On This date in 2019, graffiti icon Michael Lawrence Marrow aka True Mathematics Allah aka PHASE 2 passed away in his hometown of NYC from complications of Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 64 Years Old.

Hidden behind Iowa corn and soybean fields is a hip-hop and arts festival that aims to show diversity in music, art and ...

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Art is what Cey Adams has been producing since he was a teenager growing up in Queens. But, it wasn’t always seen that way. “That's the problem with labels. If there was no such thing as graffiti, ...

Over the course of the next couple of days, Fitz Books will play host to a graffiti exhibition by Crime on Friday, and then Vibe Garden (learn more) will set up shop on Saturday. In preparation for ...

The memoir examines how Freddy helped bridge the worlds of graffiti art, music, film, and fashion during hip-hop’s formative years. Hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy recently appeared in Atlanta for a ...

In the month leading up to the opening of The Art of Hip-Hop, Wynwood’s latest museum honoring the genre, the photographer has built a small-scale record store, scoured his closet for ephemera and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONG STORY SHORT: The Original Beatnik Chick “Since graffiti first broke out, NYPD has always had some form of the Vandal Squad.

As director of the first hip-hop movie, “Wild Style,” Charlie Ahearn needed a fresh way to brand his indie film to appeal to a world that wasn’t yet hip to the cultural movement, born in the South ...

On this date six years ago, the graffiti world and the entire Hip Hop community lost one of its most influential pioneers. Michael Lawrence Marrow, better known as True Mathematics Allah and globally ...