This Steel City exhibition was a showcase of 50 paintings of some of Hip Hop’s Icons and has been a 2 year undertaking. The finished paintings were then scanned and laid out in book form with a first run of a 1000 copies. This 9″ X 12″ art book is a self published piece of history that will be sure to impress all hip hop enthusiasts.

Boom Comics released its first issue in December 1991, issue # 0 received great feedback and eventually was distributed throughout Toronto area record stores. Boom Comics began as an outlet for many graphic artists in Toronto’s hip hop scene to do more than just flyers.

Mark Stoddart (www.kurupt.com) I used to love H.E.R In the South Bronx back in 1980, where I first met Hip Hop SHE has grown to be women of many style from Revolutionary Soldiers / gangsta to hypersexual imagery you could hear H.E.R. blasting out of boom boxes from every corner. The abandoned buildings and empty lots [...]

Motion talks about the influence of ‘BOOM!’ comics on her as an artist.

Wild Style Aerosol Art