Check the Evidence
June 12th, 2008
It seems the LA Times didn’t bother to check things out a little further. Turns out, after prolific LA graffiti writer Buket was arrested recently, the Times assumed that the person in the opening to his YouTube videos (hitting the 101 in broad daylight) was, in fact, the broad daylight bus-tagger. Instead, the pictures they ran were that of Evidence, one MC in the hip-hop group Dilated Peoples. Evidence merely provided the intro to the video, and somehow the Times ran with it as the mug of the alleged tagger. The online version of the article features a retraction, but I still want to see the original (someone in LA hook it up. Kove, we’re looking in your direction). How this mistake can be made is completely beyond me. What kind of idiot would feature his face in his face in graf videos, unless they’re a well known king like COPE2? And to defame the character of someone by assuming and running the wrong picture smacks of not so much lackadaisical reporting, but flat out failure to get it fucking right.
Source: Hiphopsite
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