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“Hip Hop Graffiti Midwest Ryder Style” What do New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA: and Minneapolis, MN all have in common? No not them twins, but a culture that both Hip hop as a culture and graffiti as an art form. From old world of Picasso; No not an old white guy with gray hair, the one from the movie “Beat Street” 1984. If you’re a true Hip hop head then you know it’s the first movie showing off both rap and dying art form called Graffiti. From a standpoint that often times, it’s an illegal activity so old heads are trying to make it legit. How to you capture something that was born in the night on subway trains of New York City. Well beside catching the metro transit, and buying a sketchbook, getting arrested and going to jail. How about you just wait and see some of the bomb photography by Benitez Rosario Matias of the Entertainment Companies, LLC. (TEC). A tool of the trade, “ I was to young for the jerry curl, but thank God I feel in love with Hip Hop” says 26 yr old born and raised in Minneapolis, MN native. I couldn’t help it,, my brothers where all just old enough to run the streets and win ever break dancing competition there was I had my own LL COOL James…Matias, and Juan Salone and their friends showing of their dance movies to the girls except mom wasn’t going to have me run the streets hanging out at “Pops Arcade” downtown Minneapolis. The first club I hit in downtown was the old “Graffiti’s”, so you know I couldn’t get enough. I’ve grown up, but I remember when I feel in love with Hip Hop. It was watching it on in movies like “Beat Street”, “Breakin” and “Breakin 2” I even have a cousin named Rico. I’m a blkrican, (African American Puerto Rican) but sine my Spanish isn’t that good, the first time I was allowed to grow out my hair I had a High Top Fade. I was more Bobby Brown then Kid N Play, but I found my way to be a kid again. I captured what so many started in did on the weekends and around 2 am finding and documenting Minnesota’s hip-hop graffiti culture. The twin cities has been cleaning it up, even the murals that show the creativeness of some are own Picasso’s. Everyone can remember North Sides Broadway, the old Super Value before it was torn down. The tags in the warehouse districts, and south sides murals over by Powder Horn. I even hip up St. Paul’s train track tags. With sites are yet to be seen in St. Paul and surrounding suburbs where is the art left to be seen? It’s coming!!! Summer 2006 “The Matias Project Vol. 1” will attempt to capture it before it’s gone. Who’s keeping it alive? North High (Alumni 98) Minneapolis Arts program, the mural at on South High and a Broadway after school program. My company has designed sites for R&B Diva Jami (www.Jami-online.com) designed in graffiti style. I took all the pictures for new bad boy of dance hall Jaw Breaker “JB” (www.Jawbreaker.com ) against the graffiti/murals in North Minneapolis. I’ve been the photographer for Xtreme Magazine. (www.xtreme-entertainment..com ) and there’s more to come from twin cities born native of management TEC Chief of Operation (COO). If you’re ready?, This is just a preview for HipHopClub.biz don’t hate in the land of 10,000 lakes. Stay tuned to get your fix in 2006 www.TrippleSul.com or on myspace.com under “taz_Benitez” or if you know of some art that needs to be captured holler at cha boy!!! Who’s still doing it?
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