Tuesday's Underground Lowdown

We just dropped another video this week. For those that are behind, we now have a different youtube channel.  Check it and subscribe!

Wu Wednesday

Speaking of Benefit, check out this dope collab with Matisyahu, Benefit, Kyon Williams and Mr. Green. It's a really dope YouTube account and recommend a subscribe.

From the videos descrption,

"For this episode we wanted to do something  different, so Sam and I set it off by meeting up with Matisyahu in NYC. He's been crazy busy touring all over the place, but he was cool enough to chill with us for a few minutes, lay down a dope verse and do some beat-boxing.

After that, I took his vocals back to the lab, threw some effects on them and put a beat together. 

Next, we traveled out to Philly to get my former beat-making student Kyon Williams to
play some piano (FYI I used to do an after school program called "beat school" at University City High School in West Philly). 

It was crazy, I had a melody in my head, I sang it to him, and then within five minutes he had already laid it down perfectly. 

Then, I took the piano parts Kyon played back to the lab and mixed them into the beat.  Finally, I took the full beat and sent it to my homie Benefit.

We are mad excited to have Benefit on the show because he's an underground legend and one of the first artists in history to use the internet to spread his music across the globe.  He hasn't dropped any thing in a minute and we are really proud that he chose to use 'Live from the Streets' as his platform to make a comeback.

Be on the lookout for more Benefit x Mr. Green collabs in the future as well as Benefit's upcoming self produced solo album.

I also want to take this time to announce that in 2014 we will be dropping an official "Live from the Streets" album featuring the songs from all of our best episodes along with some
surprises and extra stuff nobody has heard yet. 

Thank you for watching so far, we aren't even close to finished, -Green"

Tuesday's Underground Lowdown

Ha-ha, seriously!  This is great! We want more! Graffiti fails and chases are really entertaining, well as long as it's not you getting chased. This is only part 1 so we can't wait to see what else they got coming.  This was professionally put together and highly recommend as it's only a few minutes long and will leave you wanting more.

(8.5 out of 10)

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Dope video of some South African clean trains on the Metrol Rail in Cape Town City.  The video description bosts that it's "in fact the first first graffiti whole train in Africa!!" Featuring the following graffiti writers, Blak, Wer, Sure, Ink, Slate, Toe, Name, Raze. A very short and to the point of benching these whole cars.  We love a more put together video of action shots and 'b-role' and finished product but you just cant front on a whole car, not to mention a whole train of whole car's. The track by Richard The Third, but we recognize that maybe this isn't our taste of music, doesn't mean it's not yours and shouldn't hurt the overall rating.

(6.5 out of 10)

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Definitely a dope DVD for the freight writer, has everything a freight writer would want to see. It drags at times, especially at the action scenes, but once you fast forward through those times it picks up again. At 1hour and 42min running time, you def get your money's worth. This video was definitely made by freight writers for freight writers.  Made back in 2004 it does show its age given we now have widescreens and 4k video; however, it doesnt take away from its legendary status and relevance today.  Features some live action painting and train hopping with KWEST and SENSR, and a hobo interview with Malachi aka ''RIDE HARD RETARD''.  YouTube description brags that "this film had worldwide distribution with over 7,800 copies being sold." A real dope original soundtrack mixed by SOE1 throughout the video

(7.5 out of 10)

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Graffiti Verite' 5 -  A real breath of fresh air when it comes to a graffiti documentary. Not just another video of the same couple of dudes bombing and boring you. This video takes place in a town in Iowa that you probably never heard of which maybe will lose some of its interest but the attitudes and opinions remind me a lot of those of early hip-hop. Very entertaining with a different perspective on the graffiti documentary genre. 


(7 out of 10)

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We won't rate our own video.. however we did want to share it on here.  Hope you enjoy!

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Terror in the Burbs

A hardcore soundtrack was the best thing about this video. It was ok with an original concept but lacked and needed quicker action scenes, I mean there's only so long you can watch someone else paint and be entertained. It did showcase some dope writers and some dope pieces but lagged at times but otherwise was just ok.

(4.5 out of 10)

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We met TASTE a few years back and he's a real nice dude who is amazingly talented!  This Molotow train car has been painted by only the best!  This piece is pure fire and nothing less than what you'd expect.  We appreciate the commentary that TASTE gives and can't believe he doens't use a sketch.  Shows how truly talented he is that he can do such dope burners off the top of his head.  He describes that the name should already be in your blood which should ring true on any real writer.

