Alyasha Moore Talks About the Importance of New York Punk, Graffiti, and Hip-hop Culture Colliding, and What Modern-Day Streetwear Means to Him

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Alyasha Moore is an integral player in the story of streetwear. This cultural bridge-builder helped to fuse the worlds of New York City street culture—from graffiti to punk rock, to hip hop—forging a unique aesthetic that has come to dominate fashion (on both the casual and luxury fronts). Streetwear isn’t streetwear without Alyasha Moore and this convo underscores that vital fact.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO. You are about to hear
0:04.6	an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee.
0:09.4	What up Jasmine? What up Peeps, to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes.
0:13.6	We've started from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,
0:18.5	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. There's been a lot of talk about the
0:23.6	early connections of skateboard culture and hip-hop culture as depicted in the movies, kids and the
0:29.4	recent documentary The Streets Are Silent. Can you talk to us about the rap kid and skate kid and
0:35.6	how it merged and diverse as you were coming up? It's a lot less sensationalist. There was a handful
0:43.1	of us at Rhodes' skateboard. It was different than the West Coast because the West Coast already had
0:48.9	a skateboard culture like a 20, 30 years deep skateboard culture. In New York people would just be like
0:55.5	it wasn't like a racial thing either because people didn't know what a skateboard was. It wasn't like
0:59.6	oh that's some white boy shit. They were just like what is that and what are you doing?
1:04.9	We used to put a jump ramp at the ballcourt in Gawannis projects and they would be like
1:11.6	do it again like that's what they filmed clockers at Gawannis and we would skate there every day
1:17.6	and dudes would just feel like the drug deal everybody would just be like that's dope. What is that?
1:21.8	That's some wild shit. It was never like oh that's white boy shit but with the hip hop space
1:27.5	a lot of graffiti writers, the early 70s graffiti writers from New York, skateboarded.
1:35.2	And then we would just skate to the club like it sounds funny but it was such an alien thing. Now
1:42.5	it's like an everyday thing but like I brought my skate well a bunch of dudes just throw a party
1:47.8	in tunnel but I'd like skated the hip hop clubs like we would do we'd meet in Washington Square
1:53.8	Park so everybody would be like MC or be boy and skateboarding all the punk kids like it was the
2:00.2	epicenter of subculture right we'd meet there we'd skate we'd go to the Brooklyn Banks then we'd
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