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Throw Ups

The history of the "throw-up" started with writers in the 70's doing quick "bubble-letter" pieces to "get-up" fast.  The first writer and crew to take this form of "bombing" to a new level was, IN-1 & THE TOP CREW.  Their goal was to take over the whole subway system.   They accomplished this  by inventing the two-letter throw-up which helped them become "All-city" kings in the mid 1970's.  Many writers used this concept and took it to a new level.  Originality is also very important and writers could be criticized for having a "whack" "throwie"

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VFR aka VEEFER.

A total throw back from the past.

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CEY ONE. CITY

Early throw up from 1978 with his partners JAY and FY. Photo taken by SUR.167 in flushing Queens New York

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KAP. TPA

Throw up done in Jamaica Queens 1984. KAP was a member of the writing group The Public Animals ( TPA ) that ruled the E & F line in the mid 1980's. He would go on and hit many other lines like the IRT's and BMT's.

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SOE.TNS

A member of the writing group TNS ( They Never Stop) in the 1980's. SOE would kill the insides of the BMTS's with writers like RICH.2, EL.3 and P.BODY.TNS. He would write during the same era as SOE.X-MEN, the two would battle  each other over the use of the name

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EZO.1's

come back  in Spanish Harlem . Photo taken my SUR.167.

SP. TKC

a Queens writer with a very clean throw up style.

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EN.005 aka HAROE

member of such writing groups as TMT and  TC-5 in the early 1980's. This Photo was taken by BOM.5 in back of the apollo th.

SR-ONE

Bombed the BMT's and IND's  from 1984 -1986.

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IC

Photo taken by GIL out side the number 7-yard.