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Cornbread, the Godfather of Graffiti

As a kid, Darryl McCray started writing "Cornbread loves Cynthia" all over his Philadelphia school to get the attention of a girl he liked. He then expanded all over the city with his tag, simply, ...  
 
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juako37 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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N.P

NORTH PHILLY BABE
Daized2009 (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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J Narr Is as much of a legend, cornz a ruffneck, he put street art on the map (but in my opinion it could have been a number of others that could have done the same thing...) but no dis-respect. Kinda feel like he sold out at the end but eh. 'Pain' has a point too, if you look back graf is in everyones blood, from caves to modern man... it's just progressing more & more nowerdays & there's some art out there worthy of takin Rembrant off the map.
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i mean like.. i dont know man..graffiti is what ever you want it to be. corn bread,seen and taki 183 where truely the 1st real writers. but it doesnt matter now graffiti is world wide and its not gonna stop. ever since cave men left there legacy on walls its been around and all where doing is leaveing are mark in society, and history were just leaveing a legacy let us express are selfs freely and get up. for all the true writers out there just keep your heads high and stay up man. peace -pain-
roscoe68100 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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I do remember thinking that he had died...but then again,I remember thinking that about Richard Pryor too.lol
LIFEIZTOOLTOOLIZLIFE (2 months ago) Show Hide
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iii ReMember him DIEing - SEEing,KNOWing dat he did - Prior to his Prior PRY-OR...'death'
sigh. *Glitch*z in the *Matrix* FO SHO!
roscoe68100 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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I think the question is...is that the real cornbread.
LIFEIZTOOLTOOLIZLIFE (2 months ago) Show Hide
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or...did CornBread Die? Will he die - again? DiiiD we All jist see/watch the Same...Vid? muahahahahahaHA
roscoe68100 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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OH YA,Cornbread's been here awhile.Havnt you seen his old 60's 70's stuff?It is possible for many people to be the first.(ridin the psycic hiway)but ya pretty much since tha dawn of man...I guess u could say graff is the first artform.
WrathOfDemons (2 months ago) Show Hide
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ok for one i just looked up and found were taggin started n it started with gangs not no corn bread so fuck u u call me a toy to hide yer garbageness
GoldHipHop1 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Im from this ime im a hiphop oldhead....whats wrong with writers that don know there history

History in hiphop in graff.....they just want to write bullcrap

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