la-di da-di.
netflix never disappoints. this time, i opened by summer mailbox to find that joyful red envelope with legendary hip-hop documentary style wars inside.
style wars follows a group* (see addendum) of grafitti artists in new york city in 1982. the youth tag, or “bomb,” as they called it mta subway lines in an effort to go “all city” or have their names on every line of all the trains on each track. i learned that the early advent of grafitti happened in the mid-70s and fully bloomed in the early 80s. there was a time when mta cars were fully covered, inside and out, with tags of local youth. common themes included arrows, tags with your street address, or what was called "wild style" a style i consider to be the most familiar.
style wars follows a group* (see addendum) of grafitti artists in new york city in 1982. the youth tag, or “bomb,” as they called it mta subway lines in an effort to go “all city” or have their names on every line of all the trains on each track. i learned that the early advent of grafitti happened in the mid-70s and fully bloomed in the early 80s. there was a time when mta cars were fully covered, inside and out, with tags of local youth. common themes included arrows, tags with your street address, or what was called "wild style" a style i consider to be the most familiar.
the documentary is a classically good, not great. i fully recommend it.
*i have noticed that when referring to youth of color pop press often calls them “gangs” in a happy-go-lucky manner when the term is obnoxiously rife with racial undertone.
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