Risking it all for a tag on a train. What an amazing experience it must have been. God bless all of the lost souls who tagged NYC during the 1970s. My favorite artist was CLIFF! I was able to track down some artists still alive today and asked them what happened to him. Only one replied. He died of AIDs during the 1980s epidemic. RIP Cliff.
Love this, the creators and originators. The pioneers of this culture we call writing. Rest in Paradise to all the legends not here with us today, we will never forget...........
Top notch!!! Should be hundreds of thousands of followers on here. Says a lot about shit that there ain't. Like it or not,,they all followers. Love the history,,the ROOTS. God bless you and everyone out there living it.
TRACY 168 KING IS VERY MUCH ALIVE MY LADY GREW UP WITH HIM IN KINGSBRIDGE AND SHE RAN INTO HIM A FEW MONTHS BACK! HE DEFINITELY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN STYLE WARS FROM THE GATE! STILL WORLD-WIDE LOVE ❤️ APPRECIATED ALL THE WAY FROM PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND KING! BTW-DENISE SAYS🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽💯💯💯🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽!BLESSINGS TO THOSE WHO SACRIFICED TO GRAFF ALIVE AND TRANSITIONED ON..❤❤❤❤ BX IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN!
IM FROM 196 GR CONCOURSE ,TRACY 168 GAVE ME MY NAME BACK N DA DAYS , I USED TO RUN BEHIND THIS DUDE IN WILDSTYLE NAMED BOZ SO TRACY WOULD CALL ME JOZ I HATED IT AT FIRST BUT I STILL GOT THE NAME, MY TWO SONS MIDDLE NAME IS JOZ I HATED TRACY BACK IN THE DAYS CAUSE I WAS WAYYYY TO YOUNG TO GO HANG WITH THEM AND TRACY WOULDNT LET ME SMOKE GET HIGH ,,LOOKING BACK ON IT NOW I THANK THE SHIT OUT OF HIM FOR THAT TRACY 168 IS DOPENESS BOMB LEGACY...JOZIMPERIAL ....BX IN AZ
met him a couple years ago when i was 16, didn’t know who he was before then. he told me stories about his youth, and as a fellow kid from the bronx, i was so interested. real cool, down to earth guy, hope we cross paths again.
Great little video....I wonder if these guys realise how many people this has influenced all over the world?!! Its amazing if you really think about it, I cant think of any other youth culture that has influenced and took part by so many!
Thank you for explaining the street history to the younger people who don't really know anything about it . Does Michael Tracy have any upcoming shows. Hopefully he does. If anybody knows can they please post dates of the shows and locations . Thank you
I only know this time from the movies or clips. How was the time for the writters? Were the trains guarded, it was difficult to get to them at all, or there was no guard and everything was easy to "bomb"?
Does anyone know if the Tracy 168 on the dark brick is near yankee stadium also what years did the legends yosemite sam piece on the back of the train run from if any one knows answer ty
Risking it all for a tag on a train. What an amazing experience it must have been. God bless all of the lost souls who tagged NYC during the 1970s.
My favorite artist was CLIFF! I was able to track down some artists still alive today and asked them what happened to him. Only one replied. He died of AIDs during the 1980s epidemic. RIP Cliff.
❤❤❤❤train
Write in heaven and let the old trains run through the clouds, Tracy 168.
Nice throw back. I rode those trains for many years. From the sixties through the ninties, Serious memories. Thanks Fam.
Rest in peace to a king 👑
Love this, the creators and originators. The pioneers of this culture we call writing. Rest in Paradise to all the legends not here with us today, we will never forget...........
Real art 💎
❤.
This footage is gold
Top notch!!! Should be hundreds of thousands of followers on here. Says a lot about shit that there ain't. Like it or not,,they all followers. Love the history,,the ROOTS. God bless you and everyone out there living it.
Jesse James tavern wowwww. Old school
TRACY 168 KING IS VERY MUCH ALIVE MY LADY GREW UP WITH HIM IN KINGSBRIDGE AND SHE RAN INTO HIM A FEW MONTHS BACK! HE DEFINITELY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN STYLE WARS FROM THE GATE! STILL WORLD-WIDE LOVE ❤️ APPRECIATED ALL THE WAY FROM PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND KING! BTW-DENISE SAYS🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽💯💯💯🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽!BLESSINGS TO THOSE WHO SACRIFICED TO GRAFF ALIVE AND TRANSITIONED ON..❤❤❤❤ BX IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN!
TRACY 168 one of the greatest writer's out there today !!!
