selector.dub.u wrote:
Interesting stuff here doomstep.
Where is the phase 2 quote from? Do you have a link for that?
And as far as music and early graff writers go is there a link you can point to concerning that assertion?
Thanks.
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dunno a link sorry, but its from an interview in HHC, #191, July 2005.
in another interview, in waxpoetics, he talks about the 'casual' link between 1st wave writers & b-boys. The link is def. there, but at the time, esp pre-masterpiece, the signature writers were very much a mixed bag. Obviouslly people would have been goin to the park jams etc, but just as many where prob sat at home drawin to Led Zep & Sabbath as relaks mentioned.
I observed the same thing locally, when I was 11-12, just as many writers in the north / north-west of Adelaide where metalheads - black jeans & metallica etc. as were "b-boys"
relaks; I think it does matter. Lookin at something like pixacao in sao paulo, where the primary drive behind style has been (almost) mostly local, instead of mass/media based, I think style could be movin alot quicker. Alot of "graff" is deeply nostalgic & completly lacking in the innovation of the first wave, the essential problem is, as phase 2 says:
"we shouldn't let others control how it's perceived and conceived, ... this infantile media concocted label, like that word that they slapped on this culture. ..."