When pieces stopped running on trains in New York City, graffiti culture took a major setback and lost some of that mystical flavor which made it so special. There was something magical about seeing your name roll up to a platform, always being on the move, going from station to station and being seen all-city. Out here in Montreal, we never had the privilege of constant running metro panels, shit gets buffed on the spot or after 1 run if you’re lucky. In order to replace this sort of moving advertisement, the mook genes kicked in to activate your average MTL citizen’s brain and we took it to another level with bum tagging. You heard me right. Forget freight boxcars or delivery trucks, cause in Montreal… bums is the new trains.
Think about it, what better visibility can a writer have than on a homeless man walking the streets all day, everyday, 365 a year. A bum will most likely be on the busiest street corner asking for change, he’ll walk around all over the city and will even attract attention to himself by acting a fool once he has that one beer too many or has just finished puffing a rock. If it happens that your tag is present on this bum’s jacket through the course of his day, chances are half the city has seen it. Primetime wall spots or roofs don’t travel, delivery trucks only ride during business hours and freight trains are only seen in the fucking forest. Bum Bombing is probably the best medium of exposure nowadays in our innercity environment. Us Montrealers probably aren’t credited for inventing the sport of bum tagging, but I can tell you that we’re taking it to another level. After all, we’re probably the epicenter of mookness in North America and what better way to flex this character trait than through this. Without any further ado, straight from the streets of Montreal City, Mook-Life dedicates today’s post to the art of Bum Bombing
First and foremost, I can already see some of you hippies out there in internet land starting to cry and whine about how we mistreat the homeless. Reality check to you granola-eating barefoot-walking nature lovers: these bums enjoy getting tagged on as much as we enjoy tagging them. They love the attention and treat it like a game, cause for a few moments its as if they’re part of something special. Sometimes they even get an extra beer or a few bucks thrown their way for the advertisement space. Long story short, its all in good fun and they’re down from the start.
Mook-Life is the streets and we represent every single element of it, from the hustlers moving packages on the corner to the homeless crackhead dancing for some quarters. We appreciate their lifestyle and look up to bums, cause we understand the struggle.
When talking about famous bums on the hustle, we can’t avoid the infamous AJ. Always walking up and down St.Laurent Boulevard on any given night, the man is on his daily grind getting that money and never hesitates to let us paint him in exchange for a couple bucks. This guy is probably the most bombed bum in the city, you can find writers from all necks of the woods up on his clothing and he’s bound to cross your path as soon as you walk outta the club.
That SVC silver was not done at the same time as the Killa EF. One night out and you got a hoard of different mooks getting up on AJ at different hours of the night. I once hit a marker tag on his jacket before going to a bar, a few hours later I crossed paths with him again and a bunch of mooks had added their name next to mine in different ink. Prime time real estate. On top of that AJ’s rocking the fly chain, an honorary member of the GSM crew from the Homeless Division.
Young Fost is definitely an up and comer when it comes to the bum bombing discipline. I’ve seen him at work and he’s got the art of convincing bums down to a science.
Graffiti jams is the perfect setting for traditional bum tagging. There’s no better environment to practice this artform than in the midst of hundreds of hungry writers wanting to get their name up. Put alcohol in the mix and it leads you to some of the best bumrushes we’ve witnessed thus far, sometimes getting slightly outta hand.
At the end of the day, my man is stylin’ on all of us with his new bodypaint job and gettin’ cozy with some females.
I remember one of the first Lachine Graff Jams maybe about 6-7 years ago, this guy was having his bachelor party and his friends were driving him around in a pickup truck while making a fool out of him. Lucky for them, they passed right in the middle of the graff jam and the next thing you know this newlywed was covered from head to toe in fume tags.
The homeboy Killa-EF is definitely one of the most up writers on bums in this city. Mook attracts Mook and bum bombing is certainly one of EF’s specialized skills.
Bums aren’t necessarily the only medium for this type of sport. Drunken girls in need of attention will also get it if they venture into the wrong crowd of mooks. It all started with an innocent marker tag on her leg and ended being a swarm of mop tags and chrome all over her person. At least shorty seemed to be having a good time.
Grandma here insisted we tag her shirt cause she was convinced she’d sell it on ebay for a good sum of dinero…
…Little did we know she might probably be right. An all-star Montreal lineup on this shirt if you ask me. Shout Outs to Biatch, the drunkest white boy this side of Jean-Talon!
One of the beauties of bum bombing is that you can do it right in front of the cops and they can’t do shit about it since all parties are consenting most of the time. There’s nothing criminal about doing a marker tag on a homeless man’s face if he’s a willing participant… shit, fuck a legal wall I finna line up some hobos and make me a production woadie!
Michel was probably the most eager bum participant I’ve seen so far. On a sunny St-Patrick’s Day, this man was thrilled to be part of the action and did all sorts of poses for the cameras. A smile on his face and a hundred tags on his body, this man get Mook of the Day.
After a good bombing session on the man, we drink a few beers with him, exchange a bunch of punchlines and pose for pictures for the scrap book memories. Head Mook In Charge Michel doing some crew flicks with the Mook-Life Squad.
April 8th, 2011 at 7:12 am
fuckin dope that [ic of the dude lying in front of the cops takes it hahaha !
April 8th, 2011 at 7:38 am
pas beng beng serieux les pathnays la gee
April 8th, 2011 at 9:10 am
Shout à Mike et AJ gros costi
April 8th, 2011 at 9:45 am
shorty wasnt havin such a good time when she was scrubbin all that paint off the next morning!
April 8th, 2011 at 10:36 am
goddyam!!! exellent post!!!!
April 8th, 2011 at 10:39 am
dope shit
April 8th, 2011 at 11:01 am
bump the tag covered crack head lying on the street
April 8th, 2011 at 11:05 am
This year we finna do some fillins on these bums.
