VICE Meets the Graffiti Godfathers - Miami Style Gods

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  • 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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  • @aaronburratwood.6957
    @aaronburratwood.6957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    No, street art & graffiti are two totally different things.

    • @toast_2375
      @toast_2375 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      street art is usually hired and permitted by the ones who own that area; getting the okay to make art there. graffiti is illegal and not permitted; not getting permission by those who asked.

    • @toast_2375
      @toast_2375 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i feel as if graffiti is acceptable if it's in a "chill zone" (back of highway walls, abandoned buildings, waterways, and sometimes alleys).

    • @doughboyexotics305
      @doughboyexotics305 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Facts tagging up someones small business or someones house is never cool@toast_2375

  • @julessantiago1256
    @julessantiago1256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Did this episode already air a few months ago ?

    • @F3bzer
      @F3bzer 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jules Santiago yes but to vice USA

    • @MrRed9zz
      @MrRed9zz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, you can find it in VICE's account

  • @soowoonj
    @soowoonj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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

    • @amongus-yn3sx
      @amongus-yn3sx 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea

    • @velocitc1352
      @velocitc1352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      kid pk is one from writer bro

    • @niggaasscheek8608
      @niggaasscheek8608 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@velocitc1352 Kid and Pk were actually 2 kids running streets together till one of them died but the other one still writes the others name/tag

  • @thedirtybubble9613
    @thedirtybubble9613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

    • @69Emoji
      @69Emoji ปีที่แล้ว

      used to ride down their and spend the night getitng up around miami almost every weekend in the summers between 02-08. Best times of my life. Crazy how life changes in the blink of an eye. Miss the good days. I even miss the fights lol

  • @kingjsolomon
    @kingjsolomon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    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.

    • @yungfrenchfry1
      @yungfrenchfry1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wdym?

    • @delukze
      @delukze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@yungfrenchfry1 Graffiti is an art form

  • @asim3147
    @asim3147 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "I just like writing on other people's shit"
    Well that's reasonable.

  • @waynejordan7473
    @waynejordan7473 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    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

  • @acehoward5917
    @acehoward5917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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

    • @ballsofstealful
      @ballsofstealful 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That eson throwie at 6:17 is wack , look at 5:31 and tell me that guys style has developed , gotta be the late 90s / early 00s so the ‘renowned’ writer eson hasn’t changed his shit in like 20 yrs. Toy behaviour if u ask me. Defo picked toys to portray graffiti as ugly. Not terrible tho , love to see all the butthurt normies in the comments just saw someone say that tagging must be the work of Satan lmao

    • @unknown9891
      @unknown9891 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      didnt you see that eson piece at 8:04 ?

    • @unknown9891
      @unknown9891 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ballsofstealful the throwies not wack, its a throwie it takes a couple minutes plus he did it on a fucking highway sign what more do you want from him

  • @ButterBallTheOpossum
    @ButterBallTheOpossum ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'd love to go spray paint their cars and houses and ask them if its still cool

    • @onlinefriend3889
      @onlinefriend3889 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So you're going against the graffiti philosophy to prove what point?

  • @unnatisahu853
    @unnatisahu853 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    They are LITERALLY the person who thrive for thrill in their 30s. . . . WOW

  • @J3RK75
    @J3RK75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So 004 never crossed vice’s mind

  • @SpeedyTrece
    @SpeedyTrece 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    3:50 hes writing nothing

    • @spooge4569
      @spooge4569 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      either hes cleaning a room to write again or hes priming

  • @alexrims1892
    @alexrims1892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Братья, это охуенно! Вы настоящие люди с большой буквы! Вы делаете реальные вещи в этом бессмысленном мире!

  • @ZimbabwayZ
    @ZimbabwayZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Reupload

  • @spazzymcgee1416
    @spazzymcgee1416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @PHARRAOH
    @PHARRAOH 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember back in 1993 in AZ a guy who I went to school with's brother ln law was drunk driving and doing about 80 on the freeway, zoned out and took out 3 dudes vandalizing the walls with their little paint cans. did he do time, negative! Courts fined him and took his licence for 2 years and he had dui and classes but the courts said, those vandals had no place being on the freeway to begin with. oh well.

  • @deepinthestreets5351
    @deepinthestreets5351 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mandela effect

  • @joseph-the-seventh
    @joseph-the-seventh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These guys aren't gods, they are chumps with not much going on. I used to write graffiti in my teenage years and 20's... so I know these types of losers.

  • @nastynockinsonofficial9023
    @nastynockinsonofficial9023 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My favorite coming out of miami now is atomic. My camera roll is full of that big ass orange 😂😂

  • @nosferatusleepaid3159
    @nosferatusleepaid3159 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rip Ynot

  • @chrisperez7852
    @chrisperez7852 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dad is does tattoo to

  • @David5.56
    @David5.56 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Part 2???

  • @kingindustries7880
    @kingindustries7880 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Do thou warn thy People before there comes to them a grievous Penalty.""

  • @magico5314
    @magico5314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These guys are toys. .... Freek Dam crew is the real god.

    • @sigilsick
      @sigilsick 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      SERGIO ESPINOSA stfu pussy

    • @magico5314
      @magico5314 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sigilsick pussy boyyyy

    • @waynejordan7473
      @waynejordan7473 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You are not from Miami these dudes are legends

    • @Smokinondeadpalms
      @Smokinondeadpalms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@waynejordan7473 I seen there tags around my spot but they are not tbh lol they can't even do straight letters they just do throw ups and tags

    • @waynejordan7473
      @waynejordan7473 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Smokinondeadpalms crook and crome have productions with fx crew

  • @cheman579
    @cheman579 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wait this is on Vice Asia...

  • @coolcarl271
    @coolcarl271 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That catwalk by my house

  • @AlexGarcia-sq8dn
    @AlexGarcia-sq8dn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like that shit ese arrival la raza

  • @diostopo7338
    @diostopo7338 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    First

  • @1indefinitetruth
    @1indefinitetruth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Yeah... “let’s cover up road & direction traffic signs, especially in busy cities” ...just screams intelligence 😒😤

    • @eliabrahamson7255
      @eliabrahamson7255 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      learn your city or use google maps dumbass

    • @spermchef2731
      @spermchef2731 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Its still dumb to cover up the signs. It takes away some convenience

    • @Smokinondeadpalms
      @Smokinondeadpalms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Those are called heaven spots

    • @thedirtybubble9613
      @thedirtybubble9613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As long as the signs are on the freeway it's okay.

  • @robertmartello9882
    @robertmartello9882 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So you're a vandal artist, right?

  • @robertmartello9882
    @robertmartello9882 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was with you till you defaced the sign on 95. How could traveles read the signs if they're all painted over?

  • @bracketbasher
    @bracketbasher 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Touch one!