From the NewYorkTimes:
“Back in 1992, Mark Lawrence, a spraycan artist who had been doing graffiti since he was a child in the Bronx River Projects, founded Color Cru in upstate New York. Back then, he wasn't earning money for it.”
“I was doing a lot of walls, a lot of trains, in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn,” he recalled. “It was a culture. If you were doing graffiti, you were doing break dancing, and you rapped.”
"He now has stores in Brooklyn, Harlem and the Bronx and graffiti-inspired advertising is his staple. He also decorates shoes and jackets at prices from $18 to several hundred dollars."
"He gets orders from abroad, too, in London, portraits of the murdered rapper Biggie Smalls are popular; in Japan, the dead singer Aaliyah is all the rage. Unable to meet demand alone, he now has seven artists working for him.”
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