Two thousand and seven.

This post is dedicated to all those who just dont like a bunch of rap music. Two of my favorite bands from Philly in recent years, despite what some people know about my association to any of these memebers. I really think they deserve note, not only because of their energy, but because they do what real hardcore bands are supposed to do. Or in Horrow Show's case did. First Horror Show, Songs are See you soon and Stuck again. Next and more recently, Blacklisted www.myspace.com/blacklisted , song Tourist. Not into it? Get into it.

Horrow Show

Blacklisted


R.I.P. Josh Tshirlig

Style Master Series: Part 2 of 2

I dont know what I'm doing up so late. But I've been thinking. Thinking about what makes a good writer a good artist, because sometimes they're few and far between. Here in NorDel we have a few and two come to mind right away. Easy and Pervert. I wonder how anybody could be as good and consistently as innovative as them. So I decided I need to get inside their minds. Whats a better way to find out what's on their brain other than their love and hates. So this is not the traditional, whats your name, whats your crew...But it serves just as well. Heres the Style Master Series... first of uhh, I really dont know. Enjoy - The Glamorous Lifer.

Part 2 of 2 Pervert FH

What do you love?

I love the feeling of accomplishment. Like I am doing more than what I need to do to get by, and improving on myself and what I do with every passing day. I love progress, and development, and moving forward. That’s what drives me, in everything I do. So many people just pay the bills, and have nothing to show for the time they waste every day. I love that I am nothing like that. I don’t love cans of spray paint or cds, I love productivity.

What do you hate?

I hate people that try to better their position by attempting to bring down others instead of improving themselves. Trying to push others below them instead of rising above, spending time minding the business of others when they can’t even handle their own shit. I think they could be described as "haters." I hate the hater. I’m not saying there’s a problem with knowing your position, but know your shit accurately, and act accordingly. Earn the right to act like a king by kinging it, cause you aint going to fool anybody just acting the part.

Pervert creeping in your bedroom.

Style Master Series: Part 1 of 2

I dont know what I'm doing up so late. But I've been thinking. Thinking about what makes a good writer a good artist, because sometimes they're few and far between. Here in NorDel we have a few and two come to mind right away. Easy and Pervert. I wonder how anybody could be as good and consistently as innovative as them. So I decided I need to get inside their minds. Whats a better way to find out what's on their brain other than their love and hates. So this is not the traditional, whats your name, whats your crew...But it serves just as well. Heres the Style Master Series... first of uhh, I really dont know. Enjoy - The Glamorous Lifer.



Part 1 of 2 Easy B2B



What do you love?

I love writing alone. I love good color schemes. I think they’re almost equally as important to a piece as the letter structure. I love trains, I think about them 24/7. Everything about them, from color schemes, to types of cars, to benching, just everything about them. I honestly think I’d be completely bored with graffiti aside from freights.
Regina Spektor I love her! All kinds of art, it can be interpreted into inspiration for my writing, pop art especially. I flip through art history books and websites all the time. Eating sushi makes you a better graffiti writer, I think all the kids need to know that.





What do you hate?

I hate alot of the things I love. I question why I do things all the time, especially graffiti.
Sometimes I think it’s completely stupid that I get so excited about freight trains and writing my name on them, but I convince myself that it doesn’t matter because it’s what I like. I hate TV. You won’t catch me watching it. I just don’t like it. Anytime I sit down to watch TV I feel like I’ve completely wasted my time, so I stopped. Plus being homeless for a while and not having one got me used to not watching it so now I just don’t. I’m pretty content being back to not having a cellphone. I think some people try to ride coat tails and some get more credit than they deserve for the little amount of work they do and to me that’s corny. I don’t really agree with it, I wouldn’t say I’m mad at them for it. I just feel like a lot of kids who "write" around here aren’t really "writers" if that makes any sense. I don’t think it should be a surprise hearing someone painted something new, its not a once-a-month deal if your into it. I don’t know if it’s a lack of motivation in kids around here or what. Maybe its just a lack of kids actually down for writing. It’s just not something i see much around here. That’s how me and Myne got hooked up. He was just down for writing plus driving around seeing bad graffiti is annoying to me. I hate all those stupid fancy caps that kids think they need to do good graffiti. I love NY thins, you don’t need anything else. Oh and I hate the bar. Doesn’t matter how many trains you do it still sucks.



Easy Rocking out.

