My first experience of graffiti was during the punk era and the concept of getting your name or crew known and that you may have been in to areas that where outside your territory, in graffiti terms this is know as "getting up" or "getting your name up and out there". Now the Midlands UK is not quite New York and the gang situation was nothing like there so the tagging was really just a sign we had been there and nothing more than vandalism. Today if there's one form of graffiti that I'm not into it's tagging, probably because it's the most abused, as any fool can scrawl tag on a wall so it's not what I would a call art. It was hip hip hop that embraced graffiti and made it it's own the movement and it's as big today as it ever was. Having said all that, through time, "getting up" and "kinging it", there are some tags that have been there for years. "Seen" for one, there is a definite art in some of these hand styles, add to that to the fact that many graffiti writers do tag or sign their walls, such as Nylon and UARM. Anyway time to stop rambling and move on to some of the graffiti clothing on Sturban Clothing.
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