VICE Meets the Graffiti Godfathers - Miami Style Gods
All across Miami, you’ll find countless tags done by MSG-the Miami Style Gods, a graffiti crew that’s been around since the early 90s. And two decades later, they’re still bombing as many walls, highway signs, bridges, billboards, and abandoned buildings as they can find.
VICE met up with members of the crew-who believe their trade is vandalism, not art-to find out why they’re so dedicated to a trade that makes no money and is often dangerous, from altercations with the cops to dangling over busy highways.
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No, street art & graffiti are two totally different things.
Miami graffiti was in it's prime from 1985-2005ish. Even the hoods were still lively in that time frame. After about 2010 it became "hip" in Wynwood. If you ask anybody from Miami the best time to be alive in that city was 1985 - 2005. Downtown Miami was still just office towers so the only people who went Downtown after work hours were bombers. It was the pre-gentrification years too so if you saw something bombed up with graffiti you knew it was legit.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to call what you do art, some people want to call smoking meth medicating lmao... it is an art form you’re just a vandal it’s okay bro.
"I just like writing on other people's shit"
The crazy thing is if you were a kid in Miami in the 90s and you did graffiti then crook and Crome were legends to you .them two had and still have a huge influence over young writers they planted the seed to express yourself and bomb the city
The closest thing I've ever seen to this Is PK and kid from New Jersey and New York they do some crazy stuff look it up
Did this episode already air a few months ago ?
I'd love to go spray paint their cars and houses and ask them if its still cool
They are LITERALLY the person who thrive for thrill in their 30s. . . . WOW
So 004 never crossed vice’s mind
My favorite coming out of miami now is atomic. My camera roll is full of that big ass orange 😂😂
Much respect to these guys but I dont think they can be called Style Gods, some of the pieces shown around the city were of much higher quality than the ones made by them. Much respect tho
Wait this is on Vice Asia...
Part 2???
Reupload
This video is a very narrow scope of something much larger than just these dudes. While they might do it just to fuck shit up there's a much larger of community of writers that are in it for the art form and the vandalism is just a byproduct of the art. So don't base you're opinion on writers just on these guys.
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Братья, это охуенно! Вы настоящие люди с большой буквы! Вы делаете реальные вещи в этом бессмысленном мире!
"Do thou warn thy People before there comes to them a grievous Penalty.""
My dad is does tattoo to