trains blow past on the elevated lines, and i felt exactly how that guy is describing @3:55. It's a universal type of excitement... like an ultimate 'alive' moment. I totally get it.

Another really dope 😎😎 video .....best audio at that .....🎉🎉🎉 Mots talked about ❤❤❤

Amazing documentary!

Please keep these vids going they’re awesome

This was great!

Well made doc... keep up the great work, mate =)

Great doc!.

Whens part 2 dropping ???? , this was dope

Damn fam... I havn't seen anyone show a RedBird train in forever. Where you get those clips? Beautifully done JWF. Legit History without filler in this.

awesome footage of old trains with some nice work on them!

Good Documentary ... DESA definitely got his props and respect. He put in work and got his fame in the Graffiti game.

nah this shit is the realest ! big props to you jwf for this one.

He's such a legendary writer.theres a desa in my city, and he's been painting around the same time nyc desa has ..

great vid, i always like straight painting videos but i love the human side of graff too. some really interesting people

really cool. cool to see how he was saying how he seen on the trains and why he was randomly fixated on them. that was me growing up. and i always seen DESA wondering

Excellent work

What a legend this dude is. respect

Recognize alot of the early footage from my book graffiti art which I purchased in 1985 and just about wore that book out. It reached little old New Zealand back then.

This is fire 🔥 🙌 funny i just came from the lay up with Dek this past weekend lol...

THIS IS GORGEOUS. BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES... THINGS WERE SO MUCH MORE AUTHENTIC THEN. NOW IT'S A LOT OF TOYS R US SHIT NOW. THIS WAS THE "GET DOWN FOR YOURS" ERA.

Dope documentary, making this is a good deed

Most talked about!!

Dope!!

thats craazy story since i grew up in Ridgewood i like this nice documentary This is before all the hippies came different times so much change

Protect DESA AT ALL COST 💯💪🏽💪🏽

Fucking awesome video man cant wait for the next episode!

DESA MDV - really enjoyed this one. He didn't talk much about what originally drew him to graffiti, style and outside influence - I'd like to hear that shit.

Damn this dude is a true G! Vandal squad Mona… never hear of him. My era was Tom & Jerry Also if anyone did damage was KEZ5

Good ass documentry 🙌🙌

Big love for the intelligence to be honest and humble but real.

I remember my day's hanging out stories below the subways. Robbing train conductors for their keys. Shout out to Duro, Michelob, Mack2, Rebel, Dondi, Zephyr & Tkid. 149th St. bench where we all met to trade books and find out the best layups for the week.

Ahh TKA... Went to LaGuardia HS with him. We did some boosting together. Think I still got his work in a blackbook somewhere. Damn that feels like a lifetime ago.

Crazy how the mother didn’t want her kid to go to bushwick hs but moved to East Ny…

The Korean Artist TKA🔥🔥🔥

Bushwick legends! So much fun back then. I ran with or ran into a lot of these writers in the late 80's early 90's. Myrtle and Troutman! BLK, BMF, TNS, YKK and many other crews. RIP to those writers that have passed from drugs, accidents or murdered, so sad.

How the hell weed gonna give you anxiety but pcp doesn’t 😂 Dope interview wish I could go back in time to the late 80s early 90s graff was just different back then

What a crazy and interesting life he must have lived.👑👏

Hell Yea 🔥

Fire vid🔥 my father (Zim) would tell me story’s about the M train

Anyone got the name for the beat/song in the background? 7:30 Greatly appreciated

Peace Desa, good to know you still good! Grover Cleveland Days.

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Badass video

Yesssssss

Much respect from chitown homie. Fuckin dope!

REE is a good dude. He was big in the 70’s, chilled out in the 80’s but still always had that passion for graff. He does a lot of legal walls now but he’s older. DESA is a legend too, more of a vandal but both paid their dues in their own ways.

Looks like im about to smoke one and watch a desa documentary...we live in the future

Nice one ☝️

Nice, doc. Perfect descrip of, N.Y. bombing culture in the 90's.

Wow. That’s quite a story. Man. 🤯

I think they sampled those bagpipes on House Of Pain “Jump Around”

So sick but in the part2 subtitles in spanish please 🙏🏽🙏🏽

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"big deal it's a van, it will never be nothing more "😂

ik its anti graft culture to be putting everyones work on front street lately but im loving it I really love hearing all the stories these guys are modern artists

HARD!

The homie CEND LSD 👊

This was actually pretty dope. I grew up in Bushwick and remember when he came out in the paper. MTA FTR KILLED SHIT !

Man I grew up around some greats in the 90’s NYC scene but those train bombing days were sick. Miss 90’s Brooklyn 😮‍💨

DESA YOU NYC LEGEND

DESA! For The Rush...

I wasn’t a tagger. I knocked around with 6 or 7 of the main artists of my city in late 80’s. Some had witnessed the horrors of the Frank Beck situation here in UK, having been child residents of those boarding houses. My mates were out of control. Understandably. They’re all doing ok now in life. Some wrote famous records. Some wrote well known books. Some are running workshops for the next gen of artists. . It could of gone either way for a couple of those guys but I believe graff work is what kept them here. They were focused and out of trouble when working on a piece together. I’ve recently walked past a piece that my mate did in 92. I remember it being done. We all lived around from there back then. Wonderful to see it still up 30 years later and it’s also brilliant how our councils now dedicate certain spots for graff work. There will never be a day I don’t want to see work up. I don’t care much for vandalism but I think there’s a place or two perfect in every city for a touch of graff. I love to see it. It’s bright and colourful.

holy shit, family moved to east new york in late 1800s from sicily, thanks to an earthquake. i was on drew street quite a lot as a youth, white house on the corner that was never raised, theres a rebuild there, drew st. all day

Desa lived up the block from me I lived on forbell between Dumont and Blake he was almost the corner house on forebell and sutter

What’s the beat name at 20:57?

BROOKLYN KEEPS ON TAKIN IT.... KING DESA 💣👑💪 RIP VE

In the Netherlands they had designated graffiti zones along the rail lines and no one tagged the trains..

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Allegedly I use to paint in the 90 and 2000s.

do boston next graf scene been blowing up in the last few years

13:58 Bro in the back is having an existential crisis 😂 Hold it together Norm 🫡😵‍💫

Nyc in the 80s and 90s was fkn crazy

Until you’ve done a train depot you don’t know what adrenaline is…🥰💥🥰💥🥰💥🥰💥

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Yes Im from Queens and was Bombin the Same Time as Desa I had a good deal of fame too as far as Queens cats from that Era, I was Flik MIK Flik VKS Edit now all thse years later people still call Me that.