HALL OF FAME – New York City

BIO, T-KID 170, CEM / 1990

PER, Koos (SHAME 125), BOM005 / 1990

I first painted here with my cousins “Rudy (Rude106) and Mike (Transam112/Firebird112/TA112/FB112). I was a ‘baby’ among the Skulls so I was hitting up the wall for the gang, but not as a writer, even though Smily 149 (RIP) was close to my cousin See2 (a Savage Skulls warlord). I remember my other cousin Chino Malo as being a dope artist before being a writer and introducing me to Smily149. I tagged 174 Spider and my gang name on the wall with three cans I stole from the hardware store on Lexington Avenue. BOM005 44

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HALL OF FAME – New York City

Published on Sep 16, 2012

From Here To Fame Publishing

About

The birthplace of the style writing school of graffiti is New York City. This is the place where young writers first began to transform letters from simple tags on a wall to elaborate masterpieces of colorful and camoflauged letters embellished with characters that depicted friends and heroes alike. By the 1980s the artwork was quickly destroyed by authorities and the artists seeking to preserve some of their works took hold of schoolyards around the city to paint grander works. It was a no-nonsense approach to save their art form and spread their fame to the local kids. The most famous of these schoolyards is located in East Harlem on 106th street and Park Avenue and it became known as the Hall of Fame. At first the Hall of Fame was established to bring together the best artists in the city and have them paint in the same schoolyard supplanting the number 5 train as the showcase place for the best graffiti art in New York.

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