IM FROM 196 GR CONCOURSE ,TRACY 168 GAVE ME MY NAME BACK N DA DAYS , I USED TO RUN BEHIND THIS DUDE IN WILDSTYLE NAMED BOZ SO TRACY WOULD CALL ME JOZ I HATED IT AT FIRST BUT I STILL GOT THE NAME, MY TWO SONS MIDDLE NAME IS JOZ
I HATED TRACY BACK IN THE DAYS CAUSE I WAS WAYYYY TO YOUNG TO GO HANG WITH THEM AND TRACY WOULDNT LET ME SMOKE GET HIGH ,,LOOKING BACK ON IT NOW I THANK THE SHIT OUT OF HIM FOR THAT TRACY 168 IS DOPENESS
BOMB LEGACY...JOZIMPERIAL ....BX IN AZ
good story. you should write down some of this stuff, this is the ancient origins right here. my mom is from 188th and the concourse
Rare Fire👑
met him a couple years ago when i was 16, didn’t know who he was before then. he told me stories about his youth, and as a fellow kid from the bronx, i was so interested. real cool, down to earth guy, hope we cross paths again.
Great little video....I wonder if these guys realise how many people this has influenced all over the world?!! Its amazing if you really think about it, I cant think of any other youth culture that has influenced and took part by so many!
Damn he brought back a lot of my old stomping ground,shhyt I graduated from Walton h.s.
Truly a great piece of history gere. Well done.
Have to say that Queens in those days had their share of Graffiti writers . Not mention them I caught on to the game late 70's.
R.I.P. .......🕯️.........TRACY 168 WS
Woo Woo Wild Style.
Thank you for explaining the street history to the younger people who don't really know anything about it . Does Michael Tracy have any upcoming shows. Hopefully he does. If anybody knows can they please post dates of the shows and locations . Thank you
One Love ☝🏽
R.I.P. 🤍🕯️🙏🏽
MY MENTOR TRACY 168 …1973 MACE ONE…..THX FOR KEEPIN IT REAL
WEV WERE NOT HIP HOP SUM OF US ..only transition
Tracy once told me he had a partner named RC
i want to see more....i know theres more...tracy told me!!!!
HISTORY as explained by the Master Baster!
My favorite peice, by you, was the silhouette gangster, at Nicky's Pizza; in Bainbridge. Seeing your work, truly inspired me.
So good. Thanks for the fantastic footage and information
Useful! Thanks!
I was about 2-3yrs old when Tracy was getting getting up 10yrs later I was bombing London big up da sas crew u no who u r
I love graffiti!. ❤😮😂🎉. Its an everyday celebration. Peace. !.
Real talk right here ! Great footage of the early days of graffiti and the role it played in hip hop
@Tracy168ws- Ur the man Duke!
This is beautiful...
Kingsbridge Armory!!!!!
So fresh
Thanks for this..love seening the legends
Cheech Wizard 22 the song is the Dramatics - " whatcha see is whatcha get"
Never Seen before so Great thanks for da influence ....
0:04 they have that in Kingsbridge but the paint is coming off
real funky brotha!!! look what you did to the earth, you made it beautiful!
RIP KING
Tracy I’m remembering 1982 you and iz were all city. Amazing you had the wherewithal to document this on 8 mm film.
IZ maybe but not TRACY, 1982 TRACY was rarely doing trains, you sure you don't mean 72??? 1982 IZ was definitely all City.
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I only know this time from the movies or clips.
How was the time for the writters? Were the trains guarded, it was difficult to get to them at all, or there was no guard and everything was easy to "bomb"?
Legendary!
where are the videos from?
true kings live 4 ever !
COOL G RAPP layout man and sound track, now look at me
😎👊
wow
Resto Y Paz T R A C Y 168 L$D Crew. Love Ya's.....
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Does anyone know if the Tracy 168 on the dark brick is near yankee stadium also what years did the legends yosemite sam piece on the back of the train run from if any one knows answer ty
Kool Herc painted subways?
Anyone got the name of the song in the background?
THE DRAMATICS ... WHATCHA SEE IS WHATCHA GET ' SOUL ' THIS IS ONE OF THE COOLEST SOUNDS FROM THE 70'S UNTIL !
- PEACE TO ALL - PRO SOUL165 TRACY 168
(Safe Passage)
He didn't. Long live the king.
how did he ded
he's not dead as of three weeks ago when i hung out with him and it's 2020
@@ornamentalyouth i met him a couple years ago and he was telling me about all the death hoaxes there have been about him lol
Graffiti has nothing to do with hip hop!!!!