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I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

— Swizz Beatz

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

— Olivier Megaton

George Murphy tagged that name 'Butch' on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.

— Cesar Romero

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

— Mike Mills

People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.

— January Jones

When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.

— Jeff Buckley

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

— Banksy

I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.

— David Labrava

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.

— JR

It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.

— Clinton Sparks

I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.

— Keith Haring