0:00 I heard a rumor swear to God that Joe's a tagger shut up Steve that's what I heard I heard I didn't say it I don't know dude he's a writer I don't know graffiti artist okay I don't know oh fck can you real quick put that over your shoulder other no put on your shoulder but like you're depressed you're like be depressed that's [Laughter] him oh so good all right so uh we're going to play this little video right here everybody basically is going to know what this is yay visual point of view everybody seen this everybody know what this guy is what is it Nick what is it I don't know I don't know what this is I know what that is oh it's in La it's Los Angeles there the crypto Center building next to it so those supposed to be highrises the wonder tower what's it
0:51 called the Oceanside ones Oceanside Tower a ████ was building it oceanwide and then he ran out of money oo and then he's said all sry can I tell you my true thoughts on it please when I see it makes me sad because it makes it to me it's like a symbol of where La is going feel like it's dying exactly and it's like complete lawlessness and then you have a rampant ████ this vandalization of very expensive things and then I see people like glorify it like oh check this out F art dude and I'm like no your city's fing part you ████ idiot that's how I feel about it I see a lot of like you know people like like putting it on yeah Sting to the man I'm like no this is your ████ City you dumb ████ okay I'm just going to push back on that okay fine when I was in Middle School we had a tree that we called the gum tree and everybody just
1:41 took their gum and they put it on the tree until like the tree was like completely covered in gum that's and then one day the administrators of the school they were like we got to get rid of the gum trees it's like a health hazard and like that cuz kids are licking it sometimes out of dares fair fair fair but to us it was like no that's our tree it's a gum tree it's our it's a part of history now it was it was already there was a tree and then we ruined it and it's our tree so now you know it's kind of like cool and um I you know and that's the way I justify that even though I don't really believe it it is kind of cool well why why don't they just like scrape off the gum and let the kids restart like a new generation of gum I know why they have to get the whole treat I'm not lame like you guys so but I also fight with myself a lot and then um the the I was a
2:31 graffiti artist so ████ you guys cuz that part of my 14-year-old self goes wow that one of the most epic bombs I've ever seen you guys pulled off it's like pulling off a heist you called a bomb they're called bombs here we go with the graph ter the gra he just says it like it's did a good job he used to be a writer remember they're called ████ writers not taggers godamn it all right taggers are ████ lame toys that's whack okay but I went like this and I said good job because if I was 13 I would look at that and say wow they ████ won are you not saying that now at your age today no but my older self I'm almost 40 remember that okay okay remember that not though almost in a couple of months I'm like 39.9 almost okay and then I look at that and I go oh you know I feel really bad
3:23 for the guy who invested in this and he had a dream and he was probably like going to show his wife like look it we got a building hunt I built this and then he it got he Lo he ran out of money cuz he's Chinese and then it's not doing so well in China he's Chinese cuz in China the real estate crashed so that he was a real estate investor and it's not doing so well so was it a singular guy with a dream or was it a it was a guy in his crew called a corporation pretty sure it's a corporation it's his crew it's his crew it was a Chinese investor in his company his crew China based oceanwide Holdings I told you cuz I I've heard the dreamation the vision here's a really funny idea though 30 guys with 30 Dreams A A lot of people were saying but look at this building like it's such an eyesore because it's like unfinished
4:13 it's an unfinished building they just sitting there in the middle of nowhere so tag it up so they look at it like it's almost like this weird anti like almost like a society empowerment move to tag it up but then why are you writing your own name man like it's for you you ████ idiot like let's not let's not is that what it is when they're tagging it up they write their crew and they write their Alias okay and that's how you get famous is you're known for your art it's like being a Banky yeah it's a Banky it's like everyone knows everyone knows did Banky ever tag Banky well I mean like he's a he's not actually in the scene like as a graffiti artist he's just like he's doing stencil he's doing things I mean yeah it's fine but it's different from the actual you have different Crews it's not hardcore huh you're trying to and then you battle it out with other Crews who has the most paintings and then if you have a painting up and they cross it out that means it's not even
