"If you have a permission wall in your area (there's about three or four I can name off here in LA) it's a great place to practice."


A legal wall isnt graf its a mural. Earn your stripes doing illegal stuff and when you get good enough you can do a legal wall and call it graf. If all you do is legal shit, you dont do graf, you do murals. Its about illegal stuff, thats what it is, vandalism.



"Don't tag. That's just vandalism, and takes away from graffiti as a whole."


Tagging is a part of graf, many people consider it the most important part. You make the word vandalism sound bad or something. There are people who only do tags, legendary taggers, go buy the book all city or bomb the suburbs or the art of getting over. You hate on tags because you cant do it well, pure and simple. As long as you dont hit churchs cemetaries memorials or houses you are following the true code. I hate seeing your legal wall with a bunch of shitty tags, it shows you havent paid your dues. Your legal walls take away from graf, its supposed to be illegal. Not painting flowers on side of daycare. Call that what you want, and get paid sure, but its not graffiti. Kids should learn about the history of the art, go buy style wars, go get subway art. Go to websites like art crimes and bombing science. But dont think listening to this guy will make your art better or that you will be better graffiti artist after because you wont. The only way to get good is go out bombing, illegally. No one respects people who havent paid their dues, around here if a guy like that showed up at legal wall he would get his cans took.


"It's the only way you'll get respect."

The only way to get respect is to get up. Everywhere. Hit every spot, the more out in the open the better. If you are a toy go practice under bridge so you get good 1st. I am not even getting into the true essence of graf, ie you should rack everything, and it should be on trains, you should learn it yourself, if someone goes over you knock them out etc. Its not about making a dime either. Be in it for the love because there isnt much money.