NYC - The Scrapyard

here it is boys and girls. my first blog. this ones been itching to be let out for ya'll. after my trip to the big apple, i came away with a few decent, graffiti backing labels, which ive since looked into a bit further. they were discovered from a store they may aswell call Aerosol Heaven. instead they named it The Scrapyard, and filled this small dosage of space with all the good NY satisfactions of LTD Kid Robot Toys, The Hundreds Toys, Obey LTD Promotional Features, Crooks and Castles Tee's, caps cans and canvases of all sizes and colours, trainers dating back from the golden age of Hip-Hop, whereby the store was still in existance, supplying some of the great pioneers back in the hay with their ammunition. this place was not only situated in the heart of NYC's artist area (Canal St.) but it was also a shrine to any Graff head Pilgrim like i. to cut a long $400 story short, add nearly an hour of gallavanting in a space that could merely fit 10 people in (thats how much shit there was crammed in) my whole NYC savings in their till, and a smile from ear to ear







heres some of the labels i raked up.

http://www.kweenzdestroy.net/

http://bombinmagazine.com/

http://www.palisusa.com/


i also managed to find an artefact that id been searching for, minus the hassle of online shopping....a documentary filmed in the golden age of Hip-Hop, in the heart of Hip-Hop (NY) with the people that gave graff the heart, pioneers such as Dondi, Seen, Kase 2,Skeem, Zephyr,Futura,Shy 147 , Iz the Wiz Butch etc etc... it takes you back before the NY transit buffer system, and follows the major posses of the time through the yards, the sewers, the streets, the darkness and on the tracks as they comment on every aspect of graffiti. Turly a remarkable and revolutionary piece of cinematic and Hip-Hop history. with features from the rock steady crew and music from Grand Wizard Theodore , its basically this and Wildstyle that kill it for the birth of Hip-Hop in the hay

heres a few clips from Style Wars.... and a sneaky one for Wildstyle

Style Wars

Wildstyle (History-the snippet , i mean, the tinyyyy snippet of music you hear at the start of this video, and the toward 2:21 was sampled by Mobb Deep Ft 50 cent- The Infamous...its originally by Grand Wizard Theodore, inventor of the scratch, and is called Subway Theme)