TOOMER, Graffiti Writer featured in Infamy, of TKO crew
Infamy featured artist Toomer, now a gigantic, bald headed Mexican-American Chicano man of 30 years old, got his start in graffiti in 1988 as a junior high schooler in the gang-ridden neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Toomer describes the neighborhood as “a couple feet from South Central, Watts, and Compton. In the early 1990s, every time I went out my house there was some car driving by and someone shooting out it.” While gangs are territorial, graffiti is about exploring and painting in new places. Toomer remembers that “I’d go south from my house to go to a shopping area and I would get hassled by one gang. If I went north, to go buy some food, I would get hassled by another. I couldn’t really paint in my little town because there was a gang problem, so I would go to other parts of the city. In the early ‘nineties I practically lived in downtown LA and had everything crushed with graffiti.”
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