RIP STAY HIGH 149
sad to wake up to the news legendary writer wayne roberts has died having battled cirrhosis of the liver for some time
as a pioneer of the emerging graffiti movement during the early seventies when his tags covered entire train cars, stay high 149 has left an indelible mark on nyc and graf culture – an innovative writer, he was the first to adopt an icon rather than a typographic tag as a nom de guerre; his “smoker” was a subversive spin-off of the logo developed for the 1960s classic spy thriller television show “the saint” – his “voice of the ghetto” tag began as an anonymous declaration of existence on behalf the city’s dispossessed and downtrodden
his story as chronicled in ‘voice of the ghetto’ is a must-read for any graffiti history buff
