KETism
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My good friend Alain “KET” Mariduena (who happens to be the creator of the best magazine hip hop ever had: STRESS) was brought up on charges related to graffiti in NY. This dude is a NY original subway painter and went on to become very influential as a voice and consultant for the culture. He launched Complex magazine for Ecko as well as helping to keep Ecko “Getting Up” video game on point. He established a publishing company and put out some amazing books on the culture. http://www.fromheretofame.com
He’s a great dad and strong positive Latino figure encouraging youth. He’s facing serious time for aesthetic crimes on circumstantial evidence. Major hard time for graffiti that he was not seen committing… There’s a major crime going on in your city within 10 blocks of you right now, graffiti is the least of our worries…Most often “graffiti cleanup” is used as a fake ass way for politicians and law enforcement to SEEM as though they are cleaning up CRIME. To make it worse the politicians in NY have it in for Ecko because of their graffiti video game. So half of this battle is simply because Ket acted as a consultant to Ecko on a few projects:  |
