HipHop

[Toks]

Aaaaarrrgggghhhhhh....I've been exposed. Marco it was the best kept secret. I just hope you don't find the Tim Westwood one

[Ian A4size]

good to see he still has his "old skool " jumper on

[Andrew G]

Adrian, can you translate for me please?

[DavidKennett]

Respect Toks

A good find

[Toks]

[quote="marco"]If you want to get back in the game I know a good producer who would work with you to try some stuff out.

[Brian Nolan]

yo- mc Freshski in the bunch

that was very informative - I had no idea that Toks was such a leading light in the formative hip hop scene .... nice one !

[kieran]

Great to see, so what would your younger self make of the fine, responsible, up-standing member of the community you are now? I remember growing up in Kilkenny one of our friends used to take his radio out to the hills to get a good reception for UK radio signals. He went into hiphop DJing and was a bit of a graffiti artist. Ended up doing a hiphop program on Irish radio through Irish! Haven't been in touch since I came to the UK. Left some of my old records with him to look after. Apparently he is still DJing and painting

CORMAC CULLINAN
Cullinan aka DJ Cool C, aka Discipline, through his paintings tries to demonstrate the competitive spirit of Hip
Hop/Graffiti culture. He does this through subjects that reflect his diverse Irish experience rather than traditional
graffiti imagery, while at the same time also trying to come to grips with the transition of Graffiti art, from the
temporary surface of a wall, to the accepted and more long lasting surfaces of portable media.
When one has to think of a piece of art being around for longer, it changes everything from the colours to the
subject matter.We start to consider more potential viewers; we start to think of the art as something that has
to ‘fit’. Consequently Cullinan finds himself applying his graffiti sensibilities but at the same time painting for a
viewer more accustomed to viewing their art on canvas. As a result, we get graffiti pieces disguised as everyday
subject matters in Cullinan’s paintings as he attempts to satisfy his graffiti development, while also attempting to
reach a new, perhapsmore conventional audience.
Often in all aspects of Hip Hop your ability to succeed in competition is what ensures your legacy. Legacy is a
fascinating area to Cullinan and each piece he produces is an attempt to ‘battle’ the next ‘man’ for amore enduring
and lasting legacy.