Two of my favorite writers on some hardcore street level bombing shit with a soundtrack from one of my favorite electro musicians. Best thing I have seen on Youtube in a long long while!

Le Syndicat Electronique – The Men Who Killed The Beat

Horfe & Tomek getting teenage kicks

Meyhem Lauren – Got The Fever video by Tom Gould

Meyhem Lauren – Got The Fever

Hip hop today might be full of wack commercial toys, shit, some cats even say hip hop is dead. But when I hear tracks like Got The Fever from NYC’s Meyhem Lauren, I can feel good in looking them in the eye to say you don’t know shit son!

Since bursting onto the scene as a guest on J-Love’s King of What I do Vol 6 mixtape back in 2004, Meyhem Lauren aka Mey Lo has worked with cats like Kool G Rap, Ol’ Dirty Bastard (RIP), Large Professor, Cormega, M.O.P and Thirstin Howl III just to name a couple, and his upcoming street album Self Induced Illness boasts an impressive cast of guest appearances from some of hip hop’s most legit.

Got The Fever is a graffiti artists love song to the streets. A member of NYC’s infamous Smart Crew, Meyhem Lauren knows what’s up and it shows in his dope and authentic lyrics. In this age of radio hip pop wackness, Mey is rocking pure uncut rhymes for the street, saying fuck you to commercial suckers and letting real cats know loud and clear that the real shit is back.

Like a dope beat produced by Icerocks with tight rhymes from Mey Lo ain’t enough, the video clip, produced by Tom Gould is nothing less than epic: pure street level rawness with an all-star cast of some of NYC’s finest graffiti writers doing their thang on the streets of New York. Witness dudes like Marty & Dceve, Desa: Million Dollar Vandal himself, Adek and JAone out for action: rugged street bombing, trucks, throwups and tags tags tags. New York fuckin’ city baby! It doesn’t get much doper.

Oh yeah, go and cop the: Meyhem Lauren – Clarified Butter mixtape on iTunes and support a cat who is keeping it real, for real.

Official website: www.meyhemlauren.com

Meyhem Lauren – Got The Fever

My homeboy Spate hooked me up this link to Nightcrawla, a site dedicated to Philadelphia graffiti with emphasis on hardcore street bombing and Philly wickeds. Basically, some next level shit — menacing tags turning handstyles into wildstyles, even many writers find Philly tags illegible due to their complex letterforms, huge flares, tags that sometimes reach several metres high as well as smoking spliffs and brandishing butterfly knives. Heat. These cats rock can control in their tags that toys don’t even achieve in their pieces. Check it out at Nightcrawla Philadelphia Graffiti. The navigation is a bit frustrating but there is some primo shit if you can be bothered to lurk through it.

Philly’s Rasan from the late 80s and DaSaR from the mid 90s | Photos by Nightcrawla

Espo, photo by adnauseum on Flickr

Philadelphia Graffiti Handstyles

Dope Youtube video giving some insight into the Philly style plus more importantly,
hardcore street bombing action footage. Peep it!

Sydney Graffiti: Spate

The man Spate is also a fucking yob. One of the dopest bombing styles in Sydney no doubt.