How To Decipher Gang Graffiti Codes

Learn more at http://www.collectiveeye.org. A tutorial on how to understand gang graffiti symbols, handshakes, and codes, using as an example the distinction between People versus Folks in the Chicago-area gang lexicon. Excerpted from The Heart Broken in Half, an anthropological documentary about a Chicago street gang, the Latin Kings.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• graffiti
• code
• gang
• symbols
• logos
• Latin
• Kings
• folks
• people
• nation
• urban
• art
• anthropology
• documentary
• pitchfork
• crown

[sharkinX408]

THANK YOU FOR THIS USEFUL INFORMATION!!........... fag

[xerosk8]

fuck gangs gattah ruin it for the real graff artist cuz when ppl see graff they automaticly think it has to do with gangs

[OntreMuzik]

how bouts you try and decipher a JOB ?

[nukeusa911x2]

@sharkinX408 why you calling him a fag hes just trying to teach you something you dumb shit.

[LilCasper315]

u nikkas are stupid all dis shyt is simple all u people are probobally white u name some of da deep gangs da strongest gangs are da latin kings la raza SDz GDz IGz saints and da gangsta 26

[GuttaBoyGotti]

@azamatone ya...itz a white gang

[N00B2THAMAX]

BORING!!!

[FareUag]

gay lords? latin kings WTF? maybe toys crew or toy and gay hahahahaha. only toys

[acunakarlos]

@MrRipper222 wassup nigga wachu is foo!? almighty dont like nobody bitch come threw nigga chi-town crazy nigga was gud

[OnyxCode]

will you decipher the OnyxCode ...--> ₪

[Macgreez]

this is the most rediculous shit i've ever seen

[RickIgnorant]

LOL hahahahaha