(10 out of 10)

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...honestly, what can we say about this video, ha-ha!  We are not about to express any political opinions, however, you have to have a good sense of humor during this crazy political season.  It's very clear how the people of Indecline will be voting this November.  Even if you strongly disagree with Indecline and their thoughts on Trump... you can't deny they kill it and is funny at the same time.

(8 out of 10)

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Relatively a new upload featuring live bombing in Oakland, California.  Mainly featuring night time bombing but a few day time spots which is fresh!  An interesting choice of music as it changes up genres but is a good mix.  Black and white throughout which doesn't hurt or help.  Pemex, Sori, Ideal are the only artists feature and look like they killed the city!  Decent video, worth a few minutes to watch.

(6 out of 10)

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Quality of Life 

An indie film that really tries to bring the audience into the life of a graffiti artist and the subculture. It was really well done, professional and cinematic. This is the first graffiti themed indie film that I've seen that is done right. We thought that both of the main characters, 'Heir' and 'Vain' really capture your average writers personal lives and evolution of their graffiti career with one taking his talent somewhere while the other kind of bums around. The ending was a little over dramatic but helped to complete the movie. We did enjoy watching a graffiti themed movie and recommend this for anyone who is tired of poorly put together documentary and just want to watch a straight movie.

(4 out of 10)

Tuesdays Underground Lowdown

This isn't our typical review of a full production video.  However this is a video we came across and as far as benching videos go... this is alright!  We respect the fact that putting together ANY video takes a lot of time and effort.  At the same time, benching freights isnt as easy as setting up a camera and recording for a few hours.  Well, sometimes if youre lucky.  However, most benching videos is usually cherry picked to one's own liking of certain styles, etc.  This video seems to be a little unbiased and isn't shaky or bad angles.  Shot up in Canada, a lot of rolling stock with a decent soundtrack throughout!  Enjoy!

(8 out of 10)

Thursday's Underground Lowdwon - UTAH & ETHER week

Dope video of UTAH & ETHER's #probationvacation Lost in Asia.  This video was episode 6 in their installment but this time they were in the Philippines.  Like the rest, this short video doesn't disappoint.  We're not sure what it is but you definitely feel the rush as you watch these.  Perhaps its knowing that in most of these places if you get caught you hope a few hundred lashings all you get. 'Probation Vacation' has been entertaining as hell to watch.

UTAH & ETHER - PROBATION VACATION: LOST IN ASIA (Episode 6 - Philippines) from The Grifters on Vimeo.

(7 out of 10)

Tuesday's Underground Lowdown

Piece By Piece was not like any other graffiti video we've seen.  A really well organized video on the history of graffiti in San Francisco that goes back to the early 80's. This is a true documentary and entertaining with the professionalism that could be comparable to the classic film, Style Wars.

You don't have to be from or live in the bay area to appreciate or be entertained by this documentary. From the interviews of the artists who lived it; it was really informative and gave it to you straight. The directors really did do a good job at capturing the graffiti mentality and stayed structured in the different eras within the bay area's graffiti subculture. This is a pretty ill video for any writer or just someone who's interested in this criminal but highly artistic art form.


(9 out of 10)

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This spotlight video with Jesusaves and put together by Bazookafilms77 is pretty dope.  Short quick video, just over three minutes but its about quality not quantity right?  Awesome action shots on a rooftop then hitting a freight hopper.  Bazookafilms77 do a good job putting together their videos and we've posted them on our Tuesday Underground Lowdown before.  We just had one question, where's the daytime shot of the rooftop?

Music by Post Malone which is pretty good and fits this video.

(7.5 out of 10)

Tuesdays Underground Lowdown

We found this as a draft, something we started last September... Dont remember why this was never completed but here it is.  A video put together by Oink Art and their Fresh Paint featuring ANEMAL.  Some awesome and serious action footage.  A short video of ANEMAL and friends going HARD!

Anemal X Fresh Paint #4 from Oink Art LTD on Vimeo.

(8.5 out of 10)

Tuesday Underground Lowdown

Just some classic 90s footage of New York City's MTA Scrapyard.  Classics like, IZ the Wiz, Revolt, Cycle, Skeme, Zephyr and more!  Dope inside and outside footage of just bombed out cars.

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Fresh look at what we have recently stumbled upon as a thing.  We all want to go into the tunnels like those of the 70s and 80s and paint panels and whole cars.  However with the improvement of todays technology, capturing the look and feel of the MTA tunnels is something else.

Tuesdays Underground Lowdown

Heres a little footage out of Sweden with some writers from SBR crew hitting a clean train.  Brief but to the point with some dope pieces.  Enjoy! 

(7 out of 10)