5:03 there I heard this rumor I don't know if this is true if you heard anything like this but this one Urban Explorer guy was saying that that building was built on a permit that was not initially allowed through corruption they got the permit and built the building and it wasn't that they ran out of funding but that uh like something went wrong with their agreement so the permit the permitting said can't build until you give me more money yeah they're saying that there was a speed bump in their agreement that should have never happened and that's the real truth of why the building didn't get finished but I don't know that's true I heard a rumor swear to God that Joe's a tagger shut up Steve that's what I heard I heard I didn't say it I don't knower dude he's a rer I don't know graffiti artist okay I don't know oh ████ so the city is to pay nearly $4
5:54 million for the oceanwide graffiti removal now which means that comes from our p no way the city has to do it why how much 4 million 3.8 million but it's not even is it city property because they seized it how much of that is in their pocket though how much does it really cost oh yeah contractors I know had a baby why can't they just pay one tager to cover it all up in one color they agreed to a lot 3.8 million to clean up and secure the site so I mean you're right dude in my community in Vegas in my community in Vegas so ████ up they are ripping up all the grass which ducks ████ eat by the way yeah because they're not allowing that yeah they're Bas oh no sprinklers it's so bad for the environment even though we can build desel Nation plants but who cares so so oh we export so much water by the way back to California from Vegas but no who cares Lake me's drying up that's what we hear so then it's like okay well
6:45 we're going to rip up all this grass by the way we just awarded a $4 million contract no competing bids just we gave it away my HOA did this and and everyone in the community is like your HOA had $4 million yeah you gave it to a buddy and they're going to rip up the grass and yeah replace it with Turf with with golf grass yeah are you losing your grass no the community what's what's the actual reason you said it's something with birds no they're saying it's water it's it's to preserve water cuz Lake me's drying up oh so that people don't water their grass that's that will help right if you have oh it's another one targeting the regular if you have a rock yard it will help the environment Barbara strand's house in ████ Santa Bara by the way literally has like an Atrium a ████ rainforest yeah F yeah
7:35 exactly it's like you know like good Lord you know she's got a zoo on her property but then the rest of us got to ████ suffer so damn yeah that's a classic case of targeting people that aren't going to be able to do anything yeah the middle class always as always can't touch grass if it's plastic so I guess the key in life is to be upper class or lower class don't be middle class yeah middle class you get sandwich when you're lower class everything free when you're high class don't even care what class class do you identify as me oh man I I'm business class hey when I get on the plane I'm the first chair you're the one looking at everybody when they're walking through I'm just like Explorer class Explorer class I'm an upper lower class upper
8:27 lower class upper lower yeah upper lower oh smart like that upper lower class is under lower middle class yeah upper lower is under lower is upper lower under lower upper no say it again Lower middle class is above upper lower class okay got it so it's even further down than you think got it yeah I want to go to that building I've D I've I've driven by it but I I want to go inside it now Joe Joe as a tagger tell me take me inside God damn it I'm not a tagger you ████ what happens what happens whatever it is whatever you are how do you guys do it you you go off the balcony's edge and then you're tagging on the side you're ████ like yeah like we used to we used to get really long belts really
9:18 really long belts like the dicky belts and then just tie it like that and then just hold hang on the side how high above were you yeah just freeway wall I never really did the these cats were doing like ████ no but that one they just broke in and then they went on the balcony no but you're still hanging off the edge of the balcony no it's it's they're just painting they're just on the in yeah it's like they open the sliding window and they painted that thing yeah it's not how long will one tag take if you do one tag it depends as a tager on how many colors how many say three colors three col one name you're saying Joe mama five letters how long would that take you I don't don't know less than 10 minutes if you had a chance if the city was like hey you know what Joe we're going to fix this anyway go ahead and tag whatever you want what would you put I wouldn't tag first of all but that's what you are right just deny
10:08 everything wait what are you again you're he's an Explorer he's an Explorer what would you write then's enough author ████ Walt wh Kami short for kamakazi that's what you would write that was my name and I sometimes did the whole thing I have tags to I have pictures of it I have evidence oh you submitted it okay and I was a part of of this crew that went from that went from the South Bay to Orange County called Dangerous with style oh I know them they're taggers yeah they're cool no [Music] you
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