April 8th, 2011 at 11:51 am
yes! just yes!
April 8th, 2011 at 11:53 am
je vous ai tous spot ma bande de sans-coeurs
April 8th, 2011 at 11:54 am
haha fill ins! wadagadlack
April 8th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Bum lounging on street while cops watch – 10\10
Crew shot with grinning bum w\ smoke – 10\10
milf Ambulance Technician trying to understand WTF is goin on – 10\10
April 8th, 2011 at 2:05 pm
awwwyeaaaah! great post. would definitly pay top dollar for granny’s yellow shirt
April 8th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Biatch a white guy ?
I was sure he was half cuban half bulgarian…
April 8th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
HAHA, you guys are pioneers at the art of getin up. if i ever make it to your bueatyfull city im fina bring a blank polyester jacket for some mooks to bless!
respect the hustle!
April 8th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Biatch is from Liberia.
April 9th, 2011 at 7:41 am
i think of all the good times ive wasted having good times…..
April 9th, 2011 at 9:48 am
Haha I feel you tweak.
And bum tagging looks insane. If I get a chance to get-up and see a bum, I’ll approach and ask. If he’s not hostile I can make magic. lol.
April 9th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
yo, im all for twisted behavior and destroying shit but this is not amusing in the least. graffiti culture started out as a form of expression for marginalized youth that literally saved the lives of hundreds of street kids. and now that its a yuppie art trend that way too many people are into, we’re bombing on the most marginalized people in society? grow some balls and paint somewhere where there’s a risk. this is the cheapest, laziest, most bullshit form of graffiti i have ever seen. are you gonna start bombing on black people and jews next? what the fuck!?
April 9th, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Are you calling all blacks and jews bums? This guy is racist.
April 10th, 2011 at 1:57 am
Yo Ari,
are you seriously gonna talk about what writers should be doing? I mean cmon, what we do is hands down a crime, we don’t ask for the space on walls and such, but bum bombing, we know the people, we ask, they like it, they get more money/cigs/food/whatever. It’s a fun time for both people.
Bum bombing is the most legal and charitable type of writing I’ve ever done.
April 10th, 2011 at 4:51 am
Ari, you have a lot of balls to come here and say this shit, this is graffiti, do you think your ugly tag on an hard working immigrant corner store is more appropriate than this? In a bum tag discipline, everyone leaves happy. Not to say the least, this is Mook-Life.com, we glorify all mookness commitements. Obviously, You don’t understand the realm, maybe you shouldn’t browse and lurk here if you havn’t acknowledged the Mook-Life definition underneath the search navigator. If you think graffiti saved the lives of hundreds of street kids, you’re on crack, it just made it worse for the mothers and baby mothers. Graffiti is not a “yuppie art trend that way too many people are into“, were graff legends and we been on the streets. Telling us to grow some balls and paint somewhere where there’s a risk, obviously, you’re not from Montreal, we been trough all those chambers don. Call it cheap and lazy, I’dd like to see you approach a bum, look at him in the eyes and generate real talk with him. Step back, smoke a cigarette and think twice about your life path and morals before saying something stupid. Understand, understood. Yours truly,
Bum-Tagging Legend Killa-EF
April 10th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
@ari:
you sound exactly like one of those yuppie faggots that looks at graff culture from the desk of his “Social Studies” class.
cry me a fucking river dipshit.
The girl getting tagged is also a rapper.
shes also an Ex-Suicide girl, beleive it or not. If anyone remembers her account post thst shit. I just found her model mayhem page;
http://www.modelmayhem.com/618739
April 10th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
YES!!!! i would love to bomb the jews and the blacks!
April 10th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Our existence as North Americans is a HUGE FUCK YOU to the rest of the world. Every time we drink bottled water, wear clothes made by poor kids in Asia, use our cars, drink Coke, jerk of to porn or eat at McDonald’s we are pretty much shitting on this planet and everything that lives on it. Having an opinion about this bum tagging shit is incredibly hypocritical unless you’re a monk or some sort of saint.
P.S, I would totally smash Abbie back when she was looking mighty healthy.
April 10th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Abbie used to use needles. i believe every man that dates her ends up beating the shit out of her. shes a nice girl.
April 10th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p118/lake_swimmer/Suicide%20Girls/?action=view¤t=Abbie.jpg
April 10th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
I’ve been waiting for this post! Nesar is the king of bum bombing!
April 10th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
http://suicidegirls.tumblr.com/post/968327819/gratuitous-sexy-abbie-suicide-in-static
April 10th, 2011 at 6:44 pm
man… you guys use the work mook way too much. its not even funny or clever. mtlwanstazzyo!
April 10th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
We sure use the “work” mook a lot.. and judging by your comment, you are probably one yourself.
April 10th, 2011 at 11:51 pm
lol @ lol comments
April 11th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
i remember grams starting to do a fill-in on that last guy..hahaha
graf jams are good shit
April 11th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Leave it to some Canadians to take something started in the US, to a worthless place, and then claim it for themselves.
April 11th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
This is funny. My homie was doing this shit back in like 97 in San Diego. Im sure its probably been done a trillion times else where to, just like every other graff movement.Anyone ever see a little “pseudo-documentary” called bum fights? Now Im not dissing I think that cat getting all butt hurt is just as fuckin funny. Oh well fuck it go paint on a wall, a bum, your mom, my mom, whatever. I spent my 2 cents.
April 14th, 2011 at 10:11 am
Ari, one question, whats the difference in bombing a bitch or a bum? if its consensual and they enjoy the art\attention, yapasdeproblem le gros, maybe youghta try bieberfever.com for something more in your “ratings” range.