Graff crews from the 90s

Jae wrote:The 90s was the last era of the real writers, bangers, musicians, everything.... everything is weird and watered down now. But thats life. Ever-changing. Aint not telling whats next. lol.

D-Dogg wrote:"These crews used to write together and created UC-United Crews in the 90's."

No disrespect Cray, but this statement is not true. UC was, and still is, as it still exists, it's own crew. UC is in no way an umbrella crew for any federation of crews.
In the early 90's, (maybe even late 80's?), there was a crew called UFD United For Destruction. They had members all over the IE, but most of their members were based out of Redlands, Fontana, Bloomington, Colton. Most of the core heads lived north of the 10, west of the 215. There were the core members, who were real writers dedicated to the craft of graffiti art, maybe 10 -15 heads, and then there were dozens of other members who were general taggers who just wanted to destroy and mostly don't write anymore. By 1992 and 1993 UFD was one of the major forces in IE graff. Another crew that was a huge force was PI Pure Insanity. PI also had heads all over the IE, but were based mainly in San Bernardino and Colton. Just like UFD, PI had a core of dedicated artists, and then lots of taggers. In 1993 these two crews battled. It was a two-part battle, a "one-wall" piecing battle, and a street bombing battle. The piecing battle took place on a wall near the Orange Show in San Bernardino. The battle was covered by the IE's first ever graffiti magazine, called "Hot Spots" put together by some of the old heads from DBI. The magazine has photos of dozens of writers posing in front of the wall while they paint it. (I can post pictures if you want).
The bombing battle took place, and I might be mistaken on this, up n down Valley blvd. and Baseline st. When the battle was over, the judges (a 3rd party crew) said that PI won. Many members of UFD would contest this decision, since they claim that PI was helped on the bombing part of the battle by a crew that they were affiliated with called MB (now MBx3). Basically, they claim the MB's went out hitting up PI during the street battle, dramatically adding to the amount of ups PI got.
The pre-agreement for the battle was that whichever crew lost had to drop their crew name. UFD respected the rules of the battle and dropped the name UFD. The core dedicated members, maybe 10 people or so, later started a new crew simply called "U crew", a nod to the former Ufd title. They hit it up like a happy face, like a U with long flared out eyes, like a side ways version of this symbol =). The U crew eventually evolved into being called "United" crew, a reference to "United" For Destruction. Then U crew started hitting up different words for the "U", such as Urb Crew (urban), and later the crew came to be known simply as UC.
UC later destroyed the IE. They are regarded as one of the first IE crews to focus more on doing fill-ins and large bombs, rather than just being a tagger crew. They really did alot of work all over the IE and into LA in the mid to late 90's. They basically raised the bar of the graff game in the IE. The most recognized lineup for those years went something like this: Prom Jones Deap Chek Skul Duck Bam(WEC) Demo Keso(YGW,RUH) Sol XS Debt Feevo(DOC) Ray.
DHS and DCR were their own newer crews that started getting up around 1998. In 1999 UC recruited about 5 youngsters who wrote for DHS and DCR. So in that sense, their is a small handful of guys with dual membership in DHS/DCR and UC now, but they didn't become part of UC until the last year of the 90's. Although none of that had anything to do with the formation of UC or the name UC. All of those connections were made well after UC had established itself as its own entity for a very long time. There was one guy who was from DOC and was one of the original members of UC and there was another guy who was from YGW n RUH and helped start UC. In San Bernardino RUH used to be clicked up with CFK, there was people who were in both of those crews at the same time. And CFK was clicked up with CSE, they were both based in the West Side of San Bernardino. That's about the only connections I can make between UC and some of the other crews that were listed. But to say that all of these crews came together to start "United Crews" is not accurate. There might be 4 or 5 degrees of separation, but that's not one crew.

Like I said, no disrespect, just trying to get the story straight.

TM.BESEK.ONER wrote:

D-Dogg wrote:"These crews used to write together and created UC-United Crews in the 90's."

No disrespect Cray, but this statement is not true.  UC was, and still is, as it still exists, it's own crew. UC is in no way an umbrella crew for any federation of crews.
In the early 90's, (maybe even late 80's?), there was a crew called UFD United For Destruction. They had members all over the IE, but most of their members were based out of Redlands, Fontana, Bloomington, Colton. Most of the core heads lived north of the 10, west of the 215. There were the core members, who were real writers dedicated to the craft of graffiti art, maybe 10 -15 heads, and then there were dozens of other members who were general taggers who just wanted to destroy and mostly don't write anymore. By 1992 and 1993 UFD was one of the major forces in IE graff. Another crew that was a huge force was PI Pure Insanity. PI also had heads all over the IE, but were based mainly in San Bernardino and Colton. Just like UFD, PI had a core of dedicated artists, and then lots of taggers. In 1993 these two crews battled. It was a two-part battle, a "one-wall" piecing battle, and a street bombing battle. The piecing battle took place on a wall near the Orange Show in San Bernardino. The battle was covered by the IE's first ever graffiti magazine, called "Hot Spots" put together by some of the old heads from DBI. The magazine has photos of dozens of writers posing in front of the wall while they paint it. (I can post pictures if you want).
The bombing battle took place, and I might be mistaken on this, up n down Valley blvd. and Baseline st. When the battle was over, the judges (a 3rd party crew) said that PI won. Many members of UFD would contest this decision, since they claim that PI was helped on the bombing part of the battle by a crew that they were affiliated with called MB (now MBx3). Basically, they claim the MB's went out hitting up PI during the street battle, dramatically adding to the amount of ups PI got.
The pre-agreement for the battle was that whichever crew lost had to drop their crew name. UFD respected the rules of the battle and dropped the name UFD. The core dedicated members, maybe 10 people or so, later started a new crew simply called "U crew", a nod to the former Ufd title. They hit it up like a happy face, like a U with long flared out eyes, like a side ways version of this symbol =). The U crew eventually evolved into being called "United" crew, a reference to "United" For Destruction. Then U crew started hitting up different words for the "U", such as Urb Crew (urban), and later the crew came to be known simply as UC.
UC later destroyed the IE. They are regarded as one of the first IE crews to focus more on doing fill-ins and large bombs, rather than just being a tagger crew. They really did alot of work all over the IE and into LA in the mid to late 90's. They basically raised the bar of the graff game in the IE. The most recognized lineup for those years went something like this: Prom Jones Deap Chek Skul Duck Bam(WEC) Demo Keso(YGW,RUH) Sol XS Debt Feevo(DOC) Ray.
DHS and DCR were their own newer crews that started getting up around 1998. In 1999 UC recruited about 5 youngsters who wrote for DHS and DCR. So in that sense, their is a small handful of guys with dual membership in DHS/DCR and UC now, but they didn't become part of UC until the last year of the 90's. Although none of that had anything to do with the formation of UC or the name UC. All of those connections were made well after UC had established itself as its own entity for a very long time. There was one guy who was from DOC and was one of the original members of UC and there was another guy who was from YGW n RUH and helped start UC. In San Bernardino RUH used to be clicked up with CFK, there was people who were in both of those crews at the same time. And CFK was clicked up with CSE, they were both based in the West Side of San Bernardino. That's about the only connections I can make between UC and some of the other crews that were listed. But to say that all of these crews came together to start "United Crews" is not accurate. There might be 4 or 5 degrees of separation, but that's not one crew.

Like I said, no disrespect, just trying to get the story straight.

Mothra wrote:

Jae wrote:The 90s was the last era of the real writers, bangers, musicians, everything.... everything is weird and watered down now. But thats life. Ever-changing. Aint not telling whats next. lol.

I can still remember when writing all changed and went bad. I think somewhere I still have the Daily Report (or maybe by then it was The Daily Bulletin) where the front page of the paper was one of the heavens on the 10 near Upland (the Euclid off ramp one) with big pink TDK throwups on it when the whole big beef between YGW/OCP/TDK/TWK started. Like 91 or 92 maybe? Before that graffiti was just graffiti. After that shit became serious and everyone started cracking down just like D-Dogg said.. Felony charges, your parents having to pay for your fines by law, etc. Then guns happened and taggers were just gangsters wearing raver clothes, which eventually everyone traded in for Dickies/Ben Davis pants and white shirts. The whole art aspect of it went right out the window and it was all about who was the biggest badass around whether he could write or not.


D-Dogg if youre still around.. Wasnt MB somehow affiliated with TDK or were they just another Fontana crew?? Think they started around 92/93?? Always had respect for those guys cause their styles were really down.

TM.BESEK.ONER wrote:Ya there were a couple CFK's in Pomona but they were from Pasadena..in 93 swex from Cfk moved to the I.e and brought cfk with him.