Rodriguez continued the careful work on his hip-hop mural in North Philly, a group of girls walked by, stopping to look at one of the artists being immortalized on the wall. The Black teenagers gazed at the black-and-white image of Queen Jo, an up-and-coming rapper from West Philly, holding a microphone and performing for those passing by underneath the overpass at 900 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
“Hip-hop started out poverty and struggle, but rich[ness] in the mind and in the heart and the soul,“ Rodriguez said. “I think people hear the wordand they immediately think about the music. But [it] is only hip-hop when all four elements are together.”, Rodriguez and Strobel explained that they couldn’t find evidence of any mural in America that honored DJs, MCs, breakers, and graffiti artists all at once.
“I literally spent five minutes [asking], Why me? You sure you don’t wanna pick anybody else? Because here in Philly, you wanna make sure all the right people get their just due,” she said. But after Rodriguez explained his and Strobel’s vision, Lambert gave him the OK. The northside wall honors Queen Jo, Rodriguez’s sons posing in a b-boy stance, DJ Nashira, B-boy El Niño , INFA , and DJ Skeme Richards.
This is beautiful. There IS one other wall dedicated to Graf artists/ djs/ breakers / MCs that I know of and it is, or was, called Wyatt's Wall in Hyde Park in Chicago
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