The Life Expectancy of a Tagger

is very short from what I hear. One good run for two years will get you by. Better yet if you write for one year, go hard and make a post on the internet of all your stuff, you'll be up 10x harder. But honestly when you consider "Life Expectancy" you have to consider all the factors that go into it, like high blood pressure, working conditions, maybe diseases that run in your family. So in this case, we'll look at family pressure, school/work pressure, age and the ever popular raid on your belongings! So as writers cycle in and cycle out. How do we know whos who and whats what anymore. Some writers like to drop reminders here and there that their 15 minutes of fame isnt up, others like to tell stories about their's. I prefer the ones who do the first of the two. But who am I to pull cards. I can't say short lived, because the life expectancy varies on these two.

mean w jahe dumpster mugging wilm, de. 2006

I wish Big Punisher was still alive so Fat Joe didn't suck so bad. This was taken off of myspace, not the original beat, but whoever did the beat absolutely held it down. Pay attention if you want do a remix, do it proper.
"...until I'm locked or shot down, Heather B couldn't make me put my glock down"

THE GLAMOROUS LIFE ZINE OUT!!

In stores...eerrr I mean in the street and other avenues.

Moist $ Vapor

Ekon vs. Taker

Naadir $ Imp

Bad Luxury

YouTube Rappers

Issue 1 out now. Talk to your boys if you dont have one. They know where it is, since I dont have any stores. Please if you want to make contributions dont make any admissions, just photo contributions are appreciated. Delaware, 610 and Philly. Right now this is going to be where the majority of my documentation is recorded. Hit me up.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. ALL FIRST ISSUES AND REPRINTS ARE NOW SOLD OUT.

theglamorouslifer@gmail.com

War Waged on Graffiti!!! Extra Extra!!!

Oh wait this is nothing new. Military minds agree we are in a new generation of warfare that is different from the line and column, machinegun and artillery, tanks and aircraft or terrorism. This is a warfare of ideologies. In order to be successful you have to directly attack the minds of the enemies.

Enough chat. Old video. One of my favorites on youtube right now.

Chic Raw get em cannon.

SOUTH BRIDGE!! SOUTH SOUTH BRIDGE!!

Stock RHBT

We have the internet, magazines and whatever else you can think of to look at graffiti. This is the present. But what was graffiti like in Delaware with no old heads, no magazines and no internet? I'm talking real destruction. What was going on in Wilmington, mainly Eastside, Southbridge and Riverside? RHBT was. That side of Wilmington was killed back in the day much like the suburbs are starting to get bombed today. Noticable names such as Burst, Wize aka Raph. Let me introduce you to a world, long buffed and hidden from the prying eyes of cops, haters, online graff-vigilantes and toys. They invented their own toss styles and piece styles far more than what some kids do today. Peace.

Old Piecing Spot, Southbridge

From Left: Rukus, Burst Toss, Burst, Southbridge

Burst "On this wall I will live forever"

Style should progress not digress. Look at the way the letters connect and the color blends. Also take a look at the crisp outlines. One thing you should know is that Burst never did his actual pieces with anything but stock caps. The above outline is obviously a fat, but that is for the most part an exception. These done by guys in the hood with no magazines, no internet just an eye for what was going on on the walls around Wilmington, New Castle, Chester and Philadelphia. One last reminder to tell you to step your styles up and I am out of here. RHBT, Wize..King Burst. Whats good!

Above: Burst keeps it electronic , Below: Raph rocks the Rican Flag

The Glamorous Life

Just in case you don't know , the name of this blog is ripped directly off one of my favorite songs from back in the day. A Rapper named Cool C from Hilltop, (Philadelphia) came out with this song and it was played 50 times a day on Power 99. The rest of this is stolen:
On January 2 1996, during the same time period that he was recording a comeback EP Cool C, along with C.E.B. band mate Steady B, and another local Philadelphia rapper, Mark Canty, attempted a hold up at a PNC bank branch in Philadelphia. During the botched heist, Philadelphia Police Officer, Lauretha Vaird, who responded to the bank's silent alarm, was shot and killed by Cool C. As he exited the bank, Cool C exchanged fire with another police officer who had also responded to the bank's alarm, before he and Canty dropped their weapons at the scene and fled in a stolen minivan driven by Steady B.
Officer Vaird, a black woman and the single mother of two children, was the first female Philadelphia Police officer killed in the line of duty.
Roney was arrested and on October 30 1996, convicted of the first degree murder of Officer Vaird. At his subsequent sentencing hearing, Cool C was sentenced to death by lethal injection. On January 10th 2006 his death warrant was signed by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and his execution date was set for March 9th 2006. He was granted a stay of execution from Pennsylvania Judge Gary Glazer on February 1st 2006 until all post-conviction litigation is resolved.
Cool C has steadfastly maintained his innocence throughout the trial and appeals process, despite the trial testimony of three eyewitnesses who placed him at the scene of the robbery, as well as ballistic and forensic evidence that linked him to the murder of Officer Vaird. He is currently an inmate at Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Greene.

SAR AND MOCO.

If you ask some oldheads they'll tell you forget them guys. But if you ask the other 90% of people they'll tell you they got up. I dont really know where they're from...But I'll tell you Newport/Elsmere area. I remember seeing the Moco.com on the back of the Pep Boys and it lived for ever. Banging! Also a bunch of practice Moco tags on the back of the now Value City. Sar was solidified when I bumped into a Sar tag perfectly positioned in the middle of the most random spot in Wilmington. Sar and Moco official tag team. Enough rap. Quit fronting unless you got the longevity of these two.

Long time no speak....

We came down onto the tracks looking for something to do, bored and wanted some pictures. The first time I saw these there was not anything around them. As time went on and more and more people wanted to be writers and taggers and whatever...these characters done by GER got dissed.This is one part of graffiti, GER has a part two and part three later on. Stay tuned!

oh and peace to them young boys that posed for me, peep the Vapor and EVOL (LOVE).

DJ PREMIER SALUTES JAMES BROWN

Essential James Brown tribute mix from the one and only DJ Premier of Gang Starr, covers two eras of the Godfather of Soul - disc one focusing on his classics, and disc two focusing on the classic hip-hop songs that have sampled him. Includes classics from Superlover Cee & Casanova Rud, NWA, Big Daddy Kane, Eric B. and Rakim, Kool G. Rap and DJ Polo, The D.O.C., LL Cool J, Run DMC, Lord Finesse, EPMD, Stetsasonic, Kool Moe Dee, Brand Nubian, Craig G, Public Enemy, Jungle Brothers, Gang Starr (!), Biz Markie, KRS-One, Notorious BIG, and more
Get it before its gone.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3I1ZD8QQ

Grand G Southbridge 1989

i stole this like i do most things

plus he's a glasgow high alumni, G G G G HIGH!

KWEST FEC SM

....and we're off! It's been a great year so far huh guys? I mean almost all of us are still alive and the sun is still shining. What couldn't be better? Somebody told me you were dumb and couldn't read, but I don't believe the hype. You might be dumb and dont know how to read, there's a difference. The next case study involves Kwest, no graffiti role models, no fat caps. Just raw DE graffiti influenced by the friends around him and later the walls around him. Most of you were probably still in t-ball getting your little league photos taken when this guy was wearing backpacks the wrong way into stores and shoveling piles of paint into his pouch. Smashed routes is what that rap was about.

more: http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s147/theglamlife/2nd001.jpg

I miss good rap. Peep this.
http://www.onfumes.com/portal/90s/90sDetail/tabid/88/Default.aspx?vID=87ykmKT1b1AiPbs70fzDTWaOA0oT7Akn

Day One and a half.

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Look Closely. Mad Dash One Roof Richardson Park. Cobalt Toss Richardson Park. Anybody remember some of the younger kids from RP? 50 pts. to whoever can name the most.

Day One

Halloween. My outfits were always so cheap. Other kids would have crazy getups like full body outfits and the plastic bib Charlie Brown and Mr. Potato Head costumes from the Pathmark on Lancaster. I had a Heman monster mask. Being broke and not planning for halloween will do that to you. But I always had a good time, I wasnt out to impress any pedefiles and other bad little kids. I just wanted the candy. This was 1985 on 3rd St. Wilmington DE. Believe it or not, two years later I caught my first tag with my cousin. We wrote "Rasheim and Rashawn" real big in gold paint off of Cleveland Ave. We didn't know what we were doing at the time, but we saw the tags around the city and they provoked us. I don't think I need to elaborate on the fact we got beat for that one. I didn't want to be a criminal I wanted to be a cop. I wanted to ride around like the Dukes of Hazard (minus the rebel flag) and chase badguys down like Miami Vice, Airwolf, and MacGuyver. I'm getting off track. Damn, that mask was crazy.

I remember all types of stuff that no longer exists in Wilmington. Alot of the earlier photos I took all found their way on the internet and thank god. Because I never saw them again. Alot of older tags have now been cleaned and I since deleted all the photos I once had, bought new computers, and just somehow lost them. Theres stuff I wish I documented, like the 6ft tall BAM wickett off of Lancaster AVE. Hilltop or the RDStar, COD, Burst, and Said slams right off 4th st. on the I-95 underpass pillars. They were really dope, at the top of the fence right at the intersection. Graff is a very impressionable subject matter.

Above Elsmere, Cant get no respect, Bam piece, Moco Toss above, Where's Derm? Down to the left. Below Southbridge, Slick CBS, Burst RHBT main partner. Keep your head up.