NEKST MSK
NYC // NEW YORK CITY
The graffiti world lost a giant with the death of NEKST — the prolific street tagger who got his start in the mid 1990s making his way to New York with the notorious Mad Society Kings crew. One of the most omnipresent tags over the past decade or so, his tag somehow seemed to be written a half dozen times on every block in all five boroughs. His foremost skill was not necessarily his artistry but his ubiquity. Most people walking the city streets probably won't know that Nekst, aka Texas native Sean Griffin, died late in 2012, because it would take a decade of fevered scrubbing to remove his work from almost every improbable place he put it. And until that happens, the giant, clunky, ground-level tag in block letters on the corner of Bowery and Spring streets shows that somewhere in New York there will always be a home for those who want to get their